Piper unaninmous All-OAC First Team volleyball selection

Otter­bein Uni­ver­sity sopho­more Tabatha Piper was an unan­i­mous First Team selec­tion on the 2012 All-Ohio Ath­letic Con­fer­ence (OAC) women’s vol­ley­ball team.

Piper, a set­ter from Sun­bury (Big Wal­nut High School), nar­rowly missed out on OAC “Player of the Year” recog­ni­tion after earn­ing con­fer­ence “Fresh­man of the Year” hon­ors one year ago. She ranked fourth in the league with 9.4 assists per set, includ­ing an impres­sive 7.9 against regionally-ranked oppo­nents. Her .359 hit­ting per­cent­age would have been a league-best if she met the min­i­mum require­ment of four attacks per set.

Otter­bein fin­ished sec­ond in the OAC regular-season stand­ings at 8–1 before win­ning its first-ever OAC Tour­na­ment cham­pi­onship Sat­ur­day after­noon, defeat­ing Mount Union 18–25, 25–20, 25–22, 25–21.

The Car­di­nals plays Hope Col­lege in the open­ing round of the NCAA Divi­sion III Tour­na­ment Thurs­day after­noon in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Posted by Gary Henery on Nov 7 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.