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2009 Shark Invitational Tournament Schedule Southern Conference Champions     The Miami Dade College volleyball team is currently ranked #1 in the State, and # 7 in the Nation. The 25-4 Sharks are the 2009 Southern Conference Champions. For the 4th straight season, they finished undefeated in the conference at 12-0. The Lady Sharks are lead by OH/M Sandra Montoya, was is currently ranked in the Nation at #8 digs per set, #47 hitting efficiency, and ranked in the State at #2 digs per set, #11 hitting efficiency, #37 kills per set, #48 blocks per set. OH/M Yenifer Calcano is currently ranked in the Nation at #11 kills per set, #24 aces per set, #29 hitting efficiency, and in the State at #1 kills per set, # 5 aces per set, # 6 hitting efficiency, #17 digs per set, #18 blocks per set. Also, freshman setter Mima Hajdukovic is ranked in the Nation at #23 hitting efficiency, #40 assists per set, and in the State at #6 assists per set, #8 assists per set, #26 aces per set, #43 kills per set. The Lady Sharks have qualified for the FCCAA Region/State Championship competition on Nov. 5-7.     FCCAA Player of the Week 10/20/09     Yenifer Calcano FCCAA Player of the Week, Yenifer Calcano, a freshman middle, led the Lady Sharks to a 5-1 record at the Missouri-WP Tournament with wins against #8 Missouri, #9 Seward., and Lakeland College. Calcano was named All Tournament team, and for the week, had a .602 hitting percentage with 4.27 kills per game, and 8 services aces. On defense, Calcano had 23 blocks, 1.045 per game, and averaged 3.2 digs per game.     NJCAA Player of the Week 10/14/09     Mima Hajdukovic Mima Hajdukovic, the NJCAA Player of the Week, led Miami Dade to a 4-1 record during the MDC Volleyball Invitational Tournament. The freshman setter averaged 7.4 assists per set, with 1.6 kills and 1.87 digs per set. She recorded a triple-double in a win against No. 8 MSU-West Plains, with 10 kills, 13 digs and 37 assists. Mima also recorded four blocks and five aces on the week.     FCCAA Player of the Week 10/14/09     Mima Hajdukovic Setter, Mima Hajdukovic was also named FCCAA Player of the Week along side her NJCAA player of the week award for performance at the MDC Shark Invitation Tournament. Hajdukovic had 25 kills, 30 digs, 8 blocks, 5 aces, and 114 assists for the week.     FCCAA Defensive Player of the Week 10/14/09     Sandra Montoya Sandra Montoya, had 14 blocks and 106 digs, 6.24 per game for the Lady Sharks during the MDC Shark Invitational. The finished the tournament 3-1, while Montoya tallied 31 digs in a big win against #8 Missouri-West Plains.     FCCAA Player of the Week 9/22/09     Jennifer Calcano Freshman M/OH Jennifer Calcano, earned Player of the Week honors whiled posting a .38% hitting percentage with 20 blocks, 1.11 per game. She also aided in an undefeated week for the Lady Sharks with 10 aces and 73 digs, 4.956 per game. In a match vs. Clearwater Christian, Calcano had 17 kills, 3 aces, 28 digs, and 5 solo blocks. In the Pasco Hernando Tournament, she tallied 11 kills, 20 digs, 2 assists, and 4 solo blocks, which helped MDC win the Pasco-Hernando Tournament.     FCCAA Defensive Player of the Week 9/22/09     Sandra Montoya Sophomore OH/RS Sandra Montoya, earned Defensive Player of the Week honors. Montoya accumulated 94 digs, 5.2 per game and 5 blocks. She placed 2nd in the dig Club with 38 assists against Clearwater Christian, and holds the #1 spot with 45 digs against San Jacinto College. Her contribution on defense helped the Lady Sharks remain undefeated that week, and win the Pasco-Hernando tournament Championship.     FCCAA Volleyball 2009 25 Dig Club     M/RS-Sandra Montoya OH/M-Yenifer Calcano LIB-Joy Barquin OH-Iva Cepic   Player Digs Date, Opponent 1-Sandra Montoya 45 9/12, San Jacinto College 2-Sandra Montoya 38 9/18, Clearwater Christian 3-Joy Barquin 37 9/18, Clearwather Christian 6-Sandra Montoya 32 9/12, Midland College 7-Sandra Montoya 31 10/10, Missouri-West Plains 13-Yenifer Calcano 28 9/18, Clearwater Christian 28-Joy Barquin 25 9/12, San Jacinto College 35-Iva Cepic 25 10/10, Missouri-West Plains   2009 FCCAA Volleyball Players of the Week 9/8/09     Player of the Week Yenifer Calcano Yenifer Calcano (Fr, Santo Domingo, DR) a freshman outside hitter for Miami Dade College, is the FCCAA Player of the Week. In 13 games last week, Calcano help lead the Sharks to a 4-0 start for the season. She posted 49 kills with a .404 hitting percentage, 11 aces, 4 blocks and 39 digs. Currently, she is ranked 14th in nation (njcaa.org) for kills per game with 3.92. Calcano contributed in the match against Broward College with 19 kills, hitting 51%, with 10 digs, 2 aces and 2 solo blocks.         Defensive Player of the Week Sandra Montoya Sandra Montoya (So, 5-10, Medellin, Colombia), a sophomore outside hitter/rightside from Miami Dade College, earned FCCAA Defensive Player of the Week honors. On the week, Montoya racked up 51 digs with an average of 6.375 digs per game (DPG) and 2 blocks. Currently, she is ranked 7th (njcaa.org) in the nation for digs per game. She had 23 digs in a 3 game match against Indian River State College.         The Miami Dade College volleyball team signs high school stand-outs Christine Lozano and Stephanie Toledo (pictured left to right) for the 2009-10 season. Lozano, a 5’8” setter from Florida Christian High School, named 2nd Team 3A All-State Team, and 1st Team All Dade Class 4A-1A: 795 assists, 187 digs, 62 aces on the season. Stephanie Toledo, a 6’2” middle blocker from Dr. Michael Krop High School was named 1st Team All Dade Class 5A-6A: 232 kills, 52 aces, 42 blocks on the season.

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