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The
Greyhound Volleyball team reached the Commonwealth Conference Championship
match for the eighth consecutive year and the squad was the top seed
in the 2003 Eastern College Athletic Conference South Championships for
the third straight season.
The Hounds posted a 26-10 record and has won over 20 matches in each
of the last eight seasons. Eleventh-year head coach Shelley Bauder had
two players earn All-Conference Honors and two players named to the American
Volleyball Coaches Association All-Mid Atlantic Team.
Senior setter Amy Lawrence (Gettysburg, PA/Delone Catholic
HS) was named to the All-Conference First Team for the third
consecutive season. Lawrence led the Greyhounds with
1,010 assists and 334 digs, while also adding 47 service aces, 78 kills,
a .251 hitting percentage and 29 blocks. Lawrence completed
her career as the school record holder in career assists with 4,682
and in career service aces with 229.
Senior outside hitter Kim Zipf (Wyomissing, PA/Holy Name HS) was
named to the All-Conference Second Team and the American Volleyball Coaches
Association Honorable Mention Mid-Atlantic Region Team. Zipf contributed
421 kills, 18 assists, 325 digs, a .272 hitting percentage, 22 service
aces, and 19 blocks. Zipf set the school record in kills
with 1,516 career kills, and she is second all-time in career digs with
1,574.
Sophomore middle hitter Lindsey Siracusa (Yardley, PA/Pennsbury
HS) led the team with 120 blocks and 398 kills. She had a
.273 hitting percentage, 127 digs, and 41 service aces. Senior middle
hitter Shannon McNeil (Reading, PA/Reading Central Catholic
HS) led the Hounds with a .290 hitting percentage and added
243 kills, 125 digs, 66 blocks, and 50 service aces. Senior Sara
Hollenbacher (Reading, PA/Reading Central Catholic HS) contributed
161 kills, a .272 hitting percentage, 118 digs, 40 blocks, and 18 service
aces.
Junior outside hitter Christina Wallace (Bethlehem, PA/Bethlehem
Catholic HS) led the team with 75 service aces and also contributed
357 kills with a .193 hitting percentage, 309 digs, and 34 blocks.
Senior Mary Kate Cordisco (Bethlehem, PA/Notre Dame HS) added
207 kills, a .168 hitting percentage, 51 service aces, 99 digs, and
34 blocks. Cordisco was featured in Sports Illustrated's Faces
in the Crowd after setting an all-division NCAA record with 25 consecutive
service points in a match against Washington College on the first day
of the season. Freshman Valerie Korsak (Coplay, PA/Whitehall
HS) contributed 42 kills with a .241 hitting percentage, 357
assists, 13 service aces, 96 digs, and 11 blocks.
Senior defensive specialist Andrea Frankenfield (Emmaus, PA/Emmaus
HS) added 223 digs and 38 service aces, while Senior Alissa
Bucsi (Bethlehem, PA/Bethlehem Catholic HS) was third on the
team with 314 digs in the libero position. Freshman Ashley
Hugo (Bath, PA/Northampton HS) added 22 digs and 8 service
aces in her debut season.
Moravian had eight student-athletes named to the 2003 Middle Atlantic
Corporation Fall All-Academic Team including Lawrence, Zipf, Frankenfield, Bucsi, McNeil, Hollenbacher, Cordisco and Wallace.
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