Three Players Earn 2010 All-Pac-10 Honors
November 30, 2010 | Women's Volleyball
Nov. 30, 2010
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Three USC women's volleyball players have earned 2010 All-Pac-10 Conference honors, Commissioner Larry Scott announced Tuesday. Alex Jupiter, Falyn Fonoimoana and Lauren Williams earned All-Pac-10 honors while Kendall Bateman received All-Pac-10 honorable mention. Fonoimoana was also named Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and named to the All-Freshman Team.
Along with Fonoimoana, Alexis Olgard and Natalie Hagglund earned Pac-10 All-Freshman Team honors while Sara Shaw received All-Freshman Team honorable mention.
Fonoimoana is the fifth Trojan all-time to earn Pac-10 Freshman of the Year honors and first since 2006. Helping USC to its 28th NCAA Tournament appearance, she arrived in Los Angeles as the No. 1 recruit in the nation and earned a starting spot. She has posted three double-doubles this season and has had 16 matches with double-digit kills. Fonoimoana averages 3.28 kills per set with a .253 hitting percentage. Defensively, she averages 0.45 blocks and 1.50 digs per set.
Jupiter, now a two-time All-Pac-10 selection, has 449 kills (4.36 kps) this season with 35 service aces, 257 digs, 68 blocks and 533.5 points. She has 15 double-doubles this season with 12 of them coming in Pac-10 Conference play. She was the first player in USC history to earn AVCA National Player of the Week honors twice during a season. She was named national player of the week and earned Pac-10 Player of the week Honors on Sept. 6 after earning most outstanding player honors at the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic in Hawaii where she posted 49 kills (4.45 kps) and 61.0 points (5.55 pps) with wins over Hawai'i, New Mexico and Michigan State.
Williams earns her first All-Pac-10 nod after posting 240 kills (2.38 kps) and 95 blocks (0.94 bps). She is fourth in the nation with a .426 hitting percentage and earned all-tournament honors at the Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Volleyball Classic after recording 31 kills with a .473 hitting clip in three wins.
This is the first time that USC has placed three All-Pac-10 players since 2005 and the most players (four) to receive All-Pac-10 and/or honorable mention since 2003 when the Women of Troy had seven players receive such honors.
USC opens the 2010 NCAA Tournament this weekend by hosting New Mexico, Long Beach State and San Diego in first and second round action at the Galen Center.
