Kansas City volleyball media guide Season Preview Grand Canyon, Texas – Pan American and Utah Valley, as well as holdovers New Mexico State, Idaho and Seattle. Grand Canyon will be ineligible for the postseason until 2017 during their NCAA Division I transition period. Kansas City will open the 2013 season at the Arkansas Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., on Aug. 30-31 with matches against host Arkansas, New Mexico and Northwestern State, before heading to College Park, Md., for the Maryland Invitational #1 on Sep. 6-7 where they will squareoff with host Maryland, Penn and LIU-Brooklyn. The following week, the ‘Roos will welcome in Wake Forest, Eastern Illinois and Presbyterian to Kansas City for the Kangaroo Klassic, a round robin tournament at the Swinney Recreation Center. The Kangaroos remaining nonconference schedule, meanwhile, is highlighted by the home opener with Big 12 foe Kansas on Sep. 3, where Posey spent 12 seasons as an assistant, while the ‘Roos will also make trips to SIU – Edwardsville on Sep. 17 and Southeast Missouri State on Sep. 18.
“Beginning our third season at UMKC, we thought it was important to seek a more competitive non-conference schedule,” Posey added. “Traveling to Arkansas and Maryland for tournaments and hosting Kansas in early September will definitely bump up our competition level.”
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Idaho junior middle blocker Alyssa Schultz was the pick for WAC Preseason Player of the Year. The Vandals placed the most players on the preseason All-WAC team with three, while Bakersfield, New Mexico State and Utah Valley had two apiece. The 2013 WAC Volleyball TourJoining Shultz on the preseason nament, hosted by Grand Canteam are teammates Katelyn yon, will be held Nov. 25-27, at Peterson and Taylor Wilkinson, GCU Arena in Phoenix, Ariz., Bakersfield’s Debora Araujo and will include the top six eliand Fernanda Gonçalves, New gible teams in the regular-season Mexico State’s Lauren Loerch standings and Desiree Scott, Utah Valley’s Brookelyn Hall and Lauren PRESEASON POLL Stringham, Mackenzie Phelps of Grand Canyon, and Martina Kansas City volleyball sophoSamadan of Seattle U. more middle hitter Emma Hagedorn was named to the New Mexico State received Preseason All-WAC Team, while seven of the first-place votes the ‘Roos were picked to finish with Idaho earning the other sixth in the nine team confertwo. The Aggies earned 62 ence. total points, followed by Idaho with 58. Utah Valley was picked Last season, the Parkville, Mo., to finish third with 44 points, native was named to The Sumfollowed by Seattle U in fourth mit League All-Freshman Team, with 39 points, just ahead of while also earning a spot on the Bakersfield in fifth with 38 and Honorable Mention All-League Kansas City in sixth with 35 squad. On Oct. 22, meanwhile, points. Texas-Pan American, Hagedorn was named The Sum- Grand Canyon and Chicago mit League Defensive Player State rounded out the poll with of the Week. On the year, she 21, 17 and 10 points, respecstarted 27 matches, registering tively. 235 kills with a .142 hitting percentage, 29 digs and a team-high
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