LEXINGTON, Ky. - Frostburg State University volleyball senior
Brooke Winterling (Glenelg, Md./Glenelg) earned her third award this week to go along with a trip to the 2009 NCAA Tournament, Thursday. The Bobcat standout was named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Mid-Atlantic Region team while FSU head coach
Peter Letourneau was selected as the Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year.
Earlier this week, Winterling earned her third Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Player of the Year award and was selected to the all-conference first team for the fourth-straight year. She was named the AMCC's Player of the Week on Monday after helping the Bobcats to their third-straight AMCC Tournament title last weekend.
Winterling led the AMCC and finished the season with 575 kills, good for fourth all-time in a single season in FSU history. She is third in the country in kills per set, averaging 4.62 and has helped the Bobcats to 29th in the country in kills per set as a team (12.63). Winterling is FSU's all-time career kills leader (2,204) and has 1,100 digs and 161 service aces to her credit.
Letourneau earned Coach of the Year honors after leading the Bobcats to their third-consecutive NCAA Tournament. FSU finished the season 30-5 overall and a perfect 10-0 in the AMCC. Letourneau reached two significant personal milestones earlier this season, earning his 100th career victory with a 3-0 win over Franciscan on Oct. 14. He topped that achievement three days later when he became Frostburg State's all-time winningest coach with a sweep of D'Youville on Oct. 17.
Frostburg State's season came to end yesterday afternoon as it lost to No. 24 Eastern 3-1 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.