JoAnna Papageorgiou

Height:
5-11
Class:
Senior
High School:
Pleasant Valley
Hometown:
Rock Island, Ill.
Prev School:
Kirkwood CC

2000: An All-MAC honorable-mention selection ... named to the Verizon Academic All-District IV First Team ... hit .277 on the year, with 3.35 kills and 1.24 blocks per game ... her blocking average is the 10th-highest in school history, while her total of 114 block assists ranks ninth in BGSU annals ... led the team in service aces, with a total of 24 ... finished fifth in the MAC in bpg, ninth in hitting pct., and 15th in kills per game ... named to the MAC Honor Roll ... the league's co-Offensive Player of the Week on Nov. 13 ... had a triple-double vs. Ball State, with 15 kills, 18 digs and 10 blocks ... had double-digit kill totals 20 times, including a BG-career-best 23 in a win over Northern Illinois ... shared BG's Most Improved Player Award, as well as the Academic Achievement Award ... her 15 matches of double-digit digs included 18 vs. both BSU and Kent State ... hit .542 (13-0-24), the best of her BGSU tenure, in a win over Buffalo.

1999: Named to the GTE Academic All-District IV Third Team ... saw action in 26 matches, making 15 starts ... started the first 12 matches of the season, before missing the next five contests due to injury ... returned to the starting lineup for the final three matches of the year ... played in a total of 73 games ... hit .225 with 2.25 kills, 1.63 digs and 0.90 blocks per game ... her 164 kills included six matches of 10 or more ... had a career-high 17 vs. Providence ... had four matches of double-digit dig totals, including 13 vs. both Colgate and PU ... had a career-best six blocks vs. both Loyola (Md.) and Mississippi State ... hit .480 (14-2-25) at Western Michigan ... had 19 solo blocks among her 66 total rejections ... had three solo blocks twice.

1998: Played in 20 matches, starting three ... saw action in a total of 40 games ... her 25 kills included six in the second victory over Toledo ... hit .417 (6-1-12) vs. the Rockets in that match ... had 54 digs on the year, including 12 against Marshall and 10 vs. Akron ... had five blocks vs. the Thundering Herd.

Junior College: Played at Kirkwood (Iowa) Community College in 1997 ... earned second-team all-region honors ... hit .362 as the team finished fifth in the nation and first in both the region and the district ... had 2.77 kills and 1.74 digs per game ... Kirkwood went 45-7.

High School: Earned two letters at Pleasant Valley (Iowa) High School ('97) ... earned all-state honorable mention as a senior in 1996 ... led the Mississippi Athletic Conference in both service aces and blocks that year, breaking the school's single-season record in the latter category ... earned Second-Team All-MAC honors and was named to the league's all-academic team ... also named the team's top offensive player and was a co-MVP in her final season ... earned three letters in track, competing in the high jump and hurdles ... lettered in basketball as a junior ... Quill and Scroll member ... attended Alleman High School for one year prior to Pleasant Valley.

Personal: JoAnna Papageorgiou was born August 24, 1979 ... daughter of Dimitri and Kathy Papageorgiou ... has an older sister and a younger sister ... biology major with minors in chemistry, psychology and Spanish ... had a solid 3.90 GPA at BGSU.

PAPAGEORGIOU'S YEAR-BY-YEAR STATISTICS (AT BGSU):

YEAR     MP-MS/ GP     K-  E-  TA   PCT.  AST    SA  DIGS  BS-BA
1998     20- 3/ 40    25- 25-  85   .000   11     1   54    3- 11
1999     26-15/ 73   164- 63- 448   .225   16    10  119   19- 47
2000     30-30/108   362-113- 898   .277   38    24  289   20-114
Career   76-48/221   551-201-1431   .245   65    35  462   42-172