SIX
PIONEERS EARN NORTH ALL-CONFERENCE
HONORS
Barberee named North Division Coach-of-the-Year
RICHARDSON,
TX—The Lone Star Conference announced
the 2003 Volleyball LSC North Division All-Conference
awards and six Texas Woman’s University
student-athletes were honored. Senior Marci Brinkman (Carrollton, TX/Newman
Smith HS) and junior Jenny Madrid (Panama City, Panama/Hill
College) were named to the North Division First Team while senior Heather
Smith (Chino Hills, CA/Ayala HS) was selected to the Second
Team. Junior’s Courtney Lewis (San Antonio, TX/ Panola College) and Paz
Diaz (Truth or Consequences, NM/N.M. Military Institute) and sophomore Carley
Messmer (Garland, TX/UT-San Antonio) were all tabbed Honorable Mention
All-Conference. The six honorees are the most by any school in the All-Conference
list.
Head
coach Shelly Barberee, who just finished her
first year at Texas Woman’s
University, was named the LSC North Division Coach-of-the-Year. She led the
Pioneers to a 16-18 overall record, a share of the North Division title with
an 8-2 record and a birth in the conference tournament for the first time since
1997. Barberee helped lead TWU to a 12-match win streak in the month of October
and finished the season by winning 14 of their last 18, giving the Pioneers
their highest win total since they went 24-13 in 1997.
Madrid
led the team in kills on the year with 387 and
finished second on the team with 37 service aces
and 99 total blocks. She turned in a season-high
22 kills vs. Central Oklahoma on Oct. 18. Brinkman totaled 336 kills and
led the team with 117 total blocks and 39 service aces. She recorded five
double-double performances and finished with a season-high 18 kills vs.
Incarnate Word on Sept. 19. Smith finished second with a career-high 347
kills and also chipped in with 200 digs, 46 blocks and 28 aces. She also
had five double-doubles in kills and digs and turned in a season-high 21
kills vs. Central Oklahoma on Oct. 18. Messmer recorded a team-leading
1,023 assists and added 294 digs, 23 aces and 108 setter-kills. She recorded
a triple double vs. Fort Lewis on Sept. 5 with 13 kills, 30 assists and
11 digs and also turned in a career-high 61 assists vs. Central Oklahoma
on Oct. 18. Diaz played 126 games at libero and led the team with 465 digs,
good enough to place her fifth in the conference. She turned in a season-high
30 digs vs. Fort Lewis on Sept. 5. Lewis stepped up into the starting lineup
after the first quarter of the season and finished 2003 with 237 kills
and 344 digs. She totaled a team-leading 12 double-doubles and recorded
a season-high 16 kills vs. Texas A&M-Kingsville on Oct. 11.
2003 LSC NORTH DIVISION VOLLEYBALL
ALL-CONFERENCE AWARDS
FIRST TEAM
OH Kelsey Kosick Cameron; MB Tori Walker Central
Oklahoma; S Stacey Meek Central Oklahoma; MB
Amy Wallace Texas A&M-Commerce; RSH
Jenny Madrid Texas Woman’s; MB Marci Brinkman Texas Woman’s; OH Morgan Meyer
Cameron
SECOND TEAM
OH Joni Martin Midwestern State; S Whitney Johansen Midwestern State; S Vicki
Ibarra Cameron; LIB Jenny Head Cameron; OH Kate Pence Midwestern State; OH
Olivia Franceskini Southeastern Oklahoma; OH Heather Smith Texas Woman’s
HONORABLE MENTION
S Carley Messmer Texas Woman’s;
MB Nicole Reinhart Cameron; MB Emily Whiteley
Central Oklahoma; RSH Melissa Minus Midwestern
State; OH Becky Wilson Southeastern Oklahoma;
OH Chantae Weathers Texas A&M-Commerce; OH
Courtney Lewis Texas Woman’s;
OH LaTasha Jacobs Texas A&M-Commerce; MB
Davina Goodman Texas A&M-Commerce; LIB
Paz Diaz Texas Woman’s
SPECIAL AWARDS
Offensive Player of the Year: Kelsey Kosick, Cameron
Defensive Player of the Year: Jenny Head, Cameron
Co-Freshmen of the Year: Vicki Ibarra, Cameron, and Olivia Franceskini, Southeastern
Oklahoma
Coach of the Year: Shelly Barberee, Texas Woman’s
