In 2015, Penn State finished 4th in the Big Ten and advanced only to the NCAA Region Semifinal where they were swept by Hawaii. Penn State began the year ranked #1 after having won the national championship the previous two seasons.
Roster
Penn State lost 4 important players from the previous year's championship team. Setter Micha Hancock, middle blocker Nia Grant, libero Dominique Gonzalez and defensive specialist Lacey Fuller all graduated. The four returning starters were Megan Courtney, Ali Frantti, Haleigh Washington and Aiyana Whitney. While Whitney was a returning starter, she played much of the season at middle blocker which was a new position for her in 2015.
Prior to the 2015 season, Whitney was selected to represent Penn State on the Big Ten Volleyball Foreign Tour, where a team composed of players from each conference school competed in Slovenia, Croatia and Italy over the summer.
NumberPlayerPositionYearHeight2 Lara CarawayDSSR3 Kendall PierceLiberoSR4 Wilma RiveraSetter/DSFR5 Ali FranttiOHSO6 Nia ReedOHRS FR8 Lainy PierceDSSO10 Carley MullerDSJR11 Tori GorrellMBFR12 Keeton HolcombLiberoFR13 Taylor KrauseDSJR14 Aiyana WhitneyOH/MBRS SR15 Haleigh WashingtonMBSO16 Jelena NovakovicOPPFR17 Megan CourtneyOHSR19 Heidi ThelenMBSO21 Bryanna WeiskircherSetterRS FR22 Simone LeeOHSO24 Laura BroermanDSJR
Coaches
Russ Rose - Head Coach Salima Rockwell - Associate Head Coach Stevie Mussie - Assistant coach Jesse Tupac - Director of Volleyball Operations Shawn Sangrey - Volunteer Assistant
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