2015 AMCC Women's Volleyball News
The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced teams that have earned the AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2015-2016 season, and the Mount Aloysius, Penn State Behrend, and Pitt-Bradford volleyball teams each earned the honor.
Pressing the message that early detection of breast cancer is the best road to a cure, Mount Aloysius College helped the Windber Medical Center’s Joyce Murtha Breast Care Center spread the word.
All institution sport teams which compete for an AMCC championship may select one member from their team who displays good sportsmanship throughout the season to be a member of the All-AMCC Sportsmanship Team.
Appearing in its second-consecutive NCAA tournament, the Franciscan volleyball team lost to Juniata College for the second-straight year in three sets 14-25, 10-25 and 11-25.
Medaille College senior setter Simmone Talford has been named the 2015 AMCC Women's Volleyball Player of the Year.
Several AMCC teams have earned postseason bids to continue their seasons and will look to compete at the national level.
Franciscan University took an efficient 3-0 route to victory over Medaille College to earn their second straight AMCC women's volleyball title.
Link had a huge week for the Lady Barons, leading the team to its second-straight AMCC title. In the senior's first match of the week, Link became just the second player at FUS to crack 1,000 kills with 12 against Mt. Aloysius. She then needed just four kills to become the all-time kills leader at FUS and posted a season and career-best 21 kills against Penn State Altoona in the conference semifinals, just one kill shy of FUS' single-game record. She finished the week with 11 kills against Medaille in the championship match to finish the week with 44 kills while hitting .258 and posting 4.00 kills per set. Link now has 1,040 kills in her career at FUS. Defensively, she hit double figures in digs in each set and finished the week with 43, including a season-best 22 digs against Penn State Altoona. She averaged 3.91 digs per set. Link was named to the 2015 AMCC all-tournament team
Top seeded Medaille College will take on #3 Franciscan University in the championship match of the AMCC women's volleyball tournament on Sunday.
In the first round of the AMCC women's volleyball championship tournament, #3 Franciscan University defeated #6 Mt. Aloysius College, 3-0, while #5 La Roche College defeated #4 Penn St. Behrend, 3-0.
Cleversley had a huge week for the Lady Mavs and led them to a 2-0 finish in the AMCC to secure the AMCC #1 seed and the right to host the AMCC Championship. Cleversley started out the week by leading the Lady Mavs in kills (14) in a five-set come from behind road win over Pitt Bradford. She then followed that up with a team-high 16 kills in a four set win over Penn State Altoona in the winner take all season finale on Medaille's Senior Day. Cleversely totaled 36 kills (3.33 kills per set) on the week, 37 digs (3.56 digs per set) and had a .338 hitting percentage in the two pivotal AMCC matches.
Medaille College (17-7, 7-2 AMCC) has earned the top seed in what looks to be a very entertaining championship tournament that doesn't appear to have a weak link.
Muldoon racked up 40 kills in a 2-1 week for the Lady Mavs. She had 12 kills and a .385 hitting percentage as Medaille swept previously unbeaten AMCC foe Penn St.-Behrend on Tuesday. She then added 28 more as Medaille split with Pitt-Greensburg and La Roche on Saturday when Medaille hosted an AMCC Quad Match. Muldoon leads the AMCC with 3.18 kills per set, and 254 kills while she is second with a .315 hitting percentage.
The Pitt-Bradford women's volleyball team hosted its annual Dig Pink Night on Wednesday, October. 22.
Penn State Altoona women’s volleyball closes out its home regular season schedule with an AMCC showdown against Penn State Behrend this Saturday, October 24 at 1:00 PM in the Adler Gym.
Penn St. Altoona MH Tori Shingler has been named the ECAC South Division III Women's Volleyball Player of the Week for the week ending October 18.
