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I IA Y ANCHULOVA Outside Hitter 1999 -All-America Candidate

1998 Division :t First Team All-America 1998 AVCA District vm Team

1998 West Coast Conference Player of the Year 1998 NCAA Tournament: Continued her tremendous offensive production in the post season ... Pounded a match-high 20 kills in first round victory against South Florida and led the Toreros with 22 digs ... Established a new USO three-game match kills record with 3 1 kills aga inst Wisconsin, shattering the previous mark of 23 ... Hit .348 and added a team-high 16 digs and four total blocks against the Badgers... Comp leted 1998 as USD single-season record holder in kills, (572) and ranked second in digs (377). Miscellaneous: Finished 1998 ranked second among NCAA Division I leaders in kills per game with 5.90 per game... Ranks I0th in Division I history for most kills in a four game match (38); Tied for 13th for kills in a three game match (31 )... Partnering with her sister, Lina, placed 25th at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, representing Bulgaria. 1998 Notes: Exp loded as one of the dominant players on the entire West Coast in her junior campaign ... Named West Coast Conference Player of the Year after averaging 6.0 kills (first WCC) , 3.73 digs (first WCC) whil e hitting .331 (third WCC) ... Named National AVCA Player of the Week after leading Toreros to a four game victory versus Pepperdine and a sweep versus # 14 Loyola Marymount ( I0-10)... Surpassed 30 kill plateau four times with 33 at Santa Clara ( I0-16), 31 versus # IO Hawai ' i ( I0-19), and career-h igh 38 versus Santa Clara ( 11-14) and 31 in against Wisconsin ( 12-5 )... Recorded 29 kills twice

SOFIA , BULGARIA HRISTO DANOV HS LEVSKI

(Gonzaga, I0-2; Pepperdine, I0-9) ... Her 38 kills is the all -time Torero single match record and her 572 kills set the all-time si ng le-season USD record .. . Led the Toreros with 18 double-double performances... Turned in two 20-20 performances versus Ca l State Northridge (22 kills, 20 digs) and at Santa Clara (33 , 20)... Against the Top-25 averaged 22.6 kills while hitting .278 with 11.6 digs per match ... MVP of the New Mexico Classic Tournament and the USO Invitationa l and was all -tournament at the San Diego State Tourna– ment to remain the only Torero to be named to every all-tourney team in her USO career... Named WCC Player of the Week three times and was WCC Player of the Month for September and October. I 997 Notes : Establ ished season highs in kills with 29 at CS Northridge, (9-23-97) and digs with 23 at Fresno State (9-20-97)... All-WCC Second Team selection ... Set USO single match record for most attempts in a match w ith 79 against USC in the second round of the NCAA's ( 12-6- 97).. . Ranked fifth in conference kills per game average (3.99) I 996 Notes: Voted West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year... Second Team All-WCC selection ... Ranked in the top ten in the WCC in three categories; sixth in hitting percentage (.295), fifth in kill average (4 .1 7) and fifth in ace average (.33)... Led team in all three categories.. . Voted to three All-Tournament teams (USO, UCSB, Ca l Poly SLO) and was voted Tournament MVP ofUSD Invitational... Selected San Diego Hall ofCham– pions Amateur Star of the Month in September... Turned in third highest total in kills for one season in USO history with 442 ... Recorded IO+ kills in all but four matches ... Recorded 20+ kills in six matches. 1995 Notes: Sat out 1995 season.

Prep/Club: Competed on the Bulgarian Youth Nationa l Team... Played for Levski Club Team ... Senior year team placed third... Junior year she was MVP after lead ing team to first place finish. Personal: Double majoring in International Relations and Business... Minor is Computer Sci– ence... Parents are Nina and Todor Yanchulova.. . Father, Todor, competed on the Bulgarian Olympic Rowing Team... Mother, Nina, was a competiti ve sk ier... Sister, Lina, played for the Univers ity of Idaho - Big Sky MVP 1996... Born July 3, 1978 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Yanchulova 's Career Statistics Year MP/GP ATT KILL ATT% A· SA DIG BS BA TB 1998 30/97 1310 572 .330 10 27 377 10 36 46 1997 30/97 942 387 .265 11 22 274 4 41 45 1996 30/106 980 442 .295 65 35 277 18 74 92 Total 90/300 3232 /40/ .297 86 84 928 32 /5/ 183 199 7 &: 1998 w~t &=t