Emodi and Found Earn AVCA Honors

San Antonio - Two outstanding Trinity University Tigers volleyball players have earned recognition as Honorable Mention All-Americans by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
 
First-year outside hitter Maggie Emodi and senior right-side player Catharine Found both earned the Division III honors.
 
Emodi (Omaha, Neb./Marian) had one of the best first seasons in Trinity volleyball history. The 5-foot-10 Emodi was earlier named the AVCA South Region Freshman of the Year, and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year. Emodi was also elected to the All-SCAC Second Team and the AVCA All-South Region Team.
 
She led the Tigers in kills per set (3.34, 354 total kills), was second in hitting percentage at.288 (353 kills, 100 errors, 882 total attacks), and placed fourth in total blocks (63, .59 per set) and digs (204, 1.92 per set).
 
Found (Iowa City, Iowa/West) was previously selected for the All-SCAC Second Team and the All-South Region Team. The 6-foot-1 Found led Trinity in hitting percentage,  at .295 (308 kills, 78 errors, 780 total attacks). She finished second in total blocks (121, .90 per set).

Both players had important roles in the Tigers run to the SCAC Championship match in  Jackson, Miss. Fifth-seeded Trinity, led by head coach Julie Jenkins, began the tournament with a 3-0 victory over Sewanee:University of the South, and then defeated No. 4 Birmingham-Southern by the same score. Trinity upset top seed (and nationally sixth-ranked) Southwestern 3-1 in the semifinals, before falling 3-1 to No. 2 Colorado College (ranked 13th), the defending SCAC champion

Trinity completed the campaign with a 22-16 record.