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Wednesday, December 12
Lena Yee wins Honorable Mention from the AVCA
Today, the AVCA (American Volleyball Coaches Association) announced 36 players for various levels of "All-American" and 64 players for "Honorable Mention." Jammer alumna Lena Yee, libero for the St. John University Red Storms, received an Honorable Mention. This means Lena was ranked in the top 100 players among approximately 4,000 Division I women players.
Lena Yee played in the "sweet sixteen" for the NCAA championship tournament last week. Unfortunately, her team, the St. John University Red Storms, were defeated in the fifth set by USC. The team's appearance was the first Sweet Sixteen participation for the team, which has played in Division 1 for 14 years. The Red Storms outdug USC throughout the match.
Yee was named Big East Libero of the Year for the second time. Not coincidentally, this is the second year that St. John's is a top 25 AVCA ranked school. Against conference opponents, Yee averaged 4.76 digs per game. Click on Lena's picture to read more.
Saturday, November 17
Jammers' 1st Share of an NCAA Championship
Jammer alumna Marya "Blondie" Kaminski's college team, the Washington University Bears, won the NCAA Division III championship today. Yay!
Monday, September 10
Jammers Congratulates the Class of 2007
 | |  | | Marya (#12) blocks for Washington Bears |
Jammers Congratulates its 2007 graduates. Thank you to their parents for persevering, for sharing the dream, and believing that investing in good fundamental training and the Junior Olympic experience would pay off!
Kylie Harrington -- (St. Francis); University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, Nevada
5'9"; Outisde Hitter - Jammer since 2004. In her second college match, Kylie scored a double double against Hoffstra: 13 kills, 10 digs and 5 aces. Click here to read a fun interview of Kylie.
Kealohilani Kea -- (Kamehameha); Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
5'7" Setter -- Jammers since 2001. In the first week of September, Kea made her national television debut when Pepperdine played the #7 University of Texas. The match was on ESPNU. Kea served three aces on the Longhorns. The television commentators lauded her technique in executing a perfect pancake. Click here to learn more about Kea.
Marya Kaminski -- (Iolani); Washington University,St. Louis, Missouri
6'1" Middle -- Jammer since 2002. In a recent match against Concordia, Marya pounded down the final point of the firs set for the Washington Bears. Click on the picture and go to page 8 to read about recent matches. Click here to learn more about Marya's team.
Heather Mau -- (Maryknoll); Adelphi University, Long Island, New York
5'8" Setter/ Right Side -- Jammer since 2004. Heather leads her team in service aces and is second only to the libero in digs. Click here to learn more about Heather.
Elizabeth Villalino -- (Le Jardin); Brandeis University, Boston,Massachusetts
5'9" Middle/ Right Side -- Jammer since 2005. Villa has played both front row and back row in all five matches for her college team as of September 10, 2007 and is third on her team for kills per game. Click here to learn more about Villa's team.
Kerrie "Bear" Yee -- (Iolani); Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
5'4" DS/Libero/Setter -- Jammer since 1999.
All of the Jammers have received full or very very large partial scholarships; all will be playing volleyball in college except for Bear.
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 | | Lena Digs in Championship Match | |
Tuesday, July 24
Jammer Alumna Lena Yee Wins Awards at International Tournament
|  | | Lena Wins International Trophies | |
Read an interview of Lena in Honolulu Advertiser Article July 24, 2007
Jammer Lena Yee, a junior at St. Johns University, won the most awards of any player at the Viet Nam Television 4th International Volleyball tournament in May, 2007. Lena won medals as best receiver, best digger and best libero. The St. John's Red Storm won 2nd place in the tournament which featured teams from Viet Nam, Kazahkstan, Japan, Korea, Thailand and other countries. In the 2006 season, the St. John's team reached the NCAA Division I tournament for the first time ever. Lena was a setter and libero for Jammers and played at Moanalua High School. Click on the title or Lena's picture to read the complete news story from St. John's University's website.
Sunday, November 26
Two Jammers In NCAA Tournament
Division I of the NCAA announced the 64 teams in the Championship tournament brackets for 2006. Lena Yee's St. John team will play at the University of Albany on November 30. This is a first appearance in the tournament for the St. John team. Earlier that evening Kaui Robello's Siena team will play #8 seed U. of Minneapolis at the same arena. The tournament is single elimination so the evening will be the end of the season for two of the four teams at Albany. The winners of each match will play each other on the following evening. Congratulations to both Jammers for their achievements.
Tuesday, November 21
Lena is Big East Libero of the Year; Deven makes Big West All Freshmen team
| |  | | Deven is double-double leader. |
Jammers covered the US coast to coast with awards this week.
Big East. Jammer Lena Yee is a sophomore on the St. Johns University Red Storm Team. Lena was chosen as Libero of the Year for the Big East Conference. The Red Storm are #1 in the conference. Her Coach, Jo Ann Persico won the Player of the Year Conference in 1986. In 2006, Coach Jo-jo was chosen as Coach of the Year. After just two seasons playing Lena is approaching 1000 digs.
