Asics/Volleyball Magazine POY/All American Team
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SPORTSTICKER VOLLEYBALL NOTE
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(Courtesy BW SportsWire -- 800-221-2462)
#Asics/VOLLEYBALL Magazine announces All-American teams;
players of the year#
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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.--(BW SportsWire)--May 14, 1996--Yuval
Katz, a 22-year-old sophomore opposite from Israel, is the Asics/
VOLLEYBALL Magazine men's college Player of the Year.
Katz led Hawai'i to a No. 1 ranking for most of the season and a
second-place finish at the four-team NCAA Tournament at UCLA. Katz,
who led the country in kills per game (7.7), had 47 kills in a five-
game loss to UCLA in the national championship match. He was named
the NCAA Tournament MVP.
California-San Diego's Tom Black was named the Small College
Player of the Year after leading NCAA Division III in kills per game
while competing in the 14-team Mountain Pacific Sports Federation,
which includes UCLA, Hawai'i, California-Santa Barbara, Stanford and
seven other NCAA Division I teams.
Ryan Millar of Brigham Young is the Freshman of the Year after
leading the nation in blocking.
Here is a look at the 1996 Asics/VOLLEYBALL Magazine men's
college All-American teams:
First Team
Name School Yr. Pos. Ht. Hometown
Yuval Katz Hawai'i So. OP 6-5 Haifa, Israel
Ivan Contreras Penn State Jr. OH 6-4 Tampico, Mexico
Tom Hoff Long Beach St. Sr. OP 6-7 Park Ridge, Ill.
Stein Metzger UCLA Sr. S 6-4 Honolulu
Erik Pichel Hawai'i Sr. S 6-0 Pacific
Palisades, Calif.
Todd Rogers UC-Santa Sr. S 6-2 Santa Barbara,
Barbara Calif.
Greg Wakeham Pacific Jr. MB 6-7 Irvine, Calif.
Second Team
Eddie Ferraz Ball State Jr. S 6-4 Vitoria, Brazil
Matt Fuerbringer Stanford Jr. OP 6-7 Costa Mesa, Calif.
Paul Nihipall UCLA Jr. OP 6-7 Yorba Linda, Calif.
Martin Wagner Long Beach St. Sr. OP 6-4 Irvine, Calif.
Keenan Whitehurst Stanford So. MB 6-8 Fresno, Calif.
Aaron Wilton Hawai'i Jr. OH 6-1 Honolulu
Third Team
Kevin Barnett Pepperdine Jr. OP 6-5 Naperville, Ill.
Chris Borden Lewis Sr. MB 6-5 Orangeville, Canada
Donny Harris UC-Santa Jr. OH 6-7 La Canada, Calif.
Barbara
Adam Spitznagle Ohio State Sr. S 6-3 Wheaton, Ill.
Chad Strickland Cal St. So. OH 6-1 Valencia, Calif.
Northridge
Lars Winter San Diego Sr. OH 6-7 Los Angeles
State
Small College
Tom Black UC-San Diego Sr. OP 6-4 Reseda, Calif.
Chris Fazio Juniata Jr. MB 6-5 Pittsburgh
Wycliffe Gordon New Jersey So. MB 6-5 East Orange, N.J.
Tech
Javier Placer Springfield Sr. OH 5-11 Rio Pierdras,
Puerto Rico
Rob Sneider La Verne Jr. OP 6-3 Arcadia, Calif.
Satsay Thongvichith
Jersey City So. OP 5-10 Glassboro, N.J.
State
All-Freshman
Ryan Millar Brigham Young MB 6-7 Lancaster, Calif.
Oswald Antonetti Brigham Young OH 6-1 San Juan,
Puerto Rico
Gabe Gardner So. California OH 6-8 San Clemente, Calif.
Victor Rivera Lewis University MB 6-5 Naranjito,
Puerto Rico
George Roumain Pepperdine OH 6-6 Parkland, Fla.
James Turner UCLA MB 6-8 Pacific Palisades,
Calif.
CONTACT: VOLLEYBALL Magazine, Woodland Hills
C.C. Sandorfi, 818/593-3925
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