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Mountaineer Volleyball Notebook: Thomas Earns NCAA Scholarship
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Graduating senior Dianna Thomas became just one of 58 NCAA fall sport student-athletes to earn an NCAA Post-Graduate scholarship. The scholarship is the most recent in a long line of awards for the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American.
The right-side hitter is one of two Southern Conference athletes to earn the $7,500 grant, and is the first Mountaineer since the 2002-03 academic year to win.
Thomas recorded 395 kills, 306 digs and 86 blocks as she helped lead the Mountaineers to a second-place finish in the Southern Conference this season. She hit .255 and became the school's all-time kills leader with 1,476.
Along the way, Thomas was named the SoCon Student-Athlete of the Week on October 31 and was named second team all-conference at season's end. The right side hitter will graduate in May with a degree in exercise science, and has held a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade point average.
2008 SIGNEES ALSO COLLECTING AWARDS
Maggie Seeds was named a second team academic all-American by PrepVolleyball.com. Seeds is a 6-1 outside hitter from Clemmons, N.C. At West Forsyth High School and will suit up for the Mountaineers in the 2008 season.
Setter Kasey Sauls was named to the AVCA High School Senior All-America team. The setter from Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Valley, Kansas will enter Appalachian in the fall. She is just one of two players from Kansas to be named to the team.
SPRING SCHEDULE SET
The Mountaineers have set their spring slate of matches:
March 29 at UNC Charlotte
April 5 at Davidson
April 12 at Wake Forest
April 19 Home Tournament (Elon, Lees-McRae, UNC Charlotte, Radford and Wofford)
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