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season as she had four top-10<br />
finishes, including a firstplace<br />
finish at the Mount<br />
Mercy Mustang Gallop.<br />
Schnell also qualified for<br />
the NCAA National Championships<br />
after a 10 th place<br />
finish at the NCAA regionals.<br />
Schnell, just the third<br />
kohawk female runner to run<br />
at nationals, placed 65 th out<br />
of 280 runners with a time of<br />
22:40.7.<br />
women’S tenniS<br />
winS Second Straight<br />
iiac title<br />
The <strong>Coe</strong> women’s tennis team<br />
had its most successful season<br />
ever in the Iowa Conference<br />
this fall, going 8-0 in conference<br />
play and 12-0 overall.<br />
Along the way, the kohawks<br />
won the conference championship<br />
for just the second<br />
time ever. This year’s team<br />
proved to be one of the top<br />
teams in the nation after<br />
dominating nearly every team<br />
on the schedule and having<br />
a combined singles record of<br />
93-12.<br />
Along with the championship<br />
from the team tournament,<br />
<strong>Coe</strong> also had many<br />
high finishes in the individual<br />
tournament. Flight A singles<br />
saw four <strong>Coe</strong> players in the<br />
semifinals with Molly Fiala<br />
’09 defeating Andrea Schupbach<br />
’09, and second-seeded<br />
Hannah Jensen ’11 defeating<br />
Hillary Allen ’09 by identical<br />
6-2, 6-0 scores. Fiala defeated<br />
<strong>Coe</strong> <strong>College</strong> Courier<br />
Molly Fiala ’09 became the first three-time women’s tennis MVP in Iowa<br />
Conference history.<br />
Jensen 7-5, 6-2 to capture her<br />
second individual singles title<br />
in three years, while Schupbach<br />
defeated Allen 6-3, 6-0<br />
for third place.<br />
In Flight A doubles, Fiala and<br />
Schupbach topped teammates<br />
Allen and Jensen 9-7 in an<br />
all-<strong>Coe</strong> championship match.<br />
It is Fiala’s second doubles<br />
title in three years. Fiala won<br />
both the singles and doubles<br />
championships as a freshman,<br />
but did not play in the<br />
tournaments last season as she<br />
competed at the ITA National<br />
Championships.<br />
Fiala was named the 2007<br />
IIAC Most Valuable Player<br />
for the third consecutive year,<br />
becoming the first threetime<br />
women’s tennis MVP<br />
in conference history. She<br />
reached the semifinals in both<br />
the singles and doubles draws<br />
at the ITA Midwest region<br />
Championship. She posted a<br />
16-1 overall singles record,<br />
with her lone loss coming<br />
in the semifinals of the ITA<br />
regional.<br />
Head Coach Eric rodgers<br />
also took home post-season<br />
honors, being named Iowa<br />
Conference Coach of the Year<br />
for the second consecutive<br />
season. This is his fifth Coach<br />
of the Year award, with three<br />
of those coming with the<br />
men’s team from 2003-2005.<br />
Volleyball finiSheS<br />
record-breaKing<br />
SeaSon<br />
With the kohawks’ 20-12 record<br />
this season, Head Coach<br />
DeAnn Woodin’s squad put<br />
together the first back-to-back<br />
20-win seasons since 1986-87<br />
for the <strong>Coe</strong> volleyball program.<br />
Woodin has led the<br />
team to a 46-20 record in her<br />
first two seasons.<br />
The kohawks started the season<br />
10-3, with all three losses<br />
coming to teams that eventually<br />
qualified for the NCAA<br />
Tournament. <strong>Coe</strong> took a 4-0<br />
conference record into Pella<br />
to face the 21 st -ranked Central<br />
Dutch in a battle for the<br />
Iowa Conference championship.<br />
<strong>Coe</strong> won the first game<br />
before dropping the next two.<br />
With their backs to the wall,<br />
the kohawks won game four,<br />
forcing a fifth and final game<br />
before falling 15-13.<br />
<strong>Coe</strong> went on to finish 6-2 in<br />
the Iowa Conference, which<br />
was good for the second seed<br />
in the conference tournament.<br />
After a first round bye, <strong>Coe</strong><br />
topped third-seeded Wartburg<br />
in the semifinals to advance to<br />
the first conference volleyball<br />
championship match in<br />
school history. Central was<br />
too much to handle this<br />
time around, winning 3-0<br />
and earning the conference’s<br />
automatic berth in the NCAA<br />
Tournament.<br />
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