ALL-CONFERENCE: Bruins’ Toedtemeier, Reeves Get All-NWC Honorable Mention

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(NEWBERG, Oregon) - With record-setting seasons behind them, setter Ali Toedtemeier and libero Patti Reeves of George Fox University have received honorable mention for the 2010 All-Northwest Conference Volleyball Teams as voted on by the league’s nine coaches and announced today by the conference office.

Toedtemeier, a senior from Beaverton, Ore., totaled 914 assists in 26 matches and 94 sets, averaging 9.71 assists per set. She also had 258 digs (2.74 dps), 20 kills, 18 service aces, and 19 blocks (one solo, 18 assisted). Her assists total was the 10th-highest in a single season at George Fox. She ranked third in the conference in assists and 15th in digs.

During the season, Toedtemeier had two matches with over 50 assists, and eight more with over 40. She set a career high with 55 assists in a 3-2 road loss to Pacific Lutheran University on Oct. 30, establishing a new George Fox record for most assists in a match since NCAA volleyball went to a 25-point rally scoring system. One night earlier, she had 38 assists in a 3-0 victory at the 24th-ranked University of Puget Sound, with her average of 12.67 assists per set in that match setting a new Bruin record under the 25-point system as well. She was named the Bruin Athletic Association Women’s Athlete of the Week and was honorable mention for the Northwest Conference Volleyball Student-Athlete of the Week for Oct. 25-31 after those two outstanding performances.

Toedtemeier finished her four-year career with 2,008 assists, ranking ninth on the all-time George Fox list while becoming the ninth Bruin in history to reach 2,000 or more. She also collected 31 kills, 636 digs, and 21 blocks (one solo, 19 assisted).

Reeves, a junior college transfer from Everett, Wash., via Bellevue College, quickly established herself as one of the best defenders and passers ever at George Fox. In a 3-1 win over Whittier College in the Cal-Lu-fornia Tournament in Thousand Oaks, Calif., she recorded 44 digs, the second-highest single-match total in Bruin history. All-American Sharon Barnett set the record of 52 in a 3-2 win at Western Oregon University on Nov. 14, 1998, during the days of side-out scoring. Reeves’ total was the Bruins’ best in the rally-scoring era, and her average of 11.0 digs per set is probably a new record for any era (further research is needed).

Posting double figures in digs in 22 of 24 matches in which she played and 85 total sets, she had three other matches with 30+ digs and nine more of 20+. She finished the year with 500 total digs, the second-most in a season to Barnett’s 631 in 1998, when the Bruins played 39 matches and went to the NAIA National Tournament. Her average of 5.88 digs per set shattered the previous season mark of 5.43 by Linzi Stolsig in 2005. She was second in the conference and 24th nationally in digs per set (prior to NCAA playoff statistics), leading the Bruins to 34th place in the national statistics for digs (19.20 per set).

Reeves also had five kills, 15 assists, and 31 service aces this year, recording four aces in a match four times. Her average of 0.36 aces per set ranked fourth in the conference.

George Fox went 11-15 overall and finished in a three-way tie for fourth place in the conference with a 6-10 league mark in 2010. It was a roller-coaster year for the Bruins, who never won or lost more than three in a row at any point in the season.

Kaimi Rocha of league champion Whitworth University was named the NWC Player of the Year, and Pirates head coach Steve Rupe received the NWC Coach of the Year award.

The complete list of First Team, Second Team, and honorable mention All-Northwest Conference honorees is available on line at www.nwcsports.com/sports/wvball/2010-11/news/allnwc.

Source: George Fox University georgefox.edu