| Whitney Behrens |
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Sophomore
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| Hometown:
St. Louis, Mo.
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| High School:
Incarnate Word
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| Height:
5-4
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| Position:
L
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2007 • SOPHOMORE
Named MVP of the Radisson Hotel Invitational at Bradley ... also earned Santo Bento Volleyball Invitational MVP accolades ... selected to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Second Team ... was a team co-captain ... played in all 109 games ... finished seventh among all A-10 players with 3.90 digs per game ... her team-best 425 digs in 2007 rank 14th on SLU's single-season chart ... recorded double-digit digs in all but five matches (each was a three-game match) ... enters the 2008 campaign in 11th place on SLU's career digs list with 960 ... bidding to become the fastest Billiken to reach 1,000 career digs ... had a team-high 182 digs in conference-only matches ... had seven 20-dig matches in 2007 ... had a career-high three service aces, 20 digs and an assist against Xavier in the season finale ... recorded a season and match-high 24 digs in the A-10 Championship opener against George Washington ... tied for match-high honors with 13 digs in the win at Pittsburgh ... led all players with 21 digs at Rhode Island ... posted a match-best 20 digs in SLU's regular-season victory over Xavier ... turned in a match-high 16 digs in the Fordham win ... registered a match-best 17 digs in the Drake match ... led all players with 11 digs in the win over Western Michigan ... earned match-high accolades with 16 digs in the SEMO win ... collected a match-high 10 digs in the season-opening win over Louisiana-Monroe.
2006 • FRESHMAN
Finished the season with 535 digs, the third-most in a single season in program history and the most by a freshman ... selected to the A-10 All-Rookie team ... ranked third in the league in digs per game at 4.67 ... recorded at least 20 digs nine times ... notched eight digs at Purdue in the NCAA Tournament ... had 18 digs and an assist in the A-10 Championship title match against Dayton ... registered 19 digs and two assists versus Temple ... finished with 17 digs and four assists against Fordham in the A-10 Championship ... registered 20 digs, one ace and one assist at Xavier ... registered 16 digs with two assists against Rhode Island ... notched a match-high 22 digs at Duquesne to go along with two aces and one assist ... notched 17 digs against SEMO ... had a match-high 17 digs with one assist and one ace against Xavier ... dug 12 balls and had one kill against Dayton ... had a match-high 12 digs against Duquesne ... registered 17 digs at Fordham ... notched 14 digs and an ace at Rhode Island ... had a match-high 14 digs against George Washington ... led the team with nine digs in the sweep of Charlotte ... posted 27 digs at Illinois State ... had 23 digs in the win over Temple ... notched a match-high 18 digs with one ace and one assist against La Salle ... notched 12 digs against Loyola ... tied for the team lead with eight digs against Oakland but, for the first time in the season, did not reach double figures in digs ... finished the Jacksonville State match with 17 digs and had three assists ... had 15 digs and three assists at Middle Tennessee State ... registered 21 digs and two assists against Creighton ... credited with 15 digs, one assist and one kill against Illinois-Chicago ... was named to the Billiken Invitational All-Tournament team ... dug 18 balls and served an ace versus LSU ... notched 20 digs and an assist against Texas A&M ... had a match-high 19 digs with an ace and an assist against No. 22 Minnesota ... named to Northern Illinois' Comfort Inn and Suites Invitational All-Tournament team ... registered 22 digs and two assists against Eastern Kentucky ... posted 20 digs and two assists at Northern Illinois ... finished the Western Illinois contest with 19 digs and five assists.
AT INCARNATE WORD
Helped the Red Knights win three straight state championships ... was team captain as a senior and led team to 36-2-1 record ... earned All-America honors from PrepVolleyball.com ... earned All-State, All-Region and All-District honors her senior year ... St. Louis Post-Dispatch first-team All-Metro selection ... led team with 487 digs ... only had three service reception errors in 499 serve receive attempts and led the metro area in serve reception percentage ... earned the Presidential Academic Award and was an All-America Scholar ... First Honors every semester at IWA ... selected for the USAA National Leadership Merit Award ... chosen Academic All-State ... earned the Yale Club of St. Louis Book Award.
PERSONAL
Born June 21, 1988, in St. Louis ... daughter of Linda and Bob Behrens ... has an older sister, Ashley ... majoring in nutrition and dietetics.
