2011 All-PacWest Women's Volleyball Team
Phoenix, AZ -- After taking center stage all season for the Academy of Art women's volleyball team, capped off by an incredible performance on Senior Night a week ago, seniors Amy Bush and Leinani Keanini both captured postseason PacWest honors for their efforts in the 2011 season. The honors were announced Thursday on the PacWest Magazine Radio Show.
Keanini was named to the All-PacWest Second Team as an outside hitter, and Bush recieved her second consecutive All-PacWest Honorable Mention. Both seniors had stellar years for the Urban Knights, and the postseason honors are the perfect topper for their ART U careers, especially after their farewell performance last Friday.
Keanini, who made the switch from defense last year to offense in 2011, made it look like she's been playing outside hitter for her whole career, putting up 21 kills in the victory over Notre Dame de Namur, a team-high for this year. She also held on to her defensive roots, putting up 29 digs, a team-high for a four-set match. She ranks second in program history with 746 digs, and first in digs per set, and amassed 259 kills in only two years.
Keanini, a native of Kailua, HI, finishes the year leading the Urban Knights in games played (100), kills (316) and attempts (952), and digs (359). She was eighth in the PacWest in kills per set (3.16) and points per set (3.49), and was sixth in overall kills. Keanini also made the top 10 in digs, making 3.59 digs per set, good for seventh in the conference, while her 359 digs ranked fourth overall. She will graduate with a degree in Fashion Merchandising.
Bush was a All-PacWest Honorable Mention in 2010 after leading the PacWest in hitting percentage as a junior, and in 2011 ended up with another top-10 finish in hitting, notching a .302 mark with 145 kills. She also tied her own program record with 11 total blocks in one match, which she accomplished in 2011 (Nov. 3) and in 2009 (Oct. 5), both against Hawaii Pacific. Bush had 68 total blocks this season, good for 0.82 per set, which led the team.
Bush ended her 2011 with a 10-kill, four-block night, and finishes her career as the all-time program leader in hitting percentage has totaling the second-most kills in program history with 545. She also ends her tenure as the Knights' most prolific blocker, notching 39 solo blocks and 208 block assists. Bush will also graduate with a degree in Fashion Merchandising.
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