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Juliann Faucette #1
Height: 6-2
Class: Fr.-HS
Position: OH
Hometown: San
Diego, CA (Westview HS)
HONORS & AWARDS
· 2007 AVCA National Freshman of the Year ·
2007 AVCA All-America First Team
· 2007 AVCA All-Central Region First Team ·
2007 All-Big 12 First Team
· 2007 Big 12 Freshman of the Year · 2007 All-Big 12 Freshman Team
· 2007 Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year
· 2007 Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational All-Tournament Team
· Big 12 Player of the Week (Sept. 17) ·
Big 12 Player of the Week (Oct. 22)
· Second-ranked national recruit by PrepVolleyball.com
U.T. STATISTICS
Season GP-MP K
K/G E TA
Pct A A/G
SA SA/G SE
2007................ 96-29
429 4.47 131
929 .321 19
0.20 21 0.22
57
TOTAL............... 96-29
429 4.47 131
929 .321 19 0.20 21
0.22 57
Season DIG D/G
RE BS BA
TB B/G BE
BHE Points Pts/G
2007................ 244
2.54 19 18
46 64 0.67
15 3 491.0
5.11
TOTAL............... 244
2.54 19 18
46 64 0.67
15 3 491.0
5.11
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 Sept. 17 after posting 6.83 kills per
game and hitting at a .437 clip against No. 1 Nebraska (10/20) and Missouri
(10/24)
· Set a new career-high in hitting percentage at .583 and tied a career-high
with 23 kills against Iowa State (9/19)
· Posted 18 kills on .412 hitting, adding two service aces and nine digs in an
all-around effort against Colorado (9/28)
· Tallied a 20 kill, 11 dig double-double on .395 hitting against 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 against Baylor with 14 kills
and 14 digs (11/17)
· Led Texas in kills with 19 and completed her eighth double-double with 11
digs against Kansas State (11/24)
· Recorded a career high 16 digs against LSU in the second round of the NCAA
Tournament (12/1)
· Registered a team-high 16 kills on .406 hitting against Southern California
in the NCAA Regional finals (12/8)
INTERNATIONALLY
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 ... was the second-ranked recruit
nationally by PrepVolleyball.com and 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 fellow Longhorn freshman 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 (20), Javoni (12), Tomilyn (11) and Jade (10) ... 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) and his current
six-year tenure at SMU ... her mother competed for the University of Maryland
gymnastics team for two years ... is a liberal arts major. 1989…Hobbies include singing, dancing
andacting…Favorite food is sushi and favorite book is Angels and Demons…Enjoys
listening to R&B, particularly Alisha Keys…Favorite athlete is Michael
Jordan…Was a gymnast for eight years before becoming a cheerleader and dancer
in her teens…Started playing indoor volleyball in 2004 with Coast Volleyball
Club.
05/28/2008
Faucette
and Paolini to represent USA Volleyball at Pan American Cup
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Texas sophomore outside hitter and
senior middle blocker Lauren Paolini will be part of the youth movement in USA
Volleyball as the U.S. Women's National Team showcases its future at the Pan
American Cup, the 2008 season-opening event for Team USA, held May 30-June 7 in
Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico.
While the future will be displayed, some of the American players
will also be evaluated for one of 12 roster spots at the 2008 Olympic Games.
The future may be now for some of these athletes.
"We will use the Pan American Cup Tournament for
evaluation," U.S. Women's National Team head coach 'Jenny' Lang Ping said.
"For our veterans, we will decide later as they are not in their best
physical condition to play in this event. Also, some of them came in really
late from their professional teams."
Faucette, a San Diego, Calif., native was the 2007 AVCA National
Freshman of the Year in her first season on the Forty Acres. The outside hitter
paced the UT squad with a team-best 445 kills, while hitting at a .324 clip and
averaging 4.49 kills and 2.51 digs per-game.
Paolini, an Ann Arbor, Mich., native garnered third-team AVCA
All-America accolades in 2007 after enjoying a breakout season. The middle
blocker led the UT club, hitting at a team-best .418 clip and headlining the
team with 130 total blocks.
The roster includes outside hitters Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach,
Calif.), Faucette (San Diego, Calif.), Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.)
and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah). Middle blockers for the tournament are
Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Tracy
Stalls (Denver, Colo.). Lindsey Hunter (Papillion, Neb.) and Angie McGinnis
(Fraser, Mich.) will share setting duties. Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) and
Katie Olsovsky (Hermosa Beach, Calif.) are the opposites on the roster, while
two-time Olympian Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) will serve as the libero. U.S.
Women's National Team Assistant Coach Tom Hogan will serve as the head coach
for the squad and will be assisted by Gen Kawakita and Denise Corlett.
Faucette
helps U.S. Volleyball blank Mexico at Pan American Cup (USAVolleyball.org)
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U.S. Women Blank Host Mexico at Pan American Cup
by Bill Kauffman - USA Volleyball - June 3, 2008
Photo: NORCECA Team USA celebrates victory over Mexico on June 2 at the 2008 Pan American Cup
Bill Kauffman, Manager, Media Relations and Publications
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (updated June
3, 2008) – The U.S. Women’s
National Volleyball Team blanked host Mexico 25-18, 25-22, 25-14 Monday evening
during the Pan American Cup’s fourth day of pool play at Mexicali, Mexico.
