| Lauren Paolini |
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 | Class:
Senior
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| Hometown:
Ann Arbor, Mich.
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| High School:
Saline
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| Height:
6-5
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| Position:
MB
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| Experience:
Sr.-3L
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· Career statistics
HONORS & AWARDS
· 2008 U.S. Women's National Training Team member
· 2007 AVCA All-America Third Team
· 2007 AVCA All-Central Region First Team
· 2007 All-Big 12 First Team
· 2007 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
· ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 6 Second Team
· Big 12 Player of the Week (Oct. 29, 2007)
· 2007 U.S. Women's National Volleyball A-2 Team member
· 2006 Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
· 2005 Ole Miss Magnolia Invitational Most Valuable Player and All-Tournament Team
· 2005 Shamrock Invitational All-Tournament Team
· Trained with USA Volleyball's 2005 A2 Junior National Team
AS A JUNIOR (2007)
· One of three players to appear in all 103 games of Texas' 31 matches
· Led UT in total blocks (130) and posted a school single-season record .418 hitting percentage
· Started the season at middle blocker, but was forced to move to opposite hitter for seven matches when Ashley Engle missed time with an injury
· Hit at a .523 clip in her first match back middle blocker, a 3-1 win over Texas Tech (9/26)
· Paced the team with a .611 hitting percentage in two consecutive road matches with 13 and 11 kills in a sweep of Texas A&M (10/3) and a five-game win over Kansas State (10/6)
· Tallied nine block assists to go along with 11 kills in the 3-2 win at Kansas State (10/6)
· Recorded a then-career-high .733 hitting percentage and recorded 11 kills on 15 attempts in a 3-0 win at Oklahoma (10/17)
· Tied a career-high with four solo blocks and contributed six kills on .455 hitting in a 3-0 sweep of No. 1 Nebraska (10/24)
· Contributed 10 kills on .667 hitting and tallied seven block assists a sweep of Colorado (10/27) en route to earning Big 12 Player of the Week honors
· Earned a kill/block double-double in a 3-0 win over Florida A&M, registering 13 kills on .545 hitting and adding a season high ten total blocks (11/2)
· Swung at a .600+ clip for the sixth time in 2007, adding nine kills and four block assists in a 3-0 victory over Texas Tech (11/14)
· Set a then-career-high hitting percentage of .778 on seven-of-nine hitting with no errors as UT downed Kansas State, 3-0 (11/24)
· Strung together 14 straight matches of .400+ hitting from 10/13 against Kansas to 11/30 against Texas State
· Recorded a career-high .800 hitting percentage and collected 12 kills on 15 attempts in a 3-0 win over Texas State (11/30) in the NCAA First Round
· Tallied 12 kills, a .450 attack mark and eight block assists in a 3-1 win over Florida (12/7) in the NCAA Regional semifinals
· Registered 11 kills, only one error and a .500 hitting percentage as UT fell to Southern California, 3-0 (12/8) in the NCAA Regional finals
AS A SOPHOMORE (2006)
· Appeared in 92 total games, earning the start at middle blocker in 20 of 31 matches
· Recorded 10 kills on 14 attacks for a season-high .643 hitting percentage against then-No. 2 Penn State (9/8)
· Equaled her season-high .643 hitting percentage again in the 3-0 sweep of Colorado with nine kills on 14 swings (9/20)
· Set a new career high against Kansas State with six block assists and seven total blocks, while also recording a season-high 15 kills in the 3-0 win (9/30)
· Pounded out 10 kills on 20 swings for a .450 percentage, and tallied a match-high seven block assists in the 3-0 sweep of Kansas (11/1)
· Earned 11 kills and a new career-high 10 blocks against Missouri (11/11)
· Hit .667 with four kills and added seven total blocks in NCAA first round win over Prairie View A&M (12/1)
· Registered 11 kills on .500 hitting, while adding six block assists in Texas' NCAA Regional semifinals victory over Wisconsin (12/8)
· Tallied 10 kills, 4.5 blocks and hit at a .360 clip against Stanford (12/9) in the NCAA Regional finals.
AS A FRESHMAN (2005)
· Appeared in 28 matches for a total of 97 games
· Averaged 2.43 kills per game and 3.03 points per game while hitting .261 after splitting the season between outside and opposite hitter
· Tallied double-digits kill totals in nine matches
· Earned her first double-double with a match-high and career-best 19 kills and a career-high 13 digs the following match at Notre Dame (9/3)
· Earned Shamrock Invitational All-Tournament Team honors for her play against Arizona State and Notre Dame
· Followed that up the next week by earning Most Valuable Player and All-Tournament honors at the Ole Miss Magnolia Invitational, leading UT to the championship
· Switched positions after the team's Iowa State match (9/17), moving to opposite hitter and playing only front row, while also moving out of the service rotation
· After taking two matches off to readjust to her new position, came back and had 16 kills while hitting .609 (16-of-23) and tying her career high with six blocks at No. 23 Texas A&M (10/5)
· Recorded a career-high .688 hitting percentage with 12 kills (one error on 16 attacks) at Texas State (11/1)
· Swung for 15 kills while adding four digs and five blocks - including a block assist on match point in game five - in UT's 3-2 upset of previously undefeated and top-ranked Nebraska (11/26)
· Had 12 kills and hit .391 against No. 7 Hawaii (12/3) in the NCAA Second Round.
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) ... led the 2007 USA Volleyball A2 Red Team to a second place finish at the 2007 USA Volleyball Adult Open Championship in Austin, Texas ... two-time USA Volleyball junior national A-2 team member (2004, 2005) and participated in the 2003 USA Volleyball High Performance camp.
BEFORE TEXAS
A 2005 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 recruit ... ranked seventh in the nation among incoming freshmen by Prepvolleyball.com ... a Mizuno High School All-American ... state of Michigan Gatorade Player of the Year ... a two-time team captain at Saline as a three-year varsity performer ... an all-state performer as a senior and also a candidate for Michigan Miss Volleyball ... as a senior, totaled 775 kills, 258 blocks, 375 digs and 110 aces ... a three-time SEC All-Conference performer ... helped lead Saline to the Michigan state quarterfinals as a senior after district and regional titles ... was a three-year member of the Go Blue Club team (2002-04) before playing with Toledo Volleyball Club (2005) as a senior ... also a three-year letterwinner in basketball ... was an honorable-mention All-League selection in basketball while being named the conference's best defensive player ... dunked a basketball in a game as a senior ... was also an all-conference all-academic honoree and a member of the National Honor Society.
PERSONAL
Full name is Lauren Adair Paolini ... born August 22, 1987 in Tustin, Calif. ... is the younger of Cathy and Frank Paolini's two children ... has an older brother, Andrew (21), who is a former member of the Western Michigan basketball team .... received the Margie Nornhausser Hale/Mike Haley Endowed Presidential Scholarship and the Carolyn Frost Keenan Endowed Presidential Scholarship ... three-time Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll selection ... biology/pre-med major.