Big West. Jammer Deven Bukowski is a Freshman outside hitter for the Cal State Fullerton Titons. Deven was named as to the All Freshman team for the Big West 2006 season. Deven is the team leader in double-doubles -- hitting double digit and digging double digit in the same match. the outside hitter posted the most points by any freshman in the league and led the team with 11 double-doubles. She set a career-high in kills on Oct. 13 with 18 and digs Sept. 29 with 21.
 | | Lena Digs | |
Friday, November 17
Lena's Team is # 24!!! Jammers Brandi and Lena Ending D1 Season at Top of their Conferences
Coaches say, "Offense wins games but defense wins championships." Here are two great role models for our Jammer girls, especially the "vertically challenged" shorter ones.
Jammer LENA YEE WON THE AWARD FOR BEST LIBERO IN THE BIG EAST CONFERENCE!!
Jammers own Lena Yee made a major contribution all season to the first ever AVCA top 25 ranking for St. John's University Red Storm. Lena has been the starting libero for the Red Storm since her freshman season. For more detial click on Red Storm. The St. John's Red Storm were undefeated in Big East conference play for the first time ever in the team's history and have achieved their first ever AVCA "top 25" ranking. The AVCA ranking is based on polls of college coaches. In their most recent victory over Villanova, Lena has a standout defensive performance, making 20 digs in the 5 set match. There are over 300 Division I schools in 31 different conferences.
Jammer alumna Brandi Higa is the libero for Fairfield which ended the regular season with a perfect record, 18-0. They will play in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference championship next weekend. Brandi made 11 digs and 3 aces in the team's most recent victory over Loyola.
Tuesday, October 31
Jammer Alumna Lena Yee on #1 Big East Conference Team
Jammers Alumna Lena Yee's team at St. John's University is the number 1 team in the Big East Division I conference. The team is undefeated in conference play. Their only loss this season was in out-of-conference play against USC. The Red Storn is now 25-1. Sophomore Lena has been the starting libero for the team for two years. The team is captained by Moanalua team mate Patti Hardimon who has been Big East player of the week twice this season for her double double performances. Lena is #4 in the Big East for number of digs this season. We are all looking forward to the team playing in their first ever NCAA tournament in December! Click on the title to read more about the Red Storm.
| | Lena Yee-- Jammers alumna. at St. John's University. | |
Friday, October 6
Jammers In College
| |  | | Tricia -- Jammers alumna at Oregon State. |
Leading off the news for the first week of October, 2006, is Lena Yee. Lena is a sophomore at St. John's University. She is in her second season as starting libero for this Division I team in New York. For the first time in the history of the women's volleyball team, St. John's received votes in the AVCA weekly poll for the top 25 programs in the country. Today, October 6, 2006, Lena made 27 digs and 3 aces in the 20th win for the season for St. John's. The team has a 20-1 record for 2006, their best record ever. Click on Lena's picture for more information about St. John's. For more information about Lena click on her name.
On the West Coast, Tricia Yoshimura is the starting libero for Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregaon. Trish is playing with fellow Aloha Region player Camilla Ah Hoy, also a freshman, who is the setter for the team. For more information about Trish, click on her name. Or click on her picture for news about her team.
In the South, Jammers Kathleen Hicks has had significant playing time for the U. of North Carolina at Charlotte women's volleyball team. Kathleen is a middle blocker freshman who is hitting .357 (wow!) and contributing 1.85 points per game. For more information about Kat, click on her name. Or click on her picture for news about her team.
Kaui Robello is a freshman at Sienna College. She is number five in hitting for the women's volleyball team. For more information about Kaui, click on her name.
Jessamy Holland is a freshman at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Oregon. The middle blocker is also #5 in kills for her team. For more information about Jessamy, click on her name.
Brandi Higa is in her second season at Fairfield Connecticut. Brandi is starting libero at this East Coast team which has a healthy number of players from Hawaii. For more information about Brandi, click on her name.
 | | Kat Hicks -- Jammers alumna at U. of North Carolina |
 | | Deven -- Jammer Alumna at Cal State Fullerton | |
Friday, October 13
Deven Bukoski -- Outside Hitter for Cal State Fullerton; Morgen Sullivan at Colorado School of Mines
| |  | | Morgen Sullivan -- Jammers Alumna at Colorado School of Mines |
Freshman Deven Bukoski is an outside hitter at California State College in Fullerton. Deven is consistenly scoring double-double in matches -- double digits in hitting and digs. For more about Deven, click on her name. For more information about her school, click on Deven's picture.
Freshman Morgen Sullivan is playing middle and right side for the Colorado School of Mines. Morgen recently scored 6 kills in her team's game against Colorado State University Pueblo. Morgen has played in 26 sets so far this season. She has served 90 times and made only 3 service errors. Her parents recently wrote, "We know that you were a huge part of her getting a scholarship and we will always be thankful that she played for Jammers and had you in her corner pushing for excellence and talking to coaches." For more about Morgen's team, click on her picture.
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