| Juliann Faucette |
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 | Class:
Junior
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| Hometown:
San Diego, Calif.
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| High School:
Westview
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| Height:
6-2
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| Position:
OH
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| Experience:
Jr.-2L
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· Career statistics
HONORS & AWARDS
• 2008 AVCA All-Central Region Honorable Mention
• Two-time All-Big 12 First Team (2007-08)
• 2008 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• 2008 Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational All-Tournament Team
• 2008 U.S. Women's National Training Team member
• 2007 AVCA National Freshman of the Year
• 2007 AVCA All-America First Team
• 2007 Volleyball Magazine All-America First Team
• 2007 College Volleyball Update (CVU.com) Freshman of the Year
• 2007 AVCA All-Central Region First Team
• 2007 Big 12 Freshman of the Year
• 2007 All-Big 12 Freshman Team
• 2007 Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational All-Tournament Team
• Big 12 Player of the Week (Sept. 17 and Oct. 22, 2007)
• 2009 Collegiate Beach Nationals participant with partner Amber Roberson
• Ranked No. 2 recruit nationlly by PrepVolleyball.com (2007)
• 2006 U.S. Women's Junior National Team member
AS A SOPHOMORE (2008)
• started all 33 matches and appeared in all 118 sets
• ranked second on the club in kills per-set (2.94) and fifth in digs per-set (1.65)
• recorded 17 solo blocks to rank second among Longhorns
• opened the season with 13 kills on .333 hitting in a 3-0 sweep of No. 4 USC (8/29)
• registered a season-best 17 kills in UT's 3-2 loss to No. 2 Stanford (8/31)
• hit a season-best .526 and recorded 13 kills in a 3-0 sweep of Houston (9/12)
• notched her first kill/dig double-double of the year, tallying 14 kills and 11 digs in a 3-1 win over Oklahoma (10/1)
• recorded 16 kills and posted a .406 attack mark in a 3-1 win at Colorado (10/11)
• hammered out 12 kills on .556 hitting in a 3-0 win at Texas Tech (10/22), while adding six digs and a block
• connected for 14 kills and collected nine digs in the Horns' 3-2 loss to Oklahoma (10/29)
• tallied a kill/dig double-double with 11 kills and 10 digs in a 3-0 sweep of Texas Tech (11/12)
• totaled 14 kills on .565 hitting and committed just one error in a 3-0 win over Kansas (11/22)
• paced Texas with 15 kills and five total blocks in its four-set win at Missouri (11/26)
• pounded out 11 kills on .476 hitting in UT's sweep of Lamar in the NCAA First Round (12/5)
• posted 13 kills in a 3-1 win over Iowa State in the NCAA Regional final (12/13)
• registered 19 kills on .289 hitting with five digs in a 3-2 loss to No. 2 Stanford in the NCAA Semifinals (12/18)
AS A FRESHMAN (2007)
• started 30 of Texas' 31 matches and appeared in 99 total games
• ranked first on the team in total kills (445) and second in kills per game (4.49), tallying double-figure kill totals in 25 of her 30 matches
• recorded a kill/dig double-double against No. 3 Penn State (8/24) in the first match of her collegiate career
• anchored the Texas attack at the Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational, totaling a team-high 30 kills on .377 hitting for the tournament
• hammered out a career-high 23 kills on .375 hitting to lead UT to a 3-1 victory over Pepperdine (9/7)
• earned Big 12 Player of the Week honors (9/17) after posting 6.83 kills per game and hitting at a .437 clip against No. 1 Nebraska (9/12) and Missouri (9/15)
• set a new career-high in hitting percentage at .583 and tied a career-high with 23 kills in a 3-0 win over Iowa State (9/19)
• posted 18 kills on .412 hitting, adding two service aces and nine digs in an all-around effort in UT's 3-0 win over Colorado, (9/28)
• tallied a 20 kill, 11 dig double-double on .395 hitting in a 3-0 win over Texas A&M (10/3)
• led the team with 22 kills on .432 hitting and also posted nine digs in a 3-0 win over Kansas (10/13)
• posted her seventh double-double of the season in a sweep of Baylor, tallying 14 kills and 14 digs (11/17)
• led the team with 19 kills and notched her eighth double-double with 11 digs as UT swept Kansas State, 3-0 (11/24)
• recorded a career high 16 digs in a sweep of LSU in the NCAA Second Round (12/1)
• registered a team-high 16 kills on .406 hitting against USC in the NCAA Regional finals (12/8)
INTERNATIONALLY
Competed with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Training Team in the spring of 2008, spending the semester in Colorado Springs, Colo. ... helped Team USA to a 5-3 record in its exhibition tour of China (March 21-April 2, 2008) ... paced the U.S. to a fifth-place finish in the 2008 Pan American Cup in Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico (May 30-June 7) ... teamed with fellow Longhorn Jennifer Doris to help lead the 2006 USA Women's Junior National Team to a gold medal at the NORCECA Continental Women's Junior Championships in Monterrey, Mexico ... was the second-highest scorer on the USA Junior National team in the summer of 2006.
BEFORE TEXAS
A 2007 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 recruit ... ranked No. 2 recruit nationally by PrepVolleyball.com and named a 2007 PrepVolleyball.com All-American ... four-year starter at Westview High School, earning All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) honors her junior and senior seasons ... paced her Westview team to the 2006 CIF championship ... competed for Epic Volleyball Club with former Longhorn Chelsey Klein ... led her Epic squad to a third-place finish at the 2006 Junior Olympics and a pair of first-place finishes at the 2007 Lone Star Classic and the 2007 Big South Tournament ... garnered Junior Olympic All-America honors in 2006 ... San Diego Union Tribune 2006 Player of the Year ... North County Times Hall of Champions inductee ... named to the Granite Hills High School All-Tournament Team in 2005-06 ... ran hurdles and competed in high jump her freshman and sophomore seasons at Westview.
PERSONAL
Full name is Juliann Christine Faucette ... born November 25, 1989 ... daughter of Chuck Faucette of Dallas, Texas and Carolyn Ryba of San Diego, Calif. ... has four sisters, Jenna (22), Javoni (14), Tomilyn (13) and Jade (12) ... her father was a four-year starter at linebacker for the University of Maryland football team (1983-86), helping the Terrapins to three straight Atlantic Coast Conference championships (1983-85) ... he played two seasons with the San Diego Chargers (1987-89) before starting his coaching career, which included a stint as assistant strength & conditioning coach at Texas (1999), a six-year tenure at SMU, a second stint at UT (2006-07) and his current post with the St. Louis Rams ... her mother competed for the University of Maryland gymnastics team for two years ... corporate communication major ... two-time Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll selection.
