UW-Whitewater's Wildish Leads All-WIAC Women's Volleyball Team

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RELEASED: Tuesday, November 12, 2002

UW-Whitewater's Wildish Leads All-WIAC Women's Volleyball Team

Madison, Wis.--University of Wisconsin-Whitewater senior outside hitter Angie Wildish was named the 2002 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Player of the Year, headlining the 12-member All-WIAC Women's Volleyball Team, which was recently selected by the league coaches.

Wildish helped the Warhawks to the 2002 regular season title and the WIAC Tournament championship and a spot in the NCAA Division III Tournament. The regular season title was their third straight and 10th in school history. The Warhawks have also registered their eighth straight season of 30 or more wins (31-4).

Wildish leads the league with 5.08 digs per game, while ranking second with 4.04 kills per game and fourth with .54 service aces per contest. She holds the school career record with 2,264 digs, while ranking second on the all-time list with 4,398 attempts and third with 1,557 kills. Wildish established a school record with 686 digs last year and set a school mark with 38 digs against Washington (Mo.) on November 21, 2001.

Wildish was an All-WIAC First Team and All-Defensive Team selection last year after earning honorable mention honors during the 2000 season. She becomes the second Warhawk to win the league's player of the year honor in the four-year history of the award. Allison Erickson captured the award last season.

Wildish is joined on the first team by teammates Kristin Dettman and Katie Monhart. Dettman leads the league with 12.70 assists per game and ranks eighth with .47 service aces per game. Her assist average ranks 10th in the NCAA Division III. She holds the school career record with 5,307 assists and earlier this season against Wittenberg (Ohio), dished out 69 assists, the third highest total in team history. Dettman was an All-WIAC First Team pick last season and a honorable mention selection in 2000.

Monhart ranks seventh in the WIAC with 3.56 kills per game. She is second on the team with 352 digs (3.42 per game) and fourth with a .224 hitting percentage.

UW-River Falls, the 2002 WIAC regular season co-champion, landed Krystle Brune, Melissa Tvrdik and Karen ZumMallen on the first team. Brune, who earned All-WIAC First Team accolades last season, ranks second on the squad with 3.26 kills per game and is fourth with 63 total blocks (.50 per game). She also registered her 1,000 career kill earlier this year.

Tvrdik leads the league with a .345 hitting percentage, while ranking seventh with 1.02 blocks per game. She was a honorable mention selection last year.

ZumMallen participated in all 131 games for the Falcons this season and ranks sixth in the conference with 4.10 digs per game and ninth with 3.42 kills per game. She also has 1,365 kill attempts on the year, which is the sixth highest mark in WIAC history.

UW-Stout's Brooke Viegut and Tanille Zenner directed the Blue Devils to the second 30-win season (31-6) in the 32-year history of the program. The Blue Devils compiled a 33-6 record during the 1994 campaign. Viegut ranks third in the conference with 3.86 kills per game and fourth with 4.39 digs per contest. She is second on the squad with 44 service aces (.36 per game) and third with 74 total blocks (.61 per game). Zenner is second in the league in both hitting percentage (.343) and blocks (1.28 per game), while ranking eighth with 3.56 kills per game.

UW-Oshkosh had a pair of individuals earn first team recognition. Amanda Delgadillo leads the league with 4.12 kills per game, while ranking fifth in both service aces per game (.53) and digs per game (4.29) and ninth with a .258 hitting percentage. Cassie Uttech ranks third in the conference with .56 service aces per game and 10th with 3.42 kills per game.

UW-Eau Claire's Brooke Wozniak helped the squad to 24 wins this year, the highest total since the 1999 season (26-9). She played in all 124 games for the Blugolds this season and ranks third in the league with a .328 hitting percentage and fourth with 3.82 kills per game. Wozniak was an honorable mention pick a year ago.

UW-La Crosse's Elissa Hansen helped the Eagles to their eighth straight season of 20 or more wins (25-10). She ranks fifth in the WIAC with 3.70 kills per game and is third on the team with 40 service aces (.35 per game).

