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- 11/19/2009
Liz SchnelleBy Steven Wright
ADA — Senior middle hitter Liz Schnelle has been named an American Volleyball Coaches Association First Team All-American for the second consecutive season.
This also marks the third straight time she has earned All-America honors, as Schnelle was named AVCA Third Team All-America as a sophomore in 2007.
- 11/18/2009
Schnelle / DecimaBy Steven Wright
ADA — Seniors Liz Schnelle and Liz Decima have both been named to the 2009 Volleyball Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference team in voting conducted by the OAC faculty representatives.
Schnelle earned Academic All-OAC, while Decima earned Honorable Mention Academic All-OAC.
For Schnelle, this is the third consecutive season that she has been named Academic All-OAC, as she has already been named CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine First Team Academic All-District earlier in the year.
- 11/14/2009
Liz SchnelleBy Steven Wright
| Box Score | Tournament Site |
HOLLAND, Mich. - The No. 5 Ohio Northern volleyball took Set 1, but Hope (Mich.) defeated the Polar Bears 3-1 in the Great Lakes Regional Championship Saturday evening at the DeVos Fieldhouse.
The Polar Bears end their season with a 30-4 record, while the Flying Dutch improve to 33-3.
Volleyball Highlights
• NCAA all-divisions record 32 consecutive winning seasons
• 25 NCAA Tournament Appearances in 28 years of the tournament, posting a 33-25 record
• 1 NCAA Finals appearance, 2 NCAA Semifinal appearances and 5 NCAA Quarterfinal appearances
• 21 OAC Regular Season Championships and 17 OAC Tournament Championships since the OAC began sponsoring volleyball in 1984.
• 22 All-Americans
• 5 Academic All-Americans
• 8 OAC Players of the Year
• OAC Coach of the Year nine times
• 52 First Team All-OAC honorees
• 36 First Team Academic All-OAC honorees
• Head coach Kate Witte has won 488 matches at ONU while compiling 15 OAC Regular Season Titles and 12 OAC Tournament Titles in her 18 years at the helm.
• ONU has won nine consecutive OAC Regular Season Championships