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2019 Women's Volleyball Roster

Peter Mangels
Peter Mangels
Peter Mangels
Peter Mangels
Peter Mangels
Peter Mangels
Peter Mangels
Peter Mangels
Peter Mangels

2 Amber Smith

2 Amber Smith

  • Position:
    OH
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Height:
    5-8
  • Hometown:
    Penfield, NY
  • Highschool:
    Webster Schroeder
  • Major:
    Glass Science Engineering

Summary

Biography

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Empire 8 Honors: - Empire 8 25th Anniversary Team


2019 Saxon Highlights: vs Allegheny (Empire 8 Plays of the Week) | vs Allegheny

2018 Video Interviews: vs Stevens Empire 8 Tournament Recap

2018 Saxon Highlights: Weeks 4-5 | Saxon Plays of the Year (#10)

2017 Video Interviews: 2017 Preseason Video | vs Keuka Recap | vs Houghton/Hartwick Recap | vs Houghton/Messiah/Lynchburg/Lycoming Recap | 2017 Empire 8 Playoff Preview Video | MyD3 Video

2017 Plays of the Week: vs Keuka | vs Keuka (Empire 8 Play of the Week) | vs Messiah | vs Messiah (Empire 8 Play of the Week)

2016 Video Interviews: vs Morrisville/Hilbert Recap
 
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ECAC Honors: ECAC North First Team (2016), ECAC North Rookie of the Week (11.02.16)
Empire 8 All-Conference Honors: Empire 8 Co-Rookie of the Year (2016), All-Empire 8 First Team (2019, 2018, 2016), All-Empire 8 Second Team (2017), Empire 8 All-Tournament Team (2018)
Empire 8 Weekly Honors: Empire 8 Player of the Week (09.03.19, 10.22.18, 10.01.18, 09.10.18) Empire 8 Rookie of the Week (10.31.16, 09.06.16)
Saxon Honors: Saxon of the Week (09.02.19, 10.01.18, 10.31.16, 09.05.16)

Career: Finishes her career as the all-time leader in rally era kills (1,430), kills per set (3.68), and points (1,576)...second all-time in digs (1,178)...fourth all-time in attack hitting percentage (.188)...fifth all-time in digs per set (3.03)...10th all-time in service aces (78).

2019: Competed in 24 matches and 82 sets... led the team in points (347.0), kills (309), and hitting percentage (.233)...Named to the 2019 St. Vincent College Bearcat Challenge All-Tournament Team (08.31.19)...posted a season-high 24 kills vs. Allegheny College (08.30.19)...had 19 matches with 10 or more kills, including a nine-match streak spanning through September...tallied 13 double-doubles...had a season-high 19 digs vs. Hamilton (09.07.19)...had 14 matches of 10 or more digs...set a season-high with four total blocks (all assisted) against Potsdam (09.21.19)...hit a season-best .448 on 29 attempts at Hartwick (09.27.19)...also tallied 28 assists, with a season-best seven against Schreiner (09.14.19).

2018: Finished the season as the program leader in rally era kills with 1,121 and overall program leader in points with 1,229.0...earned Elizabethtown College All-Tournament Team (09.15.18)...selected to the All-Empire 8 First Team (11.07.18)...earned Empire 8 Championship All-Tournament Team (11.14.18)...named Empire 8 Women's Volleyball Player of the Week (09.10.18, 10.01.18 and 10.22.18)...named a Saxon of the Week (10.01.18)...played in all 28 matches and all 95 sets...led the Saxons in points with 423.0, kills with 392 and kills per set with 4.13 as all three are career-highs...broke her career-high in kills with 30 against Utica College (10.20.18) while also breaking a career-high in points with 35.0 as she tacked on four aces (career-high) and one block solo...had 22 matches of 10 or more kills including a nine-match streak spanning from mid-September until early October and an eight-match streak from mid-October all the way until the Empire 8 Tournament...recorded nine double-doubles with kills and digs in which every match of 10 or more digs, was a double-double...had six matches of 20 or more kills...had a season-high 24 digs against Hartwick College (10.20.18) with 24 kills...had 23 matches of 10 or more points.