Named to the honorable mention team were: UW-Eau Claire's Julie Bobbe and Andrea Hemple, UW-La Crosse's Annalee Erdmann and Diane Radzajewski, UW-Oshkosh's Amber Petersen, UW-Platteville's Joanna Carlson, UW-River Falls' Nina Petersen, UW-Stevens Point's Alyssa Mader, UW-Stout's Laura Bogenschutz, UW-Superior's Kim Dunbar and UW-Whitewater's Lindsay Tomasovich.

The league also named a four-member All-Defensive Team for the 2002 season. Individuals receiving recognition included: UW-La Crosse's Jenny Randall, UW-River Falls' Jennifer Braun, UW-Stout's Erin Heger and UW-Whitewater's Michelle Stanislawski. Randall ranks eighth in the league with 3.95 digs per game, while Braun is third (4.58), Heger is ninth (3.88) and Stanislawski is 20th (3.07).

UW-River Falls head coach Patti Ford was named the Coach of the Year by the league coaches, marking the third time in her career she has won the conference honor. Ford also won the award in 1999 and 1995. She guided the Falcons to a 31-8 overall record this year, including a school record-tying 16-match winning streak and third WIAC championship in the last seven seasons.

2002 All-WIAC Women's Volleyball Team

First Team
Name, School, Year, Position, Hometown (High School)
Krystle Brune, UW-River Falls, Junior, Outside Hitter, Oakdale, Minn. (Tartan)
Amanda Delgadillo, UW-Oshkosh, Junior, Outside Hitter, West Allis (Hale)
Kristin Dettman, UW-Whitewater, Senior, Setter, Pulaski
Elissa Hansen, UW-La Crosse, Junior, Outside Hitter, West Bend (West)
Katie Monhart, UW-Whitewater, Senior, Outside Hitter, Hartland (Arrowhead)
Melissa Tvrdik, UW-River Falls, Junior, Middle Hitter, Farwell, Minn. (Minnewaska Area)
Cassie Uttech, UW-Oshkosh, Sophomore, Outside Hitter, Watertown
Brooke Viegut, UW-Stout, Junior, Outside Hitter, Abbotsford
Angie Wildish, UW-Whitewater, Senior, Outside Hitter, Menomonee Falls
Brooke Wozniak, UW-Eau Claire, Junior, Middle Hitter, Stanley (Stanley-Boyd)
Tanille Zenner, UW-Stout, Freshman, Middle Hitter, Athens
Karen ZumMallen, UW-River Falls, Senior, Outside Hitter, Grand Rapids, Minn.

Honorable Mention
Julie Bobbe, UW-Eau Claire, Junior, Outside Hitter, Minocqua (Lakeland)
Laura Bogenschutz, UW-Stout, Junior, Setter, Baxter, Minn. (Brainerd)
Joanna Carlson, UW-Platteville, Sophomore, Setter, Forreston, Ill.
Kim Dunbar, UW-Superior, Sophomore, Outside Hitter, Proctor, Minn.
Annalee Erdmann, UW-La Crosse, Junior, Outside Hitter, Sauk Rapids, Minn. (Sauk Rapids-Rice)
Andrea Hemple, UW-Eau Claire, Senior, Setter, Belleville
Alyssa Mader, UW-Stevens Point, Sophomore, Outside Hitter, Kimberly
Amber Petersen, UW-Oshkosh, Sophomore, Middle Blocker, Milwaukee (Nicolet)
Nina Petersen, UW-River Falls, Sophomore, Outside Hitter, Byron, Minn.
Diane Radzajewski, UW-La Crosse, Senior, Middle Hitter, Willow Springs, Ill. (Lyons Township)
Lindsay Tomasovich, UW-Whitewater, Senior, Middle Blocker, Eau Claire (Regis)

All-Defensive Team
Jennifer Braun, UW-River Falls, Junior, Libero, Morristown, Minn. (Waterville-Elysian-Morristown)
Erin Heger, UW-Stout, Sophomore, Libero, Chaska, Minn.
Jenny Randall, UW-La Crosse, Freshman, Libero, White Bear Lake, Minn.
Michelle Stanislawski, UW-Whitewater, Sophomore, Libero, Milwaukee (More)

Player of the Year: Angie Wildish of UW-Whitewater
Judy Kruckman Scholar-Athlete: Kristin Dettman of UW-Whitewater
Coach of the Year: Patti Ford of UW-River Falls

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