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Bowling Green State University Athletics
1999 Volleyball Roster
Nov 7 (Fri)
6 p.m.
Susie Norris
- Position:
- Left-Side Hitter
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Hopewell-Loudon
- Hometown:
- Bascom, Ohio
- Prev School:
- Hopewell-Loudon
2002: Saw action in 30 matches, starting 29 ... ranked second on the team with 3.27 kills per game and first in digs with 3.52 per game ... had a season-high 23 kills vs. Duke and 26 digs vs. Indiana State ... had 20 double figure matches in both kills and digs on the season ... had a season-best .519 (15-1-27) in a win vs. Maine ... recorded 16 double-doubles for the season, which included a 21-kill, 17-dig performance versus Ohio ... named MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week (Sept. 11) ... was also named to the Verizon Academic All-District squad and the MAC Honor Roll.
2001: An Academic All-MAC selection ... also named to the MAC Honor Roll ... saw action in 28 matches, starting 25 ... had a team-high average of 2.84 digs per game ... her total of 287 digs placed her second on the squad ... had 14 matches with double-digit dig totals, including a season-high 19 vs. Maryland ... had 18 on two occasions, including the MAC Tournament semifinal ... her 234 kills on the year included 11 double-digit efforts ... had a season-high 19 kills vs. Ball State in the regular-season meeting ... that was part of a stretch of five consecutive double-digit kill totals ... hit a season-best .529 (9-0-17) vs. Winthrop ... had a career-best six service aces in season-opening win over Tennessee ... the MAC Player of the Week on Oct. 29 after hitting at least .320 with double-digit kill figures in each of the previous week's three matches.
2000: In her first year on campus, set school records in both digs and digs per game ... named to the MAC's All-Freshman Team ... was BGSU's Defensive Player of the Year (digging) ... averaged 4.28 digs per game, ranking second in the MAC and 12th in the NCAA ... was the top freshman in the entire nation in that category ... 462 digs broke Holli Costein's old mark of 455, set in 1992 ... shattered the dpg mark, which had been Jo Lynn Williamson's 3.80 average in 1987 ... twice earned the MAC's Defensive Player of the Week honor ... offensively, hit .225 with 3.33 kills per game ... had 19 contests with double-digit kills and 21 with double-digit digs totals ... recorded eight matches of 20 or more digs, including a 30-dig effort in win over Cincinnati ... had 28 digs, just one shy of the school record for a four-game match, in win at Akron ... had a five-match span in which she had 18 digs in every match in late September ... averaged 5.43 dpg during that stretch ... had at least 13 digs per match in eight straight matches later in the season ... recorded BGSU's top-nine single-match dig efforts on the year ... in MAC matches only, tied for 14th in kpg (3.52) ... had a "20-20" match vs. Ball State, with team-leading totals of 24 kills and 23 digs ... the kills total was a season best ... had 12 kills in game three alone vs. BSU, hitting .750 (12-0-16) ... averaged 5.25 dpg in her first collegiate weekend, at the Indiana tourney ... had a season-high four aces at Miami ... had five blocks vs. Western Carolina ... played in all 30 matches, starting 29 ... saw action in 108 games.
High School: Earned three letters at Hopewell-Loudon High School ('00) ... the Ohio Division 4 Player of the Year and a first-team all-state selection as a senior ... helped the Chieftains to three state championships ... team went 85-2 over her three seasons, including a pair of 29-0 records in 1998 and 1999 ... HLHS won three Midland Athletic League titles with identical 10-0 marks ... holds the school records for serve receptions in a season (280) and career (481) ... an all-league and All-District 6 First-Team pick as a senior after earning second-team honors on both squads the year prior ... also earned three basketball letters, helping the team to a state runner-up finish in 1998 and a state championship in 1999 ... earned all-league honors in that sport ... lettered in track as a freshman ... named the school's "most athletic female" as a senior ... played club volleyball for the Toledo Volleyball Club under former BGSU standout and assistant coach Wendy (Watkins) Teaman.
Personal: Susan Renee Norris was born Aug. 7, 1982 ... daughter of William and Wendy Norris ... the second of three daughters ... older sister, Carrie, played on the volleyball team at Univ. of Pittsburgh and is now an assistant coach at Duquesne Univ. ... other sister, Kim, is currently a sophomore on the Pitt volleyball squad ... an elementary education major at BGSU, with a 3.86 cumulative GPA ... member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Upsilon Omicron honor societies ... a world record-holder in unicycling, having set the mark in the slow boards forward event in 1995 ... a member of Delta Gamma sorority.
NORRIS[apos]S YEAR-BY-YEAR STATISTICS:
YEAR MP-MS/GP K- E- TA PCT. AST SA DIGS BS-BA 2000 30-29/108 360-142- 968 .225 25 23 462 8-40 2001 28-25/101 234-118- 716 .162 20 16 287 3-17 2002 30-29/108 353-176-962 .188 37 18 380 9-31 Career 88-83/317 947-436-1746 .193 82 57 1129 20-88
NORRIS[apos]S CAREER HIGHS:
Kills: 24 vs. Ball State 9/22/00
Hitting %: .529 (10-1-17) at Cleveland State 11/15/00;
(9-0-17) vs. Winthrop 9/7/01
Assists: 5 vs. Akron 9/28/02
Aces: 6 vs. Tennessee 8/31/01
Digs: 30 vs. Cincinnati 9/2/00
BS: 2, twice (MR: vs. Western Michigan 11/20/01)
BA: 4, twice (MR: vs. IPFW 9/17/02)
TB: 5 vs. Western Carolina 9/8/00
