11 Savannah Smith
Fourth year at San Josi State...ranks seventh among SJSU career leaders in assists with 1,588.
2000: Averaged 13.17 assists per game in her first season as the team's top setter... recorded 60 or more assists in six matches including a career high 73 at Rice...added 70 against UTEP...team leader in digs with 358, 3.15 pg...had 86 kills, 0.75 pg, 89 blocks, 0.77 pg, and 16 service aces...a season high 26 digs against UTEP...career high eight blocks at Tulsa...had five or more blocks in six matches...recorded 10 or more digs in 19 matches and 20 or more digs in two matches...her 1,515 assists season assists ranks third on the San Jos State single season list.
1999: Played in 21 matches and 60 games...saw most of her action as a defensive specialist... recorded 83 digs, 1.38 pg...season high 12 assists at Rice...had 11 blocks...recorded her first collegiate blocks against Tulsa...had a season high five blocks against Hawaii...season high 15 digs at Tulsa.
1998: Played in 31 matches and 96 games...used mostly as a defensive specialist for the season... had 171 digs, 1.78 pg, and 33 assists...career high 16 digs at Nevada...led the team with 15 digs at Saint Mary’s...had four assists against CS Fullerton and Colorado.
HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year starting setter at Sprague High School for head coach Jason Holt...three-time first team all-Valley League...1996 third-team all-state selection...league’s Most Valuable Player in 1996...Regional Player of the Year in 1996...holds the school record for assists in a three-game match with 55...member of the Emerald City Volleyball Club...was a club teammate of current Spartan assistant coach Joslynn Gallop...lettered one year in softball.
PERSONAL: A child development major with a minor in deaf education...would like to teach deaf children after graduation...enjoys snowboarding, wakeboarding and water skiing...favorite movie is "Can't Buy Me Love"...favorite comedian is Mike Myers...an only child...daughter of Guy and Suzanne Colby and Mark Smith...Savannah J. Smith was born on June 29, 1980, in Corvallis, Oregon.
Career Statistics
YEAR MP GP K E TA PCT. AST SA DIG BS BA TB
1998 31 96 3 4 18 -.056 33 0 171 0 0 0
1999 21 60 4 0 16 .250 40 3 83 1 10 11
2000 32 115 86 24 228 .272 1515 16 358 5 84 89
Totals 84 271 93 28 262 .248 1588 19 612 6 94 100
Career Highs
6 KILLS Three times
18 ATTEMPTS Long Beach State, 11-30-00
73 ASSISTS Rice, 10-6-00
2 ACES Two opponents
26 DIGS UTEP, 11-10-00
1 BLOCK SOLO Six opponents
8 BLOCK ASSISTS Tulsa, 11-18-00
8 TOTAL BLOCKS Tulsa, 11-18-00