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CU Volleyball wins school's first team National title Netherton joins 1,000 Kill Club to seal win Click on headline for full story, photo(s) By Chris Megginson, CU Sports Information Director KISSIMMEE, FL - They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. For Campbellsville University senior Renee Netherton, a championship is worth 1,000 kills. Netherton eclipsed the 1,000 kill mark in her final career match and turned a 23-23 third set into a 25-23 NCCAA National Championship with back-to-back kills to sweep top-seed Mount Vernon Nazarene, 3-0, Dec. 5 at the Kissimmee Civic Center. "I'm a little nervous to take my uniform off, because once I do it's over," Netherton said. "I'm excited we went out so strong. It's such a great feeling to be able to picture that last hit in my head. That's going to stay with me forever." Netherton, who was named an NCCAA First Team All-American, finished the match with nine kills - her high for the tournament. She entered the match needing seven kills to reach 1,000. Six of her nine came in the final game. To add to the milestones, the win was a record 38th in a season for the CU volleyball program and Campbellsville's first-ever national championship for any team at any level. "It's a great swan song to a great season. We're excited to win the first one for the school. Regardless of it being the NCCAA or the NAIA, it's hard to win," CU head coach Randy LeBleu said. "The girls had a will to go out with a bang. The closeness of them the last month has been great." Campbellsville put away nine aces to jump out to a 2-0 lead in the match. Senior Whitney Haynes led the team with three aces, while Christiana Sindelar had two and four others each had one. "We served really well. A couple of girls really stepped up on their serves. We kept the ball away and took their middle out. We knew if we could keep it just to the outside hitters, we could shut them down," said LeBleu, who was named the NCCAA National Coach of the Year. CU utilized its outside, as Samantha James started outside after Brooke Marcum went down in the semifinal. James led CU in the final with 12 kills, three blocks and an ace. Tournament MVP Shannon Cahill had seven kills and 17 digs. "Shannon had a good tournament. Everyone here saw her defense this week and that when a ball needs to be put down, she'll put it down," LeBleu said. "But I can't say enough about Caroline Martin. She played great defense through the tournament, throwing her body around to dig balls that should have been points. She was also very energetic - a real floor leader for us at setter." Martin, who had 14 digs in the final, had 36 set assists in the championship, bringing her six-match tournament total to 223 and an average of 11.15 per set. She, along with Cahill, was named to the All-Tournament team. In a tournament of defensive highs for CU, Haynes closed out her four years with a career-high 23 digs in the championship. She also had seven kills. Freshman Caitlin Dresing had 12. Also receiving honors after the match was senior Jovana Koprivica of Serbia, who was named an NCCAA Academic All-American. How did they get there? Campbellsville was the only team to sweep through the 10-team field and only two of its six matches went more than three sets. The tournament was divided into two pools with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the semifinals December 5, 2009. CU started the tournament Dec. 3 with a 3-0 win over Pensacola Christian College (25-10, 25-12, 25-6) with Netherton, Haynes and Sindelar leading the way with seven kills each. Martin stood out with five kills, 24 assists, 12 digs and two aces. Haynes had four service aces. The Lady Tigers closed out the day that night with a 3-1 win over Malone University (25-23, 20-25, 25-21, 25-21), a team that took them to five sets in the season opener Aug. 28. James, a sophomore from Louisville, had 10 kills off the bench, including seven in the fourth set to seal the win. Two of her attacks came to break a 16-16 tie and start a 9-5 rally for CU. Cahill led the team with15 kills in the match, while Martin had 42 assists and Dresing had 28 digs. Friday morning, CU faced Spring Arbor University in the early game, downing the Cougars, 3-0, (25-22, 29-27, 25-13) to clinch first place in Pool B. Marcum, a LaGrange, Ky., native, led CU with nine kills, while martin had 32 assists and a team-high 18 digs. CU closed out pool play with a 3-0 win over Southwestern Assemblies of God, the only team to beat the Lady Tigers in pool play at the 2008 NCCAA National Tournament in Denver. Martin, a junior setter from Curitiba, Brazil, led the way again for CU, posting a career high 45 set assists for a three-set match. Her total through the tournament grew to 145 in just 13 sets. She also led the defense with 19 digs, followed by Dresing's 17. Saturday morning was the biggest match of the day to CU, facing a Bryan College team that had a never-die attitude. Bryan was thought to be eliminated in the Mid-East Region semifinal Nov. 21, but received an at-large bid to nationals and rallied through pool play as runner-up in Pool A. Campbellsville took a 2-0 lead on Bryan (25-20, 25-21), but the Lions dominated the Lady Tigers, 25-15, in the third set. Campbellsville's defense held strong though, collecting 109 digs in the match, led by Dresing's 30 and Martin's 25 - both one below their career highs. Cahill added 20. The offensive surprise was Sindelar, a sophomore from Napoleon, Ohio, who had a career-high 16 kills to lead the offense and change momentum to clinch the fourth set, 25-23, and the match. This story was posted on 2009-12-08 13:25:21
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