2017: Named to the All-Empire 8 Second Team (11.07.17)...earned a spot on the Penn State Behrend/Allegheny College Northwest PA Challenge All-Tournament Team (09.09.17)...led the Saxons for the second year in a row in points with 393.5 points...played in all 30 matches...led the Saxons in kills with 360...totaled 20 aces and was third on the team in blocks with 21 (15 assisted and six solo)...led Alfred University in digs with 357...broke her career-high in kills with 27 against Hartwick College (10.07.17)...broke her career-high in digs with 25 against Bethany College (10.08.17)...had 19 matches with 10 or more kills and four with 20 or more...recorded 16 matches of 10 or more digs and four with 20 or more.

2016: Selected ECAC Division III North Women's Volleyball First Team All-Star...named the Empire 8 Co-Rookie of the Year (11.02.16)...selected as an All-Empire 8 First Team member (11.02.16)...earned ECAC Corvias Division III North Rookie of the Week (11.02.16)...selected as the Empire 8 Rookie of the Week twice (09.06.16 and 10.31.16)...earned GoSaxons.com Athlete of the Week twice (09.05.16 and 10.31.16)...named a member of the 2016 SUNY Cortland All-Tournament Team (09.03.16)...earned a spot on the St. John Fisher College All-Tournament Team (09.17.16)...set her collegiate career-high in kills with 23 against SUNY Polytechnic (10.29.16)...recorded her career-high in attack percentage with a .474 pct (20 kills, two errors and 38 total attacks) against Elmira College (10.12.16)...set her career-high in digs at 24 against Wells College (09.03.16)...recorded four solo blocks to set her career-high against Wells College (09.03.16) and five assisted blocks against SUNY Cortland (09.03.16), Nazareth College (10.08.16) and Oswego State (10.29.16) with Cortland being the career-best in total blocks with six....set her career-best in aces with three against Lebanon Valley (09.02.16) and Keuka College (10.05.16)...played in 27 matches...led the Saxons in points with 412.5, kills 369 and hitting percentage with .194...added a team third in leading digs with 327...was fourth in total blocks with 40 (31 assisted and a team-second nine solo)...had six matches with 20 or more points and 22 with 10.0 or more points...had three matches with 20 or more digs and 17 with 10 or more digs including 15 of those matches being double-doubles in digs and kills...led the Empire 8 in kills with 369 and was second in kills per set with 3.51.

Before AU: Played for Shawn Strege and the Warriors of Webster Schroeder High School in Webster, NY…helped her team become the Section V Class AA Champions in 2015 as well as Co-Champions of her league that year…became Co-Champions in her league in 2014…earned Tournament MVP in 2015 during the Section V Class AA tourney…made Third Team Prep Volleyball Defensive Dandies in 2015…was All-Greater Rochester in 2014 and 2015 as well as All-State Fifth Team Class AA in 2015…earned First Team All-League (Monroe County D1) in 2014 and 2015…Victor Tournament All-Tournament Team and MVP in 2015…Section V Class AA All-Tournament Team 2014…was Second Team All-Monroe County D1 in 2012 and 2013…Prep Volleyball Soph 79 Honorable Mention in 2013…Penfield Tournament All-Tournament Team 2013 and Eden Tournament 2014 All-Tournament Team…co-captained the Warriors in 2014 and 2015…member of the National Honor Society as well as the National Spanish Honor Society.
 
Personal: Parents are Gary and Wendy Smith…majors in glass science engineering.

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Historical Player Information

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    2016First Year

    Outside Hitter
    5'8"
    2
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    2017Sophomore

    Outside Hitter
    5'8"
    2
  • 2

    2018Junior

    Outside Hitter
    5'8"
    2
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    2019Senior

    Outside Hitter
    5'8"
    2