Stephanie Bacan

Position:
Defensive Specialist
Height:
6-1
Class:
Senior
High School:
St. Mary's
Hometown:
Remsen, Iowa

2005
Earned third letter . . . played in 27 of BSU’s 31 matches, earning 14 starts . . . saw action in 96 of a possible 115 games . . . tied a career-high with 17 digs in back-to-back contests vs. Bowling Green (Sept. 24) and vs. Toledo (Sept. 29) . . . collected 10-or-more digs in 19 contests . . . tallied a season-high three service aces in four matches, while handing out a season-best three assists four times . . . recorded a season-best two kills in BSU’s MAC Tournament Quarterfinal victory over Miami (Nov. 18) . . . tied for first on the squad with a 0.28 aces-per-game average, collecting 27 on the year.

2004
Earned second letter . . . played in 28 of BSU’s 30 matches, recording 16 starts . . . saw action in 101 of the team’s 110 games . . . recorded a career-high 17 digs vs. Florida A&M (Sept. 12) and vs. Northern Illinois (Nov. 19) after converting to a defensive specialist . . . tied a career-high with four assists in four matches . . . tallied a career-best four service aces in the semifinals of the 2004 Mid-American Conference Tournament vs. Marshall (Nov. 20) . . . posted 10-or-more digs in eight matches and eight-or-more digs in 15 matches.

2004
Earned first letter . . . saw limited action during the 2003 season due to injury . . . played in and started nine of the Cardinals’ first 10 matches before missing the remainder of the season . . . saw action in 32 games . . . recorded career-highs of 10 kills, four block assists and four total blocks in two matches - - at No. 18 Ohio State (Sept. 3) and at New Hampshire (Sept. 6) . . . added a career-best .240 (10-4-25) attack percentage vs. the Buckeyes . . . dug a career-best five balls vs. the Wildcats . . . scored a pair of solo blocks vs. South Carolina (Sept. 30).

2002
Received a medical redshirt for the 2002 season . . . member of the BSU squad that won the 2002 MAC Regular Season Championship, the 2002 MAC Tournament Championship and earned a berth into the 2002 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship . . . played in two matches and five games for Ball State after suffering a knee injury in the season opener vs. No. 3 USC (Aug. 31).

High School
Earned four letters in volleyball at St. Mary’s . . . played volleyball for Coach Carla Weber . . . named to Iowa All-Star Team as a senior . . . honored as all-state, All-Northwest Iowa, all-district, all-county and all-conference as a junior and senior . . . named team MVP as a junior and a senior . . . set the school mark for kills in a match with 36 during her junior season . . . recorded 393 kills and 292 digs during her senior season . . . four-year letterwinner in softball and track . . . three-time all-state and four-time team leading hitter for St. Mary’s softball program . . . won the state high jump competition as a senior and finished runner-up as a junior . . . placed third in the state high jump as a freshman . . . posted a 3.84 grade-point average on the school’s 4.0 scale . . . admitted to Ball State with a Presidential Scholarship.

Personal
Major is sport administration . . . graduated with a 3.800 grade-point average on BSU’s 4.0 scale last spring . . . born February 1, 1984, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa . . . daughter of Tom and Bev Bacan . . . father played football at Northern Iowa . . . has one brother, Brett . . . brother ran cross country and track at South Dakota . . . full name is Stephanie May Bacan.