The U.S. (3-1), ranked fourth in the world by
FIVB but using a young roster at the Pan American Cup, concludes pool play on
Tuesday against Trinidad & Tobago at 4 p.m. Pacific Time. Team USA is
currently in second place in Pool A, percentage points behind Dominican
Republic which lost to Argentina in four sets. Argentina also is 3-1 and is in
third place, percentage points behind the leaders. Argentina faces Costa Rica
on the final day of pool play, while Dominican Republic plays host Mexico. With
the victory over Mexico, the U.S. has clinched at least a spot in the
quarterfinal round and possibly a bye depending on Tuesday’s action.
The tournament field of 12 teams is broken
into two pools of six teams. Pool play consists of five matches in five days.
The winner of each pool advances directly to the semifinal round on June 6. The
second- and third-place finishers in each pool will have crossover quarterfinal
matches on June 5 to determine semifinal opponents for the pool winners.
Team USA used a key 6-0 run to widen a 16-14
lead in the first set en route to winning 25-18. Mexico erased nearly all of a
15-7 deficit in the second set as it came to within 19-18, but the U.S. held on
for a 25-22 victory. The Americans never trailed in the third set and pulled away
from a 4-3 advantage with an 11-2 run in close the match at 25-14.
Team USA started Lindsey Hunter (Papillion,
Neb.) at setter, Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) and Kristin Richards
(Orem, Utah) at outside hitter, Tracy Stalls (Denver) and Lauren Paolini (Ann
Arbor, Mich.) at middle blocker, Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) at opposite
and Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) at libero. Barboza and Hughes started all
three sets, while Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) started the second
and third sets. Angie McGinnis (Fraser, Mich.) subbed in the first set and
started the third set. Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) came off the
bench in the second set and started the third set. Juliann Faucette (San Diego)
subbed into the match in the second and third sets, while Katie Olsovsky
(Hermosa Beach, Calif.) entered as a reserve in the opening set.
As part of the unofficial statistics,
Richards led the U.S. with 12 points via 11 kills on 18 swings and a block.
Stalls, Barboza and Klineman all contributed seven points in the victory.
Klineman totaled her points with five kills on seven errorless swings to go
with two blocks. Despite not playing the opening set, Crimes tallied a
match-high four blocks to go with two kills for six points. McGinnis provided a
block and ace, while Faucette rounded out the scoring with a kill on two
attacks. Barboza handled 22 service reception with a 77 positive reception
percent. Sykora was perfect on her seven receptions and held a 71 excellent
percent mark.
Martha Revuelta paced Mexico with 13 points
on 12 kills and a block. Migdalel Ruiz added seven kills and two blocks for
nine points in the loss.
Team USA held an 11-7 advantage in blocks and
both teams served three aces in the contest. The U.S. converted 44 percent of its
swings into kills and had only 12 hitting miscues (seven blocked, five other
errors) for a .286 attack efficiency.
The Pan American Cup will yield four berths
into the 2009 World Grand Prix. The top three teams from NORCECA and the top
South American team will advance to next year’s annual FIVB tournament.
Brazil has assured itself a spot in the Pan
American Cup semifinals after defeating Peru in straights sets tonight. Brazil
is 4-0 in Group B.
The United States is ranked fourth in the
FIVB world ranking. However, Team USA is using a young team at the Pan American
Cup to evaluate individuals for potential Olympic roster spots in 2008, as well
for future teams in the next quadrennial beyond the 2008 Olympic Games in
Beijing.
Team USA used a 4-0 spurt with the score tied
6-all in the opening set to gain a 10-6 lead. Mexico bounced back to close to
within one at 11-10 and eventually tied the set at 13-all. Richards and Hughes
collected kills and Barboza capped 3-0 run with a block to lift the U.S. into a
16-13 lead at the second technical timeout. Stalls downed a kills, and
following a double-switch to put McGinnis at the service line and Olsovsky on
the front row, McGinnis sliced an ace for a point at 18-14. McGinnis maintained
the serve until the U.S. led 21-14 as part of a 5-0 run. Team USA grabbed set
point at 24-15 on a Stalls kill and two Mexico miscues. However, the host
answered with three unanswered points before serving an error at 25-18.
Mexico led 4-3 early in the second set, but
the U.S. caught fire as part of a 12-3 run that included four Barboza kills,
three points for Richards (two kills and a block), an ace from Hughes and kills
off attacks from Stalls and Crimes giving the Americans a 15-7 lead. Mexico
inched to within five points at 16-11 with two blocks, then moved to within one
point at 19-18. Klineman helped the U.S. regain composure with three quick
points as part of a 4-1 spurt that gave the Americans a 24-20 lead. After
Mexico saved set point twice, Hughes put down a kill at 25-22.
The U.S. jumped to a 3-0 lead in the third
set, but Mexico climbed back in at 4-3. However, the Americans utilized an 11-2
run to take a commanding 15-5 lead as Klineman scored two kills, Crimes,
McGinnis and Stalls each put up a block and Hughes canned an ace in the spurt.
After a Mexico kills stopped the bleeding, the U.S. erupted for another five
unanswered points with a kill and block from Klineman and a block from Crimes
to put the score at 20-6. Mexico put together a modest 6-2 run to cut the
deficit to 10 points at 22-12, but the U.S. traded points with the host the
rest of the way with Faucette earning the final point at 25-14 on a kill.