The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2007 Women's Volleyball Roster
Roster
Juliann Faucette
- Position:
- OH
- Height:
- 6-2
- Class:
- Sophomore
- High School:
- Westview
- Hometown:
- San Diego, Calif.
HONORS & AWARDS
• 2010 Honda Award Finalist
•Two-time AVCA All-America First Team (2007, 2010)
•Two-time Volleyball Magazine All-America First Team (2007, 2010)
• 2010 NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team
• 2010 NCAA Austin Regional Most Outstanding Player
• Three-time AVCA All-Central Region First Team (2007, 2009, 2010)
• 2010 Big 12 Player of the Year
• Four-time All-Big 12 First Team (2007-10)
• AVCA National Player of the Week (Nov. 23, 2010)
• 2010 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
• Big 12 Player of the Week (Sept. 27, 2010;Nov. 15, 2010; Nov. 22, 2010; Sept. 17, 2007; Oct. 22, 2007 )
• 2010 Texas Invitational All-Tournament Team
• 2010 Burnt Orange Classic Most Outstanding Player
• 2009 Volleyball Magazine All-America Second Team
• 2009 AVCA All-America Third Team
• 2009 NCAA All-Omaha Regional Team
• 2009 Hawaiian Airlines Wahine Classic All-Tournament Team
• 2008 AVCA All-Central Region Honorable Mention
• 2008 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• 2008 Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational All-Tournament Team
• 2008 U.S. Women[apos]s National Training Team member
• 2007 AVCA National Freshman of the Year
• 2007 College Volleyball Update (CVU.com) Freshman of the Year
• 2007 Big 12 Freshman of the Year
• 2007 All-Big 12 Freshman Team
• 2007 Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational All-Tournament Team
• 2009 Collegiate Beach Nationals participant with partner Amber Roberson
• Ranked No. 2 recruit nationally by PrepVolleyball.com (2007)
• 2006 U.S. Women[apos]s Junior National Team member
AS A SENIOR (2010)
• led the Longhorns with 536.5 points (4.55 pps) and 465 kills (3.94 kps) while hitting .263
• finished the season with double-digit kills in 15 straight matches
• completed her career with 14 kills and seven digs in the 2010 national semifinal match against Penn State in Kansas City
• posted 20 kills and 10 digs while hitting .298 in a four-set win over Purdue in the NCAA Austin Regional final on Dec. 11
• had 19 kills and 12 digs on Dec. 10 against Illinois in an NCAA third-round match
• had 17 kills on Dec. 4 in the NCAA second-round match against UCLA
• opened the NCAA Tournament with 11 kills and five blocks against UTSA
• posted a career-high 22 digs to go with 16 kills while hitting .333 on Nov. 27 at Iowa State
• had 26 kills in a four-set win on Nov. 19 against Kansas, hitting. 396 with 15 digs and two blocks
• recorded a career-high 30 kills on Nov. 10 in a four-set win at Baylor, hitting. 364 while adding 15 digs and two blocks
• on Oct. 30 at Colorado in a 3-0 sweep, she tied a career best with five solo blocks against the Buffaloes while hitting .360 on 11 kills
• hit .480 (14-2-25) in a 3-0 sweep of Kansas State on Oct. 22
• had 22 kills on Sept. 22 in a four-set win at Missouri
• posted 15 kills and nine digs in a five-set win against Long Beach State
• opened the season with 10 kills, six digs and a career-high seven service aces in a 3-0 sweep against TCU
AS A JUNIOR (2009)
• ranked second on the squad with 3.17 kills and 3.64 points per-set
• recorded a season-best 21 kills, hit .306 and added 12 digs in a 3-2 win at No. 23 Long Beach State (Aug. 29)
• notched 18 kills on .318 hitting to help Texas to a 3-1 win over No. 4 Hawaii at the Wahine Classic (Sept. 3)
• tallied 12 kills, zero errors and a .545 attack mark in UT[apos]s tournament-clinching sweep of No. 19 Saint Louis at the Wahine classic (Sept. 6)
• posted a kill/dig double-double with 10 kills and 11 digs in a sweep of No. 10 Iowa State, while adding a career-high five solo blocks (Sept. 18)
• registered 12 kills on .333 hitting and chipped in 14 digs to pace the Horns to a sweep of Kansas State (Oct. 2)
