University of Nebraska - Kearney Athletics

LOPER NOTES
688 career kills (2.95 ps) ... kill average tied for 11th in school history ... 695 career digs (2.98 ps) ... .226 career attack pct. ... 85 blocks, 41 assists and 28 aces ... All-RMAC in both volleyball and track

AS A JUNIOR (2011)
Honorable mention AVCA All-American ... AVCA All-Central Region ... Daktronics second-team All-Region ... first-team All-RMAC ... MVP of the RMAC Tournament ... first-team Academic All-RMAC ... starting outside for a second straight year ... played a team-high 111 sets ... second on the team in kills (324/2.92 ps) and digs (346/3.12 ps) ... also had 44 blocks (0.40 ps), 26 assists and 11 aces ... hit .247 ... 96% serve reception rate ...17 matches with 10 kills or more ... six of those came over the last seven matches of the year ... 10 double doubles ... season-high of 16 kills came against Black Hills State and then vs. Regis in the RMAC tourney ... hit .571 vs. BHSU (16-0-28) ... hit over .300 in 11 other matches ... season-best 17 digs in five set win at Colorado Christian .... recorded three blocks in three different matches ... had two aces at UNO

AS A SOPHOMORE (2010)
Played in all 36 matches as one of the team's starting outside hitters ... second on the team in kills (364) and kills per set (2.98) ... also third in service aces (17), digs (349) and digs per set (2.86) ... fifth in blocks (41) ... 11 double-doubles ... 17 matches with at least 10 kills and 15 matches with 10 digs or more ... against nationally-ranked Wayne State, had a season-highs in both kills (24) and digs (27) ... earlier, had 21 digs and 14 kills in a five set loss to Mesa State ... hit .579 (11-0-19) in sweep of UCCS in late September ... in an NCAA win over SW Minnesota State, had a season-high six block assists

PRIOR TO UNK
Spent the fall of 2009 at Division I Louisiana-Lafayette ... for the Ragin' Cajuns, averaged 2.11 kills and 2.71 digs per set ... played 116 sets for a team that went 9-24 ... 10 matches with double digit kill totals ... season-best 18 kills, and 18 digs, in five-set match vs. North Texas ... six digs and four kills in loss to Nebraska

HIGH SCHOOL
Four-year letterwinner in track and earned three letters in both basketball and volleyball ... led the Islander volleyball team to the Class A state finals in 2006 and 2007 ...  as a senior in 2008, had 430 kills, 393 digs, 52 aces and 25 blocks ... also hit .398, second best in the state ... first-team Class A all-state honors as well as being named third-team All-Nebraska ... helped club team win a 2007 national title ... in track, was a four-time Class A state medalist in the high jump and a two-time state runner up in the long jump ... all-conference and all-Heartland in basketball ... part of 204 national AAU championship team (Cornhuskers Shooting Stars) ... Grand Island Independent Athlete of the Year ... Academic All-State .. one of 48 Nebraskans selected for Believers & Achievers

PERSONAL
Daughter of Jerome & Dee ... mother played volleyball at Wayne State ... sister, Angie, played volleyball at Dickinson (N.D.) State ... transferred to Kearney in January 2010 ... as a member of the Loper track team, has earned All-RMAC honors in the high jump (both indoor and outdoor)