Sarah Pavan
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Sarah Lindsey Pavan is a 6'5" (195 cm) Canadian volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 player, who was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario
Kitchener, Ontario
The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. She attended the University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a public research university located in the city of Lincoln in the U.S. state of Nebraska...

 in Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska
The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....

, USA where she graduated in 2008. In her four years, she was a four-time First Team All-American and led her team to an NCAA title in 2006, an NCAA National runner-up finish in 2005, and two regional final appearances in 2004 and 2007.

Early years

In High School, Sarah was a Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 recruit and the top recruit in the 2004 class. She was a member of the Canadian National Team program. She was named MVP of the 2002 NORCECA Championships, including a 24-kill performance against the U.S. Youth National Team. When Sarah was 16 years old, she made her Senior National Team debut at the 2003 World Grand Prix in Italy. Sarah also starred for the Canadians at the NORCECA Zone Olympic Qualifying Tournament in December 2003, leading Canada to the semifinals. She was dominant at the 2004 NORCECA Continental Championships, leading the tournament with 100 points to pace Canada to a fourth-place finish. Sarah also played for her father, Paul Pavan, at Forest Heights Collegiate Institute
Forest Heights Collegiate Institute
Forest Heights Collegiate Institute is a high school located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada that was established in 1964. The school is often colloquially referred to as FHCI or Forest Heights by the students and other Kitchener locals. It was named after the Forest Heights neighbourhood in which it...

, leading her team to three provincial championships (2002–04), four regional titles and county titles (2001–04). She was named the 2003 and 2004 Waterloo County MVP. Sarah played club volleyball for the Waterloo Tigers, which were also coached by her father, winning five straight Ontario Volleyball Association championships.

Her favorite movie is "Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman is a 1990 romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles, California. Written by J.F. Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall, this motion picture features Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and also Hector Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy, and Jason Alexander in supporting roles. Roberts played the only...

", favorite book is "Voyage of the Jerle Shannara", favorite food is pizza and other hobbies include playing the piano and playing basketball and football.

Even though players from Canada aren't usually included in Prepvolleyball.com's annual 100 "Senior Aces" list, Pavan was a special case, because she was recruited by a number of American universities, such as Stanford, Penn State, and Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

. She was #1 on the list, confirming she was the consensus top recruit for the Class of 2004.

2004 Freshman Year

In 2004, during her Freshman year at Nebraska, Pavan more than lived up to the expectations of being the top recruit, in fact, she arguably had the best freshman season in school history. She became the first freshman to earn first-team AVCA All-America honors since Logan Tom in 1999 and the first Nebraska Cornhusker to ever be named AVCA National Freshman of the Year. Sarah set single-season freshman marks in kills (481) and kills per game (4.54), becoming only the second freshman in school history to lead NU in kills and kills per game since Eileen Shannon in 1989.

She set the NU postseason record for kills (35) and attacks (90) in a five-game loss to USC
USC Volleyball
The USC Trojans women's volleyball team is currently coached by Mick Haley, who began in 2001. Under Haley, USC became the first repeat NCAA Volleyball National Champion in 2002-03 since Stanford in 1996-97...

 in the NCAA Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

 Regional Final, as her 35 kills were the fifth-highest total in school history and the most by a Husker in the rally scoring era.

2005 Sophomore Year

In 2005, Pavan earned AVCA first-team All-America honors for the second year in a row. She led her team to the 2005 NCAA National Championship
2005 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2005 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on December 1, 2005 with 64 teams and concluded on December 17, 2005, when Washington defeated Nebraska 3 games to 0 in San Antonio, Texas for the program's first NCAA title....

, but the Huskers fell in 3 to the University of Washington. Pavan was named to the Final Four All-Tournament team for her efforts.

After averaging 3.82 kills, 1.24 blocks, 1.66 digs and 0.31 aces per game, she became the Big 12 Player of the Year. She was ranked among the Big 12 leaders in hitting percentage (.357, seventh), kills (seventh), blocks (1.24, 10th) and points per game (fifth, 4.79). Pavan totaled four double-doubles, including a triple-double of 11 kills, 11 blocks and 10 digs against Pepperdine on Sept. 9, the first triple-double by a Husker outside hitter since Nancy Metcalf
Nancy Metcalf
Nancy Jean Metcalf is an American indoor volleyball player. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in fifth place with the USA National Team.-Career:Metcalf graduated from the University of Nebraska in December 2001 with a bachelor’s...

 in 1999.

In the 2005 NCAA Tournament
2005 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2005 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on December 1, 2005 with 64 teams and concluded on December 17, 2005, when Washington defeated Nebraska 3 games to 0 in San Antonio, Texas for the program's first NCAA title....

, Sarah Pavan was selected to the NCAA Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

 Regional All-Tournament Team, as she averaged 4.17 kills and 1.50 blocks per game in wins over No. 14 UCLA and No. 4 Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

. In the NCAA national semifinals against Santa Clara
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...

, she had 11 kills on .500 hitting and in the NCAA championship loss against Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

, she had 16 kills on .429 hitting and was named to the Final Four All-Tournament Team.

2006 Junior Year

During her junior year, Pavan turned in arguably the most decorated and accomplished season in Nebraska's history. She helped her team to their third NCAA Title
NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
The NCAA has contested team championships in women's volleyball since 1981. The following is a list of the champions of each division with their record for the year in which they won the championship, and the runner up, city, site and other final four participants for division I...

 and was named AVCA National Player of the Year, Volleyball Magazine National Player of the Year, AVCA First Team All-American, Big 12 Player of the Year, Big 12 Female Athlete of the Year, Volleyball Magazine First Team All-American, the Honda Award winner for volleyball, the Honda-Broderick Cup
Honda-Broderick Cup
The Honda-Broderick Cup is a sports award for college-level female athletes. The awards are voted on by a national panel of more than 1000 collegiate athletic directors. It was first presented by the late Thomas Broderick, owner of a sports apparel company, in 1977, with the first award going to...

 winner, the NCAA Championship match MVP and the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament team.

She led the Big 12 in points per game (5.98) and kills (5.10) while hitting .313 on the season. She averaged 1.00 blocks and 1.50 digs per game. Pavan's 586 kills ranked as the second-best total in UNL history. She eclipsed 1,000 career kills in 236 games, the fastest by any Husker in history, bettering the previous best of 238 games by Nancy Metcalf.

In the 2006 NCAA Tournament
2006 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 2006 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on November 30, 2006 with 64 teams and concluded on December 16, 2006, when top ranked Nebraska defeated second ranked Stanford 3 sets to 1 in Omaha, Nebraska for the program's third NCAA title....

, she was also named to the NCAA Gainesville
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...

 Regional All-Tournament team after totaling 35 kills and four aces in two matches, including 20 kills and three aces in the regional final against No. 9 Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

. on December 16, she totaled 22 kills on .378 hitting, a season high 13 digs, and three blocks against Stanford
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 in the NCAA championship match.

2007 Senior Year

Pavan was named a first team All-American for the fourth consecutive year, and was a Today's Top VIII
Today's Top VIII Award
The Today's Top VIII Award is given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to honor eight outstanding senior student-athletes of the preceding calendar year. From 1973 through 1985, this award was known as the Today's Top V Award or the Top Five Award and was given to honor five...

 winner for the Class of 2007. She was named the Big 12 Volleyball Player of the Year for a conference-record third time. She also earned her second consecutive Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year honor. She becomes the first player in Big 12 history to earn four different individual awards in a career—player of the year (2005–07) and freshman of the year (2004). In league play, she averaged 5.95 points, 4.95 kills and 0.58 service aces while compiling five of her six double-doubles this season. She finished off her Husker career with over 2,000 kills, which she reached in her final match of her career. She became just the fourth player in NCAA history to be named an AVCA First Team All-American all four years of her career.

She helped lead the Huskers to the Elite Eight
Elite Eight
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 in NCAA play. In the Sweet Sixteen round, the Huskers rallied from a 0-2 deficit against Michigan State to win the fifth game, only to ultimately fall to Cal
California Golden Bears
The California Golden Bears is the nickname used for 29 varsity athletic programs and various club teams of the University of California, Berkeley...

 in the Elite Eight round. The loss snapped their 2 year Final Four
Final four
Final Four isa sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament, most notably NCAA Division I college basketball tournaments. The term usually refers to the four teams who compete in the two games of a single-elimination tournament's semi-final round...

 appearance streak.

In June 2008, she was named the Big 12 Female Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year, and joined former Texas softball player Cat Osterman
Cat Osterman
Catherine Leigh "Cat" Osterman , is an American athlete and was one of the pitchers on the USA Women's Softball Team which won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the silver medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics....

 as the only two-time winners.

2008

Sarah signed a contract worth $150,000 to play professionally in Conegliano
Conegliano
Conegliano is a town and comune of the Veneto region, Italy, in the province of Treviso, about north by rail from the town of Treviso. The population of the city is of around 36,000 people. The remains of a castle that was built in the 10th century remain on a nearby hill...

, Italy
Italy
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 with Spes Volley Conegliano team (A1 National Championship).

2011

Sarah returned to the national team at the 2011 Pan-American Cup
2011 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The 2011 Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the tenth edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, played by twelve countries over July 1–9, 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico...

, winning the Best Scorer award, and finishing 7th with her team.

Clubs

Zoppas Industries Conegliano (2008–2010) Korea Expressway Zenith (2010–2011) MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese
Gruppo Sportivo Oratorio Villa Cortese
Gruppo Sportivo Oratorio Villa Cortese is an Italian volleyball club based in Villa Cortese in the Province of Milan. The team plays in Serie A1 of women's Italian National League.-Team 2011-2012:As of August 2011Coach: Marcello Abbondanza...

 (2011–2012)

Individuals

  • 2011 Pan-American Cup "Best Scorer"
  • 2011 NORCECA Championship "Best Scorer"

High School

  • 2002 NORCECA Championships Most Valuable Player
  • 2003 Waterloo County All Star (basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

    )
  • 2003 Waterloo County Most Valuable Player
  • 2004 Volleyball Magazine "Fab 50" recruit
  • 2004 Prepvolleyball.com top "Senior Ace"
  • 2004 Waterloo County Most Valuable Player
  • 2004 Waterloo County All Star (basketball)
  • 2004 First Team Honors (basketball)

College

  • Four-time AVCA First Team All-American (2004-05-06-07)
  • Four-time AVCA First Team All-Central Region (2004-05-06-07)
  • Four-time First Team All-Big 12 (2004-05-06-07)
  • Four-time NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team (2004-05-06-07)
  • Three-time Big 12 Player of the Year (2005–06-07)
  • Two-time ESPN the Magazine All-sports Academic All-American of the Year (2006–07, 2007–08)
  • Two-time Big 12 Female Athlete of the Year (2007–08)
  • Two-time Volleyball Magazine National Player of the Year (2006–07)
  • Two-time NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team (2005–06)

  • 2004 AVCA National Freshman of the Year
  • 2004 AVCA Central Region Freshman of the Year
  • Ameritas Players Challenge and Nebraska Invitational MVP
  • 2004 Big 12 Freshman of the Year
  • 2004 AVCA National Player of the Week (Nov. 29)
  • 2006-07 Honda-Broderick Cup
    Honda-Broderick Cup
    The Honda-Broderick Cup is a sports award for college-level female athletes. The awards are voted on by a national panel of more than 1000 collegiate athletic directors. It was first presented by the late Thomas Broderick, owner of a sports apparel company, in 1977, with the first award going to...

     Winner
  • 2006 Honda Award for Volleyball
  • 2006 AVCA National Player of the Year
  • 2006 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American of the Year (4.00 GPA in Biochemistry)
  • 2006 NCAA Championship
    NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
    The NCAA has contested team championships in women's volleyball since 1981. The following is a list of the champions of each division with their record for the year in which they won the championship, and the runner up, city, site and other final four participants for division I...

     Most Outstanding Player
  • 2007-08 Today's Top VIII Winner
  • 2007 AVCA National Player of the Week (Aug. 27)
  • 2008 First Team Arthur Ashe Jr. Scholar award
  • 2008 University of Nebraska Female Student Athlete of the Year
  • 2008 Nebraska Chancellor Scholar


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