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USI Volleyball Opens 2021 Season Friday In Florida
University of Southern Indiana Volleyball opens its 2021 season Friday at 11:30 a.m. when it takes on No. 23 Wheeling Jesuit University at the University of West Florida Springhill Suites Invitational in Pensacola, Florida. USI also plays West Florida Friday at 7 p.m. to finish its opening day of competition.
The Screaming Eagles finish their weekend slate Saturday with matches against Palm Beach Atlantic University (11 a.m.) and Spring Hill College (3 p.m.).
This weekend’s matches mark the first regular-season non-conference contests for the Eagles since the 2019 season.
Live stats and video will be available on GoUSIEagles.com, while ticket information for this weekend’s match can be found on the tournament web page.
2021 USI Volleyball Notes
• Eagles coming off exhibition win. USI Volleyball is coming off a five-set exhibition win over Division I University of Evansville on August 24. The Eagles rallied from a 10-2 fifth-set deficit to salvage the win after seeing a two-set lead slip away.
• Welcome back. The Eagles welcomed fans into Screaming Eagles Arena for the first time since the 2019-20 basketball season when they hosted UE last week. The two teams played in front of an estimated crowd of more than 700 fans for their exhibition tilt.
• USI picked to finish 2nd in GLVC East Division. The Eagles were picked to finish second in the GLVC East Division. USI received 14 points and two first-place votes and trailed Lewis, which had 15 points and three first-place votes.
• Eagles receiving votes outside AVCA Top 25. USI tallied 145 votes outside the AVCA Top 25 Preseason Coaches’ Poll. The Eagles finished the 2020-21 season ranked No. 15 and were ranked as high as No. 12 during the regular-season after earning their first-ever national ranking earlier in the year.
• Looking for repeat. The Eagles capped a historic 2020-21 campaign with their first GLVC Tournament title since 2004 and third in program history. USI ended the regular-season with a five-set, come-from-behind road win over then No. 1 previously unbeaten Lewis before winning three matches in the GLVC Tournament, including a semi-final sweep of nationally-ranked Missouri-St. Louis.
• Raff completes circle. Head Coach Randi Raff came full circle when USI won the GLVC Tournament last spring. She was a senior on USI’s 2004 GLVC Tournament championship team and returned to lead USI in 2019.
• Big return. USI brings back nine players, including all its starters, off a team that finished the 2020-21 season 17-4 overall and ranked No. 15 in the final AVCA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll. That list includes senior setter Casey Cepicky (St. Louis, Missouri) and senior libero Callie Gubera (Thorntown, Indiana), both of whom are returning for their fifth year of eligibility due to NCAA COVID-19 rules. Middle blocker Sidney Hegg (Menasha, Wisconsin) rounds out this year’s senior class.
• USI brings back four All-GLVC honorees. Included in that list of returning players is four All-GLVC honorees. Sophomore outside hitter Leah Anderson (Bloomington, Illinois) earned first-team honors last spring, while Cepicky, junior middle hitter Taylor Litteken (Foristell, Missