CSP’s Anna Schlaak Named Most Outstanding Player of NCAA D2 Tournament

  0 Braden Keith | December 11th, 2016 | College - Women's Indoor, Division II, News

Concordia St. Paul senior Anna Schlaak has been named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2016 NCAA Division 2 Women’s Volleyball Championship after leading her team to a dominant win in Saturday’s championship game.

Schlaak was one of 4 Golden Bears named to the all-tournament team – with nobody else putting more than two players on the team.

The redshirt senior started off slow in the tournament, hitting just .227 and .167 in her first two games (although the later game with 18 kills on a whopping 54 swings in a 4-set win over Winona State). After the team got out of the first two rounds, however, she heated up – hitting better than .300 in each of her last 4 games of the season.

Schlaak had double-doubles in 3 of her 6 NCAA tournament games. In the last game of her collegiate career on Saturday, she had 10 kills, hit .421, and also dug 7 balls. In total, she finishes her career as one of just five players in CSP history to have 1000 kills and 1000 digs.

Her teammates Riley WilsonEmma Lange, and Kasey Williams, all seniors, were also named to the first team. CSP defeated Alaska-Anchorage 3-0 in Saturday’s Championship game (25-19, 25-12, 25-12).

2016 NCAA DII Women’s Volleyball All-Tournament Team

1          Mallory Davidson              L/DS            5-5           So.      Austin, Texas                        Angelo State
5          Kayce Krucki                     OH              5-9           Sr.      Findlay, Ohio                        Wheeling Jesuit
6          Susie Forbes                     L                 5-6           Jr.       Miami, Fla.                            Palm Beach Atlantic
11        Olivia Finckel                     OH/OPP      6-2           Fr.      Baltimore, Md.                      Palm Beach Atlantic
15        Abby Becker                      S                 5-11         R-So.  Menomonee Falls, Wis.         Lewis
20        Maddie Seliga                   RS               5-10         R-Jr.   St. Louis, Mo.                        Lewis
2          Morgan Hooe                    S                 5-6           Sr.      Anchorage                            Alaska Anchorage
9          Chrisalyn Johnson             OH              5-8           So.      Anchorage                            Alaska Anchorage
5          Riley Hanson                     MB              5-11         Sr.      Nevis, Minn.                          Concordia-St. Paul
7          Emma Lange                    MB/RS        6-1           Sr.      Caledonia, Minn.                   Concordia-St. Paul
14        Anna Schlaak                    OH              5-9           Sr.      New Richland, Minn.             Concordia-St. Paul
15        Kasey Williams                  S                 5-8           Sr.      Cross Plains, Wis.                 Concordia-St. Paul

Most Outstanding Player
14        Anna Schlaak                    OH              5-9           Sr.      New Richland, Minn.             Concordia-St. Paul

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of VolleyMob.com. Braden's first foray into sports journalism came in 2010, when he launched a swimming website called The Swimmers' Circle. Two years later, he joined SwimSwam.com as a co-founder. Long huge fans of volleyball, when Braden and the SwimSwam partners sought an opportunity to …

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