![]() Iceman also picks up her first AVCA All-America accolades after also earning her first All-Big Ten honors this season. She finished the season ranked second on the team in defense with 2.92 digs per game and fourth on the squad in blocks per game, averaging 0.91. Tortorello ranks finished the year ranked third on the single-season assist chart (1,739) and currently sits in fifth on the all-time Nittany Lion assist list with 3,077 assists. The sophomore setter directed the Nittany Lion offense this season with 13.48 assists per game, second only to Michelle Jaworski on the single-season charts (14.04 assists per game in 1990). Tortorello earns her first AVCA All-America honor after picking up First Team All-Big Ten honors earlier this season. ![]() This season she led the Nittany Lions in hitting percentage (.381) and ranked second in both kills per game (3.84) and blocks per game (1.16). Smith ranks fourth all-time in hitting percentage (.367) and sits at fourth on the Penn State total blocks list with 572. She ranks 10th on the single-season kill chart with 495 kills and sits at ninth on the career-kill list, finishing with 1,330 kills. 381 mark and is one of only four players in school history to record more than 1,000 career kills and 500 career blocks. The middle hitter led the Big Ten in hitting percentage with a. Smith picks up her second AVCA All-America honor as she was awarded second team status last season. Head coach Russ Rose has now coached at least one All-America selection in 23 of his 25 seasons at Penn State. The selections bring Penn State's total number of All-America selections to 38 since 1979 and the three honorees in one season tie the Nittany Lion record, set in 1990 and again in 1994, 19. ![]() Senior Cara Smith (Lafayette, Ind.) was named to the first team while sophomore Sam Tortorello (Shorewood, Ill.) picked up second team honors and senior Erin Iceman (Wooster, Ohio) earned honorable mention accolades. 17, 2003 - Three Penn State women's volleyball players have been tabbed as All-America selections, the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced today. ![]()
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