W. VOLLEYBALL NOTEBOOK
By Daily Bruin Staff
May 8, 2001 9:00 p.m.
She’s the one
Junior outside hitter Kristee Porter was selected as the
ASICS/Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year. Senior middle blocker
Elisabeth Bachman was awarded with honorable mention All-American
honors by the magazine.
Porter, who was also named to the AVCA All-America first team,
set a Pac-10 and UCLA record with 741 kills in 2000.
One in nine
Senior middle blocker Elisabeth Bachman is one of nine players
invited to train with the USA Women’s National Team in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“This is an essential step in the national team
pipeline,” U.S. National Head Coach Toshi Yoshida said.
“If these players continue to work hard they will have an
excellent chance to continue their relationship with USA Volleyball
with the 2003 World University Games and the 2004
Olympics.”
In her career as a Bruin, Bachman was the first UCLA player and
fifth Pac-10 player in history to record both 1,200 career kills
and 600 career blocks.
Reaping the rewards
Elisabeth Bachman received a NCAA postgraduate scholarship. The
scholarship of $5,000 was awarded to only 26 Division I
athletes.
To qualify for a postgraduate scholarship a student-athlete must
maintain a GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale and perform with distinction
on the varsity team in the sport in which the student-athlete was
nominated.
Moving on
Assistant Coach Burt Fuller has accepted the head coaching job
at Utah State. Fuller, who worked mostly with middle blockers, was
an assistant with the UCLA program from 1994-2000.
Fuller’s previous coaching experience includes time with
the USA Maccabiah Team, which he coached to a gold medal in the
World Games in Israel in 1997, and the Paul Mitchell women’s
team on the Bud Light 4-player beach tour in 1994.
New Bruins
The recruiting class for 2001 includes 6-foot-1 middle blocker
Heather Cullen (Newport Harbor HS), 6-3 middle blocker Brynn Murphy
(Francis Parker HS), 6-1 outside hitter Brittany Ringel (Trinity
Valley HS in Arlington, Texas) and 5-5 outside hitter/defensive
specialist Chrissie Zartman (Bishop Montgomery HS).
Until an ACL injury, Cullen was regarded as one of the top
prospects in the U.S. going into the summer. After she recovers
from surgery, Cullen will be ready to compete for playing time as
freshman.
Murphy is a two-time All-CIF player and Junior All-American.
Ringel is a Junior All-American who has the potential to be an
impact recruit.
Zartman is one of the top young beach volleyball players in the
world and looks to replace the graduating Michelle Quon in the
Bruins’ back row. Zartman’s mother, Sharkie Boehnert,
was a member of Head Coach Andy Banachowski’s first national
title squad in 1972.
Changing the rules
The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport , which is
responsible for making NCAA and NAIA women’s volleyball
rules, voted that the scoring format will be changed to rally
scoring.
Matches will be decided by the best three-out-of-five rally
scoring format, in which games are played to 30 points in games one
through four and to 15 in the fifth. All games will still be
decided by a two-point margin of victory.
Currently, matches are decided by the traditional sideout
scoring to 15 points with rally scoring in the tie-breaking fifth
game. Rally-scoring was implemented by men’s teams in the
2001 season.
Notes compiled by Christina Teller, Daily Bruin Senior
Staff.
