2007 Missouri Volleyball Season Highlights
12/26/2007 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
Dec. 26, 2007
2007 Missouri Volleyball
Season Highlights
- Missouri reached NCAA Tournament play for the eighth-straight time in 2007 and is one of only 16 teams to have reached the tournament for each year this decade ... in addition, Mizzou, along with Nebraska, are the only teams in the Big 12 to have reached the post-season every year since 2000.
- The Tigers faced sixth-seeded and sixth-ranked Washington in the NCAA Tournament's first round in Seattle ... Mizzou came within four points of pulling the major upset, almost becoming the first unseeded team in tournament history to knock off a seeded team in the first round ... only twice before had an unranked team forced a ranked team to five games in tournament history.
- With a final record of 17-13, the Tigers secured its eighth-straight winning season
- The Tigers went 7-2 in non-conference play losing in five games to both Ole Miss and Florida International ... sophomore OH Julianna Klein (Keota, Iowa), who was Mizzou's leading scorer at the time, tore her ACL in a match on September 8 and was sidelined for the remainder of the season.
- After starting Big 12 play 0-4, Mizzou rebounded to win its next five straight and nine of its next 13, losing to only one unranked team for the balance of the season, to pull to a final conference record of 10-10 to tie for sixth with Texas A&M in the standings.
- Mizzou claimed a win over then-No. 25 Oklahoma in five games on September 29 in Columbia in tallying its lone win over a top-25 team in the season ... the Tigers forced then-No. 2 Nebraska to a five-game showdown in Lincoln on October 31, handing the Huskers its first set-loss in Big 12 play at home since 2005.
- Mizzou finished the season ranked 11th nationally in attendance with over 2,100 fans per contest ... the Tigers have finished in the national top 15 in attendance in the past three years, ranking in the national top seven in 2005 and 2006.
- Four Tigers, Tatum Ailes, Lindsay Smith, Lei Wang, and Na Yang, were named to the Academic All-Big 12 team ... Mizzou has had at least four named to the academic honor roll in each of the last five years.
- The Tigers made three television appearances during the season.
- Senior L Tatum Ailes (Bellevue, Neb.) became the first defensive player in league history to be named to the Preseason All-Big 12 team ... Ailes tallied over 2,000 digs in her career becoming only the second person in Big 12 history to do so ... in the NCAA First Round at Washington, Ailes racked a career-best, tied-Mizzou and Big 12 single-match record with 39 digs ... on October 15, Ailes earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week honors.
- Senior OH Na Yang (Shan Dong, China) was given honorable mention All-Big 12 honors, finishing the league's season fifth in kills per game (4.54) ... Yang used 26 kills in her career finale to reach a season total of 522, breaking Yvette Buhlig's 1992 single-season Mizzou record.
- Freshman MB Weiwen Wang (Nanjing, China) was named to Big 12's inaugural All-Freshman team ... at Colorado on October 3, Wang set two Mizzou single-match bests with 13 total blocks and 19 kills without an error ... on October 8, Wang was awarded Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week honors for her efforts ... in the regular-season finale against the Buffaloes on November 24, Wang matched her 19 kills without an error, hitting at a .704 strike on 27 attempts.
- Sophomore S Lei Wang (Shanghai, China) recorded Mizzou's first triple double since 2001 in scoring 10 kills with 49 assists and 15 digs in the Tiger win over then-No. 25 Oklahoma on September 29 ... Wang again scored a triple-double in the Tiger victory at Kansas on October 27 with 10 kills, 45 assists and 11 digs.
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