Indiana University Athletics
2014 Season in Review
12/11/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
In the 2014 season the Indiana volleyball team showed great individual and team growth as highlighted by several accomplishments and milestones reached.
IU head coach Sherry Dunbar-Kruzan and the team will go into the winter and spring excited about that growth and ready to work hard and improve to set up what should be a great 2015 season.
Here is a recap of those team and individual accomplishments and milestones of the 2014 season. Also below are the final two installments of Inside IU Volleyball as IU head coach Sherry-Dunbar Kruzan recaps the season and looks ahead to the future of the program.
Team Accomplishments/Milestones
• Most wins in a season (15) since the 2010 season.
• Most Big Ten wins in a season (6) since the 2010 season.
• Equaled Big Ten wins from the previous three seasons combined.
• Started the season 6-0 for the first time since 2010 and the sixth time in program history.
• Beat Minnesota for the first time since 2010 and the fourth time in the last 14 years.
• Became the third Big Ten team since 1985 to go from one conference win to six in back-to-back seasons
• Six more total wins than the previous season.
• Improved in statistical categories over the previous season (+73 in kill, +96 in assists, +324 in attempts, +31 in aces, -18 in service errors, +151 in digs, +40.5 in blocks).
• Had three players with 300 or more kills for the first time in at least 10 years.
• Had two players with 300 or more digs for the first time since 2009.
• All players combined to set 62 career single-match highs.
• Fourth in the Big Ten in aces with 145.
• Ranked second among Big Ten teams for aces in a four-set match with 13 against Miami (Ohio).
• 13 aces against Miami (Ohio) ranked fourth most in program history for a four-set match.
Individual Accomplishments/Milestones
• Morgan Leach became the 17th player in IU history with 1,000 or more kills for her career.
• Leach finished 15th in IU history in career kills with 1,110.
• Leach named MVP of UConn Classic and Indiana Invitational.
• Leach second in the Big Ten in hitting percentage in a three-set match at .750 against Western Illinois.
• Megan Tallman tallied 1,159 assists for the season, which is 13th all-time for single season assists, 14th IU player to reach 1,000 assists for a season.
• Tallman finished the season with a total of 1,848 assists, which is ninth on the all-time career assist list.
• Tallman finished eighth in the Big Ten in assists.
• Taylor Lebo tied for fifth on the IU all-time list for single season aces with 51.
• Lebo is tied for the most aces in the rally scoring era.
• Lebo had the most aces in a season since 2005.
• With her six aces against Miami (Ohio) Lebo has the second most for a four-set match in program history.
• With her five aces against Rutgers Lebo tied for second for aces in a Big Ten three-set match and tied for fifth for aces in a Big Ten match.
• Lebo finished the regular season ranked second in the Big Ten and 13th in the NCAA in service aces.
• Lebo fourth in the Big Ten in double-doubles for the season with 12.
• Lebo aces for a four-set match (6) ranks second in Big Ten.
• Courtney Harnish finished the season fifth on the all-time list for single season digs with 445.
• Harnish becomes the third player in IU volleyball history with 445 or more digs for a season.
• With her 26 digs against Mississippi State Harnish has the fourth most in program history for a four-set match.
• Harnish eighth in the Big Ten in digs.
• Kyndall Merritt named Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honoree.
• Mariah Coleman, Morgan Leach, Courtney Harnish and Jazzmine McDonald named Academic All-Big Ten Honorees for Fall of 2014.
• Awele Nwaeze named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 6 after registering nine blocks in each match at Maryland and Rutgers.
• Amelia Anderson reached 700 career kills.
• Anderson ranked 13th in the Big Ten in kills with 312.
• Courtney Harnish reached 700 career digs.
• Awele Nwaeze reached 200 career blocks.
