Palisades Pacesetters

Kristin Quinn, a sophomore outside hitter on the women’s volleyball team at Amherst College in Massachusetts, was named to the New England Women’s Volleyball Association Division III All New England team last Friday. An All-Region selection for the second consecutive season, Quinn finished runner-up in the NESCAC and sixth in the nation in hitting percentage (.426) and first in the conference and 23rd in the nation in blocks per game (1.44). Quinn added a team-high 3.59 kills per game. Quinn was an All-CIF volleyball player and swimmer at Harvard-Westlake High. Sophomore Lizzie Kay, a libero on the women’s volleyball team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, earned Centennial Conference honorable mention after leading the conference with 640 digs (6.67 per game) this season, shattering the record of 500 which she set as a freshman last year. Kay, formerly an All-CIF performer at Cate School in Carpineteria, also served 31 aces for the Blue Jays, who finished 18-10 and reached the Centennial Conference finals. Erin Ogilvie, a sophomore libero on the women’s volleyball team at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, compiled 251 digs (4.82 per match) in 21 matches this season, good enough for fifth in the NESCAC. She dug a season-high 28 digs in the Bantams’ five-game victory over Emmanuel in October. Ogilvie won back-to-back state championships as a defensive specialist at Marymount High in 2001-02. As a freshman last year, she had 217 digs in 25 matches (3.15 per game), including a season-best 26 digs against Connecticut. Rachel Popielarz, a freshman setter for the women’s volleyball team at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, is currently second on the squad in assists (3.13 per game) with 97 assists and 32 digs this season. The Knights (21-2) recently beat crosstown rival St. Olaf College to win its first Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title. Popielarz was an All-Sunshine League selection at Marlborough High and made the All-Tournament team at the Brentwood Invitational her senior year.