ABC 10/CW5 Courtesy: Northern Michigan University Athletics
Courtesy: NMU
BAY CITY, Mich. – No. 20 Northern Michigan University Volleyball took home the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Player of the Year and Coach of the Year awards as well as several All-GLIAC Team honors on the eve of the 2021 GLIAC Tournament opening day.
Freshman of the Year:
Freshman Jacqueline Smith took home the 2021 GLIAC Freshman of the Year after an impressive campaign in her first year in Marquette.
Smith finished the regular season with 193 total kills and averaged 4.02 kills per set. She led the GLIAC for the majority of the year in kills and kills per set and finished second in both categories. The freshman hailing from Saint Germain, Wis. was named the GLIAC North Player of the Week in early March, the first weekly honor of her career. She also had the kill that won the final match of the season for NMU and secured the GLIAC Regular
ABC 10/CW5 Courtesy: Northern Michigan University Athletics
Courtesy: NMU
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University volleyball team took a talented Ferris State University team to the wire on their home court in a 3-2 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) loss Friday afternoon.
In the first set, the Wildcats struggled at stopping the Bulldog attack. A 4-0 Ferris State run set the tone for the contest in which NMU put up eight total points. Even after falling behind the Wildcat team did not stop fighting, as kills by Hailey Wickstrom and Ania Hyatt came late in the set. The Bulldogs took set one 25-8.