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2010 Volleyball Roster

13 Amanda Cowdrey

  • Position Outside Hitter
  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Cardinal Leger
  • Hometown Brampton, Ontario
  • Prev School Albany

Biography

Coach Sheffield Outlook: “She probably loves the game of volleyball more than any player I've ever been around.  Her passion is absolutely contagious and she's always searching for ways to be better.   On the court she's a player that makes people around her better.  She's a tremendous all-around player who doesn't have many holes in her game.  She's also as consistent of a player as you'll find anywhere.  Every single match she brings it.”

2010 (Senior): Named UD's White Allen Chevrolet Most Valuable Player ... Atlantic 10 First Team All-Conference ... Atlantic 10 All-Tournament Team ... Started in all 31 matches and played in all 111 sets ... Named Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Week after tying a career-high of 27 digs and 12 kills at Saint Louis (9/24), adding 21 digs in three sets at Duquesne (9/26) to hold the Dukes to a .055 hitting percentage ... Also tied a career-high 27 digs to help defeat No. 22 Northern Iowa (9/3) at the (Minnesota) Diet Coke Classic ... Ranked sixth in the A-10 in digs per set (3.90) ... Third-most total aces on the team with 29 ... 0.30 aces per set during conference play ranked sixth in the A-10 ... Her career-high of three aces has occurred nine times – three times in 2010 .. Powered the Flyers’ four-set victory in the A-10 Championship Semifinal match over Duquesne (11/20) with a season-high 15 kills and 24 digs ... Registered 12 double-doubles of the dig-kill variety ... Five matches with 20 or more digs and 14 matches with double-digit kills ... Recorded over 600 kills and over 800 digs in just two seasons with the Flyers. 

2009 (Junior): Atlantic 10 Championship Most Outstanding Player ... 2009 A-10 All-Tournament Team ... Dayton Flyer Classic’s All-Tournament Team ... Passed the 1,000 career mark in both kills and digs ... Eclipsed 1,000 career kills with 14 in a 3-2 win over Saint Louis (10/17) ... Topped 1,000 career digs with 11 in a 3-0 win at George Washington (10/25) ... Posted 16 double-doubles on the season ... Helped Dayton battle back from two 0-2 deficits to win 3-2 -- against Creighton (9/12) with 15 kills and 15 digs to capture the Dayton Flyer Classic title and against Saint Louis (11/22) with 15 kills, 25 digs, and three aces in the A-10 title match ... Led the Flyers with 41 service aces ... Season-high of 20 kills in last regular season match against Ohio (11/27) ... Second on the team with 3.33 digs per set ... Third on the team with 2.73 kills per set.

Albany 
2007-08 (Freshman-Sophomore): Played her freshman and sophomore seasons at Albany with current UD head coach Kelly Sheffield ... 2008 First Team America East All-Conference ... 2007 America East Rookie of the Year ... AmEast Rookie of the Week on four occasions ... Led the Great Danes in kills per set in both seasons ... Tallied a total of 66 service aces over two seasons ... Of the 25 matches she reaches double-digit kills in 2007, 21 were double-doubles (kill-dig), including seven straight.  

High School: Named the Cardinal Leger Secondary School Cardinal Leger's Athlete of the Year as a junior ... Represented Canada at the U-19 Beach World Championships ... Member of the Provincial and National Beach Volleyball championship teams ... Earned the Ontario Volleyball Association Award of Excellence in 2004 and 2005 ... Played with the Peel Selects club volleyball team.

Personal: Born March 11, 1989 to Wendy McDougall ... Has two sisters, Erin and Shannon, and one younger brother, Michael.

Statistics

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2010

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Historical Player Information

  • 13

    2009Junior

    OH
    5'10"
    13
  • 13

    2010Senior

    Outside Hitter
    5'10"
    13