Sarah Allen

Class:
Redshirt Senior
Position:
L
Height:
5-9
Hometown:
Mechanicsburg, Pa.
High School:
Mechanicsburg

5th Year/Senior (2004)... Injured at Purdue (11/6), ending a streak of 70-straight matches and 231-straight games played ... Competed in her 100th match with the Wolverines at Indiana (11/5) ... Had a season-high two aces against Wisconsin (10/23) ... Tied a career high with 23 digs and two kills vs. Indiana (10/2) ... Had 15 digs at No. 1 Minnesota (9/25) ... Had 20 digs and five assists in the tournament final against No. 22 Tennessee (9/18) ... Had 16 digs against Western Michigan (9/17) ... Recorded 13 digs and a service ace against Florida State (9/11) in the championship match of the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Had a season high 21 digs vs. Eastern Michigan (9/10) at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Led Michigan with 16 digs in the championship match of the Manhattan College Invitational against American University (9/4) … Recorded nine digs and a service ace at Manhattan (9/4) in the Manhattan College Invitational … Had 12 digs in the season opener at Valparaiso (9/1).

Senior/Junior (2003)... Saw action in every match as the starting libero ... Ranked second on the team with a career-best 2.80 digs per game average ... Notched 10 or more digs in 20 outings, including a career-high 23 at No. 16 Penn State (Nov. 14). In her career, she has 21 matches with 10 or more digs ... Topped the 10-dig mark a career-high 10 straight matches from Oct. 17-Nov. 16 ... Recorded her first career 20-dig match with a career-high 23 at No. 16 Penn State (Nov. 14) ... Was credited with 62 assists, a career high. Entering the campaign she only had eight assists in her career ... Tallied a career-high five assists vs. No. 16 Louisville in the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge (Sept. 7) and at No. 16 Penn State (Nov. 14) ... Recorded four kills, the only ones of her career, including a career-high two terminations at Iowa (Oct. 25).

Junior/Sophomore (2002)... Played primarily as a defensive specialist or libero ... Played libero and contributed six digs in NCAA Tournament First Round at #22 Kansas State (Dec. 6) ... Recorded seven digs against Northwestern (Nov. 30) ... Contributed six digs and career-high two assists against #15 Wisconsin (Nov. 29) ... Posted four digs and tied career high with one assist in two games against #6 Minnesota (Nov. 15) ... Recorded seven digs at #18 Wisconsin (Oct. 19) ... Earned a season- and career-high 13 digs and first career block at Northwestern (Oct. 18) ... Tied career high and set season high with one assist at Iowa (Sept. 27) ... Posted a season- and career-high three service aces against Bowling Green (Sept. 10) ... Earned a then-season- and then-career-high seven digs against Cincinnati (Sept. 6).

Sophomore/Freshman (2001)... Made career debut vs. No. 7 UCLA (Aug. 31) at the Hawaiian Airlines Classic in Honolulu, Hawaii ... Set a career high with four digs at Northwestern (Sept. 21) ... Followed the next night with three digs at No. 9 Wisconsin (Sept. 22) ... Recorded a career-high one assist three times.

Freshman (2000)... Redshirted.

Prep... Mechanicsburg High School (2000) ... Honor Roll ... Student Council ... Earned Mid-Penn Conference volleyball MVP all-district and The Sentinel Volleyball Player of the Year honors as a senior (1999) ... Virginia Beach Invitational MVP (1999) ... Mid-Penn Conference second team selection (1998) ... 2000 Mid-Penn honorable mention and All-Sentinel second team basketball ... Mid-Penn all-state soccer (2000) ... Two-year volleyball letterwinner (1998-99) and three-year basketball and soccer letterwinner (1998-2000).

Personal... Enrolled in the Division of Kinesiology ... Majoring in movement science ... Birthday: September 9, 1982 ... Daughter of Cyril Allen III and Jeanmarie Bowman ... Both parents are former Michigan student-athletes: father played football (1976-79), mother played basketball (1976-78).

Statistics

Year	MP	GP	K	E	TA	Pct.	A	SA	Dig	BS	BA	TBlk	Kpg
2000	Redshirted
2001	15	32	0	0	0	.000	3	0	15	0	0	0	0.00
2002	28	80	0	0	1	.000	5	3	82	0	1	1	0.00
2003	33	122	4	1	11	.273	62	0	342	0	0	0	0.03
2004	25	90	4	2	17	.118	48	11	337	0	0	0	0.04
Career	101	324	8	2	28	.214	118	14	776	0	1	1	0.02