Sara Sikorski

Height:
5-9
Class:
Senior
High School:
Henry Ford II
Hometown:
Sterling Heights, Mich.
Prev School:
Henry Ford II

2002: Played in 22 matches, starting nine ... saw action in 54 games ... ranked second on the team with 422 assists and 7.81 assists per game ... had a career-high 57 assists vs. Akron ... posted 56 assists in a win over Tulane ... had 90 digs on the season with a season-best 15 in that Tulane match ... hit .364 (5-1-11) in that contest ... named to the MAC Honor Roll for the second consecutive year.

2001: Named to the MAC Honor Roll ... earned BGSU's Hustle Award ... played in 12 matches, starting one ... saw action in 15 games on the season ... had a season-high five kills and 38 set assists in the win at Oakland ... also set career standards in all three blocking categories in that match (1 solo block, 4 block assists, 5 total blocks) ... had a career-high two service aces vs. the Golden Grizzlies ... also saw extended action in the home win over Buffalo, with 23 assists ... had double-digit assist totals vs. both Central Michigan (14) and Cleveland State (10) ... had three digs in both the Oakland and CMU matches ... averaged 6.80 assists per game on the year.

2000: Shared the BGSU Coaches Award in her first year ... played in 22 matches, making a pair of starts ... had 228 assists on the year to go with 63 digs ... stepped into the starting role against both Central Florida and Florida International ... in her first collegiate start, at UCF, set season highs with 52 assists and 14 digs ... had 34 assists and her only three blocks of the season vs. FIU ... eight kills included a pair vs. UCF ... had 10 digs in wins over Cincinnati and Akron ... had double-digit assist totals eight times, including in each of her first five collegiate matches ... averaged 7.15 assists per game in those five contests.

High School: Earned four letters at Henry Ford II High School ('00) ... earned All-Macomb County honors three times for the Falcons ... named the team's MVP ... earned All-District First-Team honors in 1999 after garnering second-team laurels the year prior ... two-time team captain ... was the Source News Player of the Week ... also earned three letters in basketball and one in soccer ... National Honor Society member ... Student Council treasurer ... graduated Magna Cum Laude ... earned the Michigan Merit Scholarship ... like teammates Nadia Bedricky and Bridget Protas, played club ball for the USA Michigan Volleyball Club.

Personal: Sara Ann Sikorski was born May 17, 1982 ... daughter of Frank Sikorski and the late Bernice Sikorski ... has an older sister ... psychology major with a 3.71 cumulative GPA at BGSU ... minoring in sociology ... is in the BGSU Honors College ... vice president of BGSU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee ... president of Omicron Delta Kappa ... member of Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma honor societies ... spent 40 days in Europe in summer of 2001.

SIKORSKI[apos]S YEAR-BY-YEAR STATISTICS:

YEAR     MP-MS/GP   K-E-TA  PCT.   AST   SA DIGS  BS-BA
2000     22-2/46    8-5-31  .097   228    2  63    0-3
2001     12-1/15    6-4-18  .111   102    4  13    1-5
2002      22-9/54   19-10-73 .123  422    6  90    1-9
Career   56-12/105 33-19-122 .115   752  12  166    2-17

SIKORSKI[apos]S CAREER HIGHS:

Kills:        5 (MR: vs Tulane 9/21/02)
Hitting %:    .364 vs. Tulane 5-5-1 9/21/02
Assists:      57 at Akron 9/28/02
Aces:         2 twice (MR: vs Illinois Chicago 9/21/02)
Digs:         15 vs. Tulane 9/21/02
BS:           1 at Oakland 9/25/01
BA:           4 at Oakland 9/25/01
TB:           5 at Oakland 9/25/01