Nov 12, 2005
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South Easton, Mass. Senior outside hitter Michelle Muniz of Bryant University has been named the 2005 Northeast-10 Conference Volleyball Player of the Year as voted by the conference coaches. The announcement was made today at the 25th Northeast-10 Volleyball Championship, hosted by Pace University in Pleasantville, N.Y.
Muniz is a native of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and was the NE-10 Player of the Year in 2003 and 2004, in addition to being the NE-10 Freshman of the Year in 2002. This season, the four-time Northeast-10 First Team pick leads her team in kills with 487 recorded during the regular season alone and also leads in digs as she enters the conference tournament with 420.
Bryant and Bentley College split all major accolades this year. Also recognized from the Bulldogs was sophomore setter Tiffany Garry of Frankfort, Illinois, named Setter of the Year and received second team honors for the second straight year.
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For the Falcons, Becca Rector of Greenwood Village, Colorado earned Freshman of the Year honors, while senior Katie Markstein of La Jolla, California was named Libero/Defensive Player of the Year, and Sandy Hoffman was named Coach of the Year. This marks Hoffman's seventh appointment as the league's coach of the year.
Muniz and Markstein were also named to the Northeast-10 All-Conference First Team. They were joined Bentley's Christina Sadowski, Julie Handy the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Pace University's Maja Iljic and Stephanie Brink from the College of Saint Rose.
The Northeast-10 All-Conference Second Team included Garry and teammate Jessica Cegarra, Bentley's Amber Gracey, Le Moyne College's Lindsey Fattey, Lindsay Larson of Merrimack College and Shannon Campbell from Saint Rose.
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The Northeast-10 All-Conference Third Team included Rector, Franklin Pierce's Nicole Bucholtz and Tara Vece, Julie McLaud of Le Moyne, Caitlin Harte and Katie Harrington of UMass Lowell and Saint Rose's Michaela Jorgensen.
A complete list of the all conference teams follows.