• in her first match at opposite hitter she totaled a season-best 22 kills and hit a career-high .778 in a sweep of Texas Tech (Oct. 17)
• recorded a kill/dig double-double with 13 kills and 12 digs as UT fell to No. 8 Iowa State, 3-2 (Nov. 4)
• hammered out 13 kills on .571 hitting in the season finale sweep of Kansas (Nov. 28)
• hit .346 and totaled 14 kills in a 3-1 win over Nebraska in the NCAA Omaha Regional final (Dec. 12)
AS A SOPHOMORE (2008)
• started all 33 matches and appeared in all 118 sets
• ranked second on the club in kills per-set (2.94) and fifth in digs per-set (1.65)
• recorded 17 solo blocks to rank second among Longhorns
• opened the season with 13 kills on .333 hitting in a 3-0 sweep of No. 4 USC (8/29)
• registered a season-best 17 kills in UT[apos]s 3-2 loss to No. 2 Stanford (8/31)
• hit a season-best .526 and recorded 13 kills in a 3-0 sweep of Houston (9/12)
• notched her first kill/dig double-double of the year, tallying 14 kills and 11 digs in a 3-1 win over Oklahoma (10/1)
• recorded 16 kills and posted a .406 attack mark in a 3-1 win at Colorado (10/11)
• hammered out 12 kills on .556 hitting in a 3-0 win at Texas Tech (10/22), while adding six digs and a block
• connected for 14 kills and collected nine digs in the Horns[apos] 3-2 loss to Oklahoma (10/29)
• tallied a kill/dig double-double with 11 kills and 10 digs in a 3-0 sweep of Texas Tech (11/12)
• totaled 14 kills on .565 hitting and committed just one error in a 3-0 win over Kansas (11/22)
• paced Texas with 15 kills and five total blocks in its four-set win at Missouri (11/26)
• pounded out 11 kills on .476 hitting in UT[apos]s sweep of Lamar in the NCAA First Round (12/5)
• posted 13 kills in a 3-1 win over Iowa State in the NCAA Regional final (12/13)
• registered 19 kills on .289 hitting with five digs in a 3-2 loss to No. 2 Stanford in the NCAA Semifinals (12/18)
AS A FRESHMAN (2007)
• started 30 of Texas[apos] 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 (9/17) after posting 6.83 kills per game and hitting at a .437 clip against No. 1 Nebraska (9/12) and Missouri (9/15)
• set a new career-high in hitting percentage at .583 and tied a career-high with 23 kills in a 3-0 win over Iowa State (9/19)
• posted 18 kills on .412 hitting, adding two service aces and nine digs in an all-around effort in UT[apos]s 3-0 win over Colorado, (9/28)
• tallied a 20 kill, 11 dig double-double on .395 hitting in a 3-0 win over 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 in a sweep of Baylor, tallying 14 kills and 14 digs (11/17)
• led the team with 19 kills and notched her eighth double-double with 11 digs as UT swept Kansas State, 3-0 (11/24)
• recorded a career high 16 digs in a sweep of LSU in the NCAA Second Round (12/1)
• registered a team-high 16 kills on .406 hitting against USC in the NCAA Regional finals (12/8)
INTERNATIONAL
Teamed with Rachael Adams, Jennifer Doris and Sydney Yogi to lead the U.S. A2 Blue Team to the 2010 USA Volleyball Open National Championship ... 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) ... teamed with Doris to help lead the 2006 USA Women[apos]s Junior National Team to a gold medal at the NORCECA Continental Women[apos]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 ... ranked No. 2 recruit nationally by PrepVolleyball.com and named 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 former Longhorn 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 (23), Javoni (15), Tomilyn (14) and Jade (13) ... 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), a six-year tenure at SMU, a second stint at UT (2006-07) and his current post as assistant strength coach with the St. Louis Rams ... her mother competed for the University of Maryland gymnastics team for two years ... corporate communication major ... three-time Big 12 Commissioner[apos]s Honor Roll selection.
