FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
S-022-07-08
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Kelly Downs Ranked Among NCAA Division III Volleyball Statistical Leaders

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College senior Kelly Downs (Airville, PA/Red Lion) is ranked in the latest NCAA Division III volleyball statistics, through games of Sept. 23.

Downs ranks 10th in Division III in hitting percentage (.415) and is 32nd in blocks per game (1.38) for the Blue Jays, who improved to 13-2 overall and 2-0 in the Commonwealth Conference with a 3-2 victory over Messiah College on Wednesday night.

Downs, who leads the Blue Jays in kills (207) and blocks (77) this season, ranks second in program history with 1,228 career kills and is tied for fourth in career blocks with 481. She is 67 kills shy of tying the record of 1,295 career kills set by Liz Bishard from 1994 to 1997.

Elizabethtown returns to action on Friday at the two-day Tufts/MIT Invitational.