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Show Pae TEE HERALD, Provo, Utah. 23 Sad?, Ocicter 2, I3 SPIKERS: Continued from Page 18 graceful Duncan can spend two or three hours on the court in a tough, five-gamatch, yet come off looking as cool and beautiful as she did at the with nary a sart of the blonde hair out of place. She makes everything look easy. But it isn't "The nest outstanding quality about Dylans is her PUT YOUR: I V" me THE COUGA RS IN tit J tfv" GAME PLAN THI Michaelis said. "Things haven't come as easily for Dylann as people like to think. She has to work for everything she gets, both on the court and in the classroom. "She has simply worked very, very hard to get where she is, and she works hard in every game." Five minutes ir.to a match. Plumb locks likes she's played five games in 90 degree heat Her brur.er.fi hair is plastered to her head, her shirt is plastered to her body and she's probably teen on the floor several times diving for balls. She appears to be the universal example of a self-mad- e player who has to fight for every accomplishment "Jul has talent coming out of her ears." Michaelis said. "She is good at everything y speaking, music, sports. and athletically, she can do anything she wants. She works hard at volleyball, but she may not be as dominating as she could be simply because she has so many demands on her time, so many Mus-ciall- things she is so good at" Duncan's job title is middle blocker. Yet she leads the team in hitting, is BYU's career leader in kills and "is unstoppable at the net all-ti- "The only way Dylann can be stopped at the net is if we don't do the things we need to do for her," Michaelis said. Plumb's title is outside hitter and she hits as hard as anyone in the country. Yet she is, by Michaelis' assessment, the "best blocker on the team." "She's the most intelligent player we've got on the team, which is why she's our best blocker. We usually put her on the other team's best hitter, which is a real because that frees Dyluxury, lann to help out on the other side," Michaelis said. Duncan loves the middle, with its quick hits and myriad of blocking assignments from side to side. one-on-o- 'There's so much going on," she enthused. "It's kind of EASOM. L Jfll S. Plumb Dylann Duncan ter hitting with 503 kis. 26 aces, 23 solo blocks, 53 block assists and 251 digs. But she refuses to take credit for her stats. "It was an amazing year. I could come to a match really unprepared and have a great match," she said. "But that was because of Maikki Salmi, .360 last year's set- an I was ter). because Maikki was so great." Duncan is on track for a "career year" and her goal of first-tea- m honors an this fall. Already, she is hittins with 103 kills. 52 service 113 digs, 23 solo blocks 93 block assists. She is in .352 aces, and the top five in the nation in blocks and kills per game. But she, too, shrugs off the credit "I think I get more credit than I deserve. People see how tall I am and see my stats and think I'm great But it's just that I block with great people. They do so much it mikes it easy for me," she said. Both players have picked up much of the slack left by the departure of six seniors from last year's squad. Plumb, alplayways a great er, had to take over much of the serve receiving, especially early on, and typically, is enthusiastic. "I love to pass that's the most challenging thing there is to do on the court" she said. "It's such a mental thing." all-arou- Duncan, meanwhile, spent last summer piaving on the U.S. National B volleyball team and improved her defense enough to play all around, instead of the front-roonly action she saw through much of her career. That allows her to do some back-rohitting. She also improved the consistency of her w w jump g already-devastatin- boring outside." serve. Plumb loves the outside, where she can get a big swing "I enjoy staying on the Coor. It was tough to keep my con- at the ball. "There's too much going on inside," she said. "My timing is better outside. I love it." Yet this year, both have been willing to play in the other's spot in order to make the BYU attack better. Duncan sets up outside on serve receive "so I can get a good swing," and Plumb sometimes sets up inside to set up particular blocking schemes. "I'll do anything the coach wants," she said. Last year, Plumb had a "ca- reer year," garnering first-tea- honors an m af- - centration when I was going out and coming in." she said. On the scholar side of being scholar-athleteDuncan is an s, Academic de- an spite trying to fit volleyball in with an electrical engineering major and some sort of a social life. She chose her major because "I didn't want to be in something where you did the same thing every day, plus I liked the challenge. There aren't many women in that field." Now she's decided she doesn't want to be an engineer exactlv, but would like to take her degree and go on in "may- nw 7 can put yourself in the middle of exciting cougar basketball this season as the cougars attempt to repeat You be medicine, something to do with prosthesis (artificial limbs i. Or maybe space, that would be excitis. or mavbe in marketing, getting an MBA." Plumb is a music major all the way. She has played the cello and piano since age 8 and has long bad a goal of'playing in a symphony. She makes a success of marriage she mar- ried Terry Plumb last yean, volleyball and a music performance major. "I am supposed to spend five hours a day with volleyball and at least three hours a day with the cello, plus the rest of school and my husband. On paper, I don't see how it works," she said, smiling and shaking her head. "But I find the busier I am the better I am at getting things done. "So it works. Terry helps a lot he really supports me." Typically, each has completely different plans after finishing eligibility at BYU. Plumb plans to hang up her sneakers. She expects to graduate in August and hopes to find a spot with a major symphony i she solos with the BYU Philharmonic in January . "People keep telling me 111 miss volleyball, and I'm sure I will in some ways," Plumb said. "But I'm definitely ready to move on." Duncan will finish her engineering degree in April, but won't be hanging up either her school clothes or her sneakers. She has been united to try out for the UJS. National team in May. Depending on how that works out she'll decide where to continue her education. "I've always dreamed as WAC champs! ENJOY 17 GREAT HOME H TICKETS - NOW AVAILABLE AT A VERY SPECIAL PRICE ! FOUR GREAT PACKAG TO FIT ANY BUDGET! I m I DECEMBER SPECIAL ?1P UTAH STATE COUGAR (2 CUSSIC Nights) of playing in the Olympics. But I always thought it was an unrealistic dream. I mean. I was shocked I even got a college scholarship," she said. "So I feel like I just have to give it a shot. If I make it. IH probably try to get into San Diego State for graduate work, since that's where me team is. If not, 111 decide from there. Right now, my life kind of hinges on that try out." But before tryouts. symphonies and such, the two have one last thing to work on together getting into the Final Four, something that has barely eluded them" through XX "X T" J YV ) WAC PAC PLUS 2 TA t n)l Dl V U SIATE CAL -- BERKELEY BENCH SEATS their careers. It could happen. GAMES WITH SEASON FULL SEASON And certain- ly, it would be a fitting cap to four sterling years and a fitting finale for two of the best plavers to ever suit up for ABOVE CONCOURSE SEATS RENEWABLE BYU. NEXT YEAR School will pay dismissed coach -AP NAMPA, Idaho Northwest Nazarene College officials have been puttr.g together a financial package to compensate former assistant basketball coach Norm Parrish, fired last week because he was an active Mormon. 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