Kari Galen

Oakland

Sep 17 (Wed)

6 p.m.

Position:
Middle
Height:
6-1
Class:
Senior
High School:
Waubonsie Valley
Hometown:
Aurora, Ill.

2012: Played in 19 matches, starting four times … Fourth on the team in blocks per set … Had a season-high seven kills against Jacksonville State … Played the final three sets of the MAC Tournament Championship against Northern Illinois, sparking the team with a kill and three blocks … Played in both NCAA Tournament matches, recording a kill and a dig against No. 1 Penn State … Had five blocks twice this season, once against UAB and once at Central Michigan.

2011: Named Academic All-MAC ... Played in 30-of-31 matches, starting 29 times … Also saw action in 106 of the 112 total sets … Ranked fourth in the MAC and 79^th in the country with a .337 attack percentage, the sixth-best season in program history … Led the team with 99 blocks and ranked fourth with 176 kills, 1.66 per set … Also had a team-high 14 solo blocks, double anyone else on the team … Had two double-digit kill matches, including a remarkable 14 kills on 17 swings against Bucknell … Also had 11 kills against Bethune-Cookman … Posted a career-best 10 blocks in her second match of the year against Eastern Kentucky … Had at least five blocks in 10 different matches … Named MVP of the USF Invitational on the strength of her performance against Eastern Kentucky and also earned MAC East Division Defensive Player of the Week honors for her efforts … Named all-tournament at the Bucknell Invitational.

2010: Academic All-MAC Honorable Mention ... Played in 29 matches, starting 24 times … A threat at the net, averaging a team-best 0.78 blocks per set … Her 64 total blocks were second on the team, adding 10 solo rejections … Had a career-high 10 kills against Wright State, tying her career-best with six blocks in that match … Also had six blocks at Miami to go with six kills … Posted five blocks in matches against St. Francis (Pa.), Pittsburgh, and Buffalo.

2009: Played in 12 matches as a freshman, starting once…Her .250 hitting percentage ranked second on the team…Added three blocks in limited time…Had a perfect attack percentage on three attempts in a win over Howard, posting a career-high three kills and adding her only dig of the year…Posted blocks against Howard, Robert Morris, and Central Michigan ... Received Academic Achievement Award for posting a 4.0 grade point average during the fall semester.

High School: Three-year letterwinner and team captain as a senior at Waubonsie Valley High School ... Named all-conference in the Upstate 8 league as a senior and was a Daily Herald All-Area honorable mention player ... All-Academic as a senior ... Led team to first conference championship in 10 years in 2007 and helped the team to a regional championship in 2006 ... Named a Prepvolleyball.com Senior Ace as one of the top 250 recruits in the country.

Personal: Full name is Kari Ann Galen ... Daughter of Jim and Carol Galen ... Has one sister, Hannah ... Born July 17, 1991 ... Majoring in secondary education integrated language arts ... Played club volleyball for Sports Performance Volleyball Club, a squad that was JVDA National runner-up in 2009 in the 18's division ... Was JVDA Mizuno National Champions in the 17's division for Sports Performance.


Season  SP-MP     K    K/S    E    TA    Pct    A   A/S   SA  SA/S   SE  DIG   D/S  RE   BS   BA   TB   B/S  BE BHE Points Pts/S
2009..  16-12    11   0.69    3    32   .250    1  0.06    0  0.00    0    1  0.06   0    0    3    3  0.19   3   0   12.5  0.75 
2010..  82-29    93   1.13   49   264   .167    2  0.02    0  0.00    0   16  0.20   1   10   54   64  0.78   6   0  130.0  1.59 
TOTAL.  98-41   104   1.06   52   296   .176    3  0.03    0  0.00    0   17  0.17   1   10   57   67  0.68   9   0  142.5  1.45