The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2008 Women's Volleyball Roster
Roster
Lauren Paolini
- Position:
- MB
- Height:
- 6-5
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Saline
- Hometown:
- Ann Arbor, Mich.
HONORS & AWARDS
· 2008 U.S. Women[apos]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[apos]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[apos]s 2005 A2 Junior National Team
AS A JUNIOR (2007)
· One of three players to appear in all 103 games of Texas[apos] 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[apos] 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[apos]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[apos]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[apos]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[apos]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[apos]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[apos]s Honor Roll selection ... biology/pre-med major.
