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The unquestioned go-to
player in the Blackburn offense, Reeter has a team-high 161 kills on
the season for Blackburn, which had a 5-5 record through Oct. 3, and
is second on the team in digs, with 129. She stepped up to record a
team-high 19 kills in Blackburn's sweep of Robert Morris, an NAIA
program, on Sept. 7.
Reeter also came up with 14 kills and eight digs to lead
Blackburn to a three-game win at Westminster on Sept. 16 before
driving home a career-high 24 kills to go along with 12 digs in a
five-game victory against Greenville on Sept. 19. In addition, she
pounded out 15 kills and added 19 digs in a five-game win over NCCAA
power Lincoln Christian on Sept. 23 and led Blackburn with 17 kills
in a three-game sweep of rival MacMurray on Oct. 3. In addition,
Reeter leads Blackburn in service aces with 17.
A transfer from Lincoln Land Community College, Reeter is a 2003
graduate of Mount Pulaski High School, a traditional power in IHSA
Class A volleyball. An honorable mention all-St. Louis
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection a year ago, she is the
daughter of Randy and Sue Reeter.
Reeter's head coach at Blackburn is Kim Fraser, an experienced
leader who has a long resume of success. Fraser came to Blackburn
after five seasons as head volleyball coach at the University of
Illinois-Springfield, where she guided the Stars to a 117-79 record.
UIS received national NAIA ranking in three of her five seasons.
Prior to that, Fraser served from 1994 to 1998 as head volleyball
coach at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, where she
led the Loggers to a 138-93 mark and three appearances in the
postseason playoffs.
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Fraser has also experienced success in coaching
volleyball internationally. In 1995, she led the Illinois Volleyball
All-Stars on a tour of Australia, compiling a 10-2 record on the
trip.
Fraser also serves as head softball coach at Blackburn, is the
school's senior women's administrator and is a faculty member in the
Blackburn Physical Education Department.
Founded in 1837, Blackburn College is a four-year,
Presbyterian-related, co-educational liberal arts college located 40
miles south of Springfield. The college is one of six "work program
colleges" in the nation, with students required to work in jobs
instrumental to the college's daily operations. The work program
receives widespread recognition in American higher education and
helps to keep Blackburn's tuition the lowest of all private colleges
in Illinois and among the lowest in the United States.
For more information on Blackburn College, call 1-800-233-3550,
fax 217-854-3713, send e-mail to
admit@mail.blackburn.edu
or write to Blackburn College, Office of Admissions, 700 College
Ave., Carlinville, IL 62626.
For a look at the college and the
volleyball team, check
http://www.blackburn.edu/.
[Blackburn
College news release] |
