USD Volleyball 1995

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MARIA BOWDEN #5

SARA #8 GUNSAULUS

Outside Hitter (OH)

Middle Blocker (MB)

Ht: 6-2 Yr: SO Exp: 1VL Long Beach, CA/ Millikan HS

Ht: 5- 10 Yr: SO Exp: 1VL Los Alamitos, CA/ Los Alamitos HS

Named AII-WCC Fir st

Last Year:

Last Year: Appeared in three matches at the NIVC...Came off th e bench to com– pile nine digs against Sam Houston St. (9- 2) and Portland (10-8)...Had eight digs versus Cal St. Fullerton ...Posted three ser- vice aces at St. M ary's ( 11-11 )... M ade ap– pearances in 29 of 35 matches. Prep/Club: Led Los Alamitos High (Patti Lard) to the CIF-Southern Section Divi– sion II title...Earned Most Valuable Player honors in the Empire League... Named AII-CIF Second Team during junior and senior seaso ns...M ember of Magnum Club program (Charlie Wade) that cap– tured the Chicago Invitational. Personal: Majoring in Psychology ... Parents are Lu and John Bowden...Chose USO for its size and location...Recruited by Santa Clara and Georgia Tech... Born Nov. 2, 1976 in Long Beach, CA.

Team...WCC All-Freshman Team ... Finished second in overall WCC block average (1.28 bpg) and ace average (0.36); sixth in attack percentage (.294)... Finished second in USO total blocks ( 140)... Block total is second highest ever by a USO freshman and the seventh-best single sea– son total in school history...Logged 112 blo ck ass ists, third-b es t in USO annals...Shared team lead in service aces (39, fourth-best all-time and a new USO frosh record)... Finished third in team kills (311 )... Had digs in all 35 matches and blocks in 34 of 35 matches...Recorded double-figure kill s in 13 matches...Put away 19 kills versus Portland (tying school record for a three-game match) and San Jose St. at NIVC (12-4).. .Struck for 16 kills at Cal St. Northridge (11-2)... Strung together a .545 attack% against Gonzaga (10-6)... Stroked six service aces against Portland ( 10-8), o ne shy of USO match record ... Logged 14 kills and a .462 attack perecentage versus Virgini a (9-16) ... Com– pil ed 10 blocks (one solo, nine assisted) against San Diego St. in the Sports Center (9-13)... Put away nine blocks versus North– ern Illinois at the NIVC...Connected for 11 kills against #12 UC Santa Barbara (9- 1 O)... Hit .429 against UC Irvine with just two errors on 21 attempts.

Career Highs: Kills - 3, Three times

Atts. - 1 2, @ Santa Clara, 11-1 2-94 Digs - 9, vs. Sam Houston, 9-2-94

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