Bowling Green State University Athletics
Rommeck To Join USA National Training Team
January 11, 2002 | Volleyball
Jan. 11, 2002
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University volleyball season came to an end in November, but the honors keep rolling in for Falcon senior Caty Rommeck.
Rommeck has been selected to the USA Women's National Training Team, and will head to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Rommeck will leave for Colorado on Monday, Jan. 21, with training set to begin two days later.
The team will consist of 12 players picked from a tryout held in San Diego, Calif., after the Final Four in mid-December. Rommeck will be training with players that include collegiate All-Americans Tayyiba Haneef (Long Beach State), Lizzy Fitzgerald (Wisconsin) and Angela Knopf (Colorado State).
The USA Women's National Training Team members will be competing for a spot on a squad that will be touring Japan in late May. Others vying for that touring team will include players from the last U.S. National Team as well as from U.S. Professional Volleyball.
"I am thrilled for Caty to have this opportunity," said BGSU head coach Denise Van De Walle. "To train at the Olympic Training Center with Toshi (coach Toshiaka Yoshida) and the other players selected is a chance of a lifetime.
"She will be playing and training at the highest level possible. It is a dream come true for her. I think it's absolutely awesome."
In 2001, her senior season, Rommeck earned All-Mid-American Conference First-Team honors for the second consecutive year, and also was named to the All-Mideast Region Team. She became just the fourth Falcon player to earn all-region honors in the history of the program, and the first in a decade.
Rommeck capped off her successful three-year career at BGSU by leading the Falcons to a third consecutive 21-win season. She led the league by a wide margin in kills per game (4.59) and was second in the league in blocks per game (1.38). Rommeck also finished among the MAC leaders in hitting percentage (.304, eighth), and she was second on the team in digs (2.66). Rommeck just missed cracking the league's top 15 in the latter category.
The Falcons finished the 2001 season with an overall record of 21-8, and BGSU won the MAC's East Division with a 12-6 league slate. The Falcons had tied for the East Division title in 2000. BGSU has posted an overall record of 63-29 (.685) over the last three years, including a MAC record of 36-18 (.667).
