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Bears Receive Post Season Honors

Post season honors have started to come in for the Region XIb Champion DMACC Volleyball team. Sophomore Kayla Knobbe and freshmen Shelby DeNeice and Katie Heuer represent DMACC on the All-Region First Team while sophomore Rachel Wenzel was named to the second team. Both Knobbe and DeNeice were named to the Iowa Community College Conference (ICCAC) All-Conference First Team also, while Heuer and Wenzel were on the Second Team.

Knobbe leads the Bears in assists with 1,536 as that shatters the school single season record in assists as the old record was 1,090. She also has 302 digs, 98 blocks, 56 kills, and 39 ace searves on the season.

DeNeice leads DMACC in kills with 520 and second on the team in digs with 511. She has a kill efficiency of .304 and has recorded 40 ace serves.
Heuer has recorded 408 kills, 417 digs, and 36 service aces.

Also representing the DMACC Bears on the All-Region Honorable Mention team were Courtney Casper, Kaitlyn DeVries, Kayla Black, and Monica Driscoll. Being named All-Conference was DeVries.

DMACC will enter the Division II National Tournament on Thursday, November 15 as they receive the number ten seed and will play Iowa’s North Region Champion Iowa Lakes at 1:00 p.m. Iowa time. They take a 45-8 record and #13 national ranking into the National Championships.


Region XI b All-Region Teams:

First Team All-Region:
Shelby DeNeice - DMACC
Anna Waymaster – Southwestern
Kayla Knobbe – DMACC
Ashtyn Neill – Southwestern
Katie Heuer – DMACC
Kirstin Smith – Kirkwood

Second Team All-Region:
Rachel Wenzel – DMACC
Hanna Bruns – Kirkwood
Stephanie Bower – Southwestern
Heather Heuvelmann – Southeastern
Tessa Prochaska – Southeastern     
Tomomi Sakurai – Kirkwood

Honorable Mention All-Region:
Courtney Casper – DMACC
Kaitlyn DeVries – DMACC
Kayla Black – DMACC
Heather Hoge – Clinont
Tiffany Anderson – Kirkwood
Meredith Pegram – Southwestern
Courtney King – Southwestern
Monica Driscoll - DMACC
Katie Hollingsworth – Southeastern
Jenna Grimm – Southeastern


ICCAC All-Conference Teams:

First Team All-Conference
Arah Klinschmidt – Iowa Lakes
Liz Miller – Iowa Lakes
Aury Camareno – Iowa Lakes
Morgan Brown – Iowa Central
Jessica Lopez – Marshalltown
Kayla Knobbe – DMACC
Shelby DeNeice – DMACC
Anny Waymaster – Southwestern

Second Team All-Conference:
Jenna Tammel – Iowa Lakes
Hailey Beneke – Iowa Central
Sarah Geist – Marshalltown
Rachel Wenzel – DMACC
Katie Heuer – DMACC
Kirstin Smith – Kirkwood
Ashtyn Neill – Southwestern
Tessa Prochaska – Southeastern

Honarable Mention All-Conference:
Sarah Heineman – NIACC
Katelyn Early – Ellsworth
Kaitlyn DeVries – DMACC

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