3 Gators named All-Americans!
December 14, 2005
University of Florida senior outside hitter Jane Collymore was named a First Team All-American, while sophomore setter Angie McGinnis was a Third Team choice and sophomore middle blocker Kisya Killlingsworth was an honorable mention selection as announced by the American Volleyball Coaches Association on Wednesday.
Florida has now had at least three All-Americans in five consecutive seasons and the trio of honorees in 2005 increases the total number of All-America honors in Mary Wise's 15 seasons as head coach to 35. The honor is the third for Collymore after she was a third-team selection in 2004 and an honorable mention choice in 2003. The honor is the first for both McGinnis and Killingsworth.
Collymore became the fourth outside hitter in school history to be named a first team All-American as she joined Aury Cruz (2001-03), Jenny Manz (1998) and Gudula Staub (1991-92). She extends Florida's streak of having at least one outside hitter named to any All-America team to seven straight years and nine of the last 10. She boosted Florida's all-time total of All-America honors by outside hitters to 17 in Wise's tenure. Collymore also became the fifth player in UF annals to earn All-American honors in three seasons as Cruz (2000-03), Benavia Jenkins (2001-03), Nicole McCray (2000-02) and Aycan Gokberk (1993-95) preceded her. The two-time Southeastern Conference Player of the Year (2004-05) was named a tournament MVP four times this season, including the SEC Tournament. Collymore became just the second player in school history to record more than one 500-kill season and the sixth to reach 1,000 kills and digs in a career. Collymore led the SEC in 2005 with 4.62 kills per game and 0.62 aces per game in conference matches. She ended her stay in Gainesville ranked in the school's all-time top 10 in 51 different categories, including second in attacks (4,076), third in aces (176), fourth in kills (1,629) and points (1,944.0), fifth in kills per game (3.79), tied for fifth in service aces per game (0.41), sixth in points per game (4.52), tied for seventh in digs per game (2.63) and eighth in digs (1,131).
McGinnis is just the third Florida setter to be named an All-American and the first since Jen Sanchez in 1998. In 2005, she set school records by a setter in kills per game (1.21) and hitting percentage (.394). Her assist average (13.46) ranked as the third best in school history and the most ever by a sophomore. Entering the final weekend of play, her average was the ninth-best in the nation this season and tops in the SEC. McGinnis' points per game average (1.72) was also the second best by a setter in school history. She set Florida to season hitting efficiency of .301 - the eighth highest in both Florida history and in the nation in 2005. McGinnis was named to All-Tournament team in all six tournaments UF played in. She also became the first player in school history to record a triple-double in 2005 when she finished with 59 assists, 22 digs and 10 kills at Tennessee. With two more seasons to play, McGinnis is already ranked sixth in Florida history in assists (2,844), while her average of 12.26 assists per game stands as the top mark in Gator history.
Killingsworth ran Florida's streak of having at least one All-American middle blocker to six straight years and 10 out of the last 13 years. Florida now has a total of 15 All-America honors by middle blockers in Wise's stay as head coach. Along with McGinnis, Killingsworth joined Collymore (2003), Cruz (2001), Jenkins (2001), McCray (2000) and Gokberk (1993) as the only sophomores in school history to be named All-Americans. Killingsworth's hitting efficiency of .408 was tops in the SEC, sixth-best in the nation, sixth-best in school history overall and the second-best by a sophomore. In Florida history, her season totals are scattered throughout the sophomore record book, including fourth in block solos (31), block assists (121), total blocks (152), tied for fourth in blocks per game (1.30), fifth in points per game (4.32), sixth in points (506.5), sixth in kills per game (3.45) and seventh in kills (404). She hit above .400 in 19 matches in 2005, including a torrid stretch to close the season in which she hit above. 400 in 10 of her last 13 matches.
