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November 30, 2007
Six Dominican players named 2007 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes
Kansas City, MO. — Six Dominican University of California women's volleyball players have been named 2007 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes, it was announced today by the NAIA offices.
Nominated by each institution's head coach, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and have achieved junior academic status to qualify.
Juniors Zoe Bagala, Cristy Roberts, Darcel Sanders, and Amanda Wagner were named Student-Athletes for their dedication in the classroom. Captains Amanda Deely and Bridget Gengler, the team's only two seniors, also earned the honor. Read the list of all 272 qualifying student-athletes here.
November 29, 2007
Domincian's Pecora featured in Napa Valley Register
Napa, Calif. — California Pacific Conference Player of the Year Gabby Pecora is featured in today's issue of the Napa Valley Register. The article is available online, at the sports section of www.napavalleyregister.com, here.
November 12, 2007
Dominican 2007 season recap
San Rafael, Calif. — The Dominican University of California women's volleyball team won their final two matches of the season against Menlo College and Bethany College to finish with a 14-9 overall record. The finished conference play with a 12-2 conference mark and as Co-Champs of the California Pacific Conference with rival Holy Names University. A tie-breaker process was necessary to determine who earned the conference's lone automatic berth to the NAIA Region II playoffs, hosted by #1 Fresno Pacific University. The tie-breaker went to the third step to determine the Cal Pac representative.
Dominican and Holy Names split their two matches this year and had identical records against their Cal Pac opponents, cancelling out the first two tie-breaker possibilities. The third tie-breaker criteria is that of regional ranking, which was based on the November 5 poll prior to Dominican playing their final two matches against Menlo and Bethany. That poll went in Holy Names' favor because they had played Menlo and Bethany earlier in the season.
Dominican head coach Roger Goodwin said, "We're obviously disappointed with the regional outcome but I'm very proud of their accomplishments that the team made this year, especially after graduating 5 seniors/4 starters from last years team. I knew we had a lot of talent going into the season, but I wasn't sure how quickly they would develop."
Sophomore outside hitter Gabby Pecora was voted the Cal Pac Player of the Year and setter Brooke Swingle was named the Cal Pac Freshman of the Year. Both players hail from Santa Rosa and played for the Absolute Volleyball Club based in Marin.
November 12, 2007
Pecora, Swingle lead Cal Pac All-Conference honors
took the conference’s Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards, resepectively. Allen McCreary, head coach of Co-Champ Holy Names, was named the conference’s Coach of the Year. Menlo College's Christa Hewett earns Libero of the Year for the second consecutive season.
Sophomore Lorel Grandegarnered an honorable mention.
Swingle was also named Cal Pac Setter of the Week for the season's final week for her 59 assists against Menlo and 49 assists against Bethany.
November 9, 2007
Dominican wins at Bethany, clinches Cal Pac Co-Championship
Scotts Valley, Calif. — Dominican used 11 service aces to finish out the season with a 4-1 win over host Bethany University on Saturday night. Freshman Brooke Swingle
set the Lady Penguins 49 times as Dominican made 55 kills. With the victory, the Lady Penguins finish the season with a 14-9 overall record. The Lady Penguins end conference play with a 12-2 mark and are California Pacific Conference Co-Champions with Holy Names University.
