2012 SAC Volleyball Headlines
Wingate University 2013 graduate Grace Krauser has received a $7,500 postgraduate scholarship from the NCAA.
Three volleyball student-athletes from the SAC have been selected to the Capital One Academic All-America Team, a distinction which recognizes both academic and athletic achievement.
Wingate University senior middle blocker Grace Krauser has earned the prestigious Elite 89 Award, officials announced at Wednesday night's NCAA Division II Volleyball Championship banquet. Krauser wins the award for the second time in her career. She also won the honor in 2010.
The Southeast Region champion Wingate University Bulldogs took the opening set from top-ranked and five-time defending national champion Concordia-St. Paul Thursday afternoon, but the Golden Bears rallied for a 3-1 win to advance to the NCAA Division II Volleyball Championship national semifinals.
Wingate University redshirt junior right-side hitter Anna Hilton has been named a third-team All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA).
The second-seeded Wingate University Bulldogs swept fourth-seeded Tusculum College Saturday afternoon, winning the NCAA Southeast Regional title for the second time in three years.
Wingate defeated Newberry and Tusculum ousted Armstrong on Friday, setting up a showdown between the rivals for the NCAA Division II Volleyball Championship Southeast Regional title. Get recaps of both matches here.
The SAC will account for three of the four semifinalists at the 2012 NCAA Division II Volleyball Championship Southeast Regional, as Wingate, Newberry and Tusculum each won quarterfinals on Thursday. Get recaps from each match here.
A total of eight volleyball student-athletes have earned All-Southeast Region accolades on the AVCA and Daktronics All-Region Teams, which were recently announced.
Five teams from the South Atlantic Conference have earned bids to the 2012 NCAA Division II Volleyball Championship, accounting for more than half of the Southeast Region field, the association announced Sunday night.
Wingate continued its reign over SAC volleyball on Sunday, capturing its seventh-straight Food Lion SAC Volleyball Championship title in a thrilling five-set match over Tusculum. Scores went 26-24, 21-25, 25-14, 23-25 and 15-12 in the deciding fifth.
Wingate junior outside hitter Anna Hilton has been named the 2012 SAC Volleyball Player of the Year, headlining the list of conference awards which was released on Thursday.
Tusculum junior Ashley Sarmiento has been named the 2012 SAC Volleyball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, an award which recognizes her achievements on the court, in the classroom and as a campus leader.
Five teams from the SAC have been ranked in this week’s NCAA Volleyball Southeast Region poll, the last release before Sunday’s NCAA Championship selections.
Following the final week of the 2012 SAC volleyball regular season, Wingate sophomore Lexi Potter and Tusculum junior Ashley Sarmiento have been picked as the conference’s weekly award winners, it was announced on Monday.
In a race that came down to the regular season's final day, Lenoir-Rhyne clinched the outright SAC football championship on Saturday by defeating Catawba. Get recaps from all the day's action at Week 11 Roundup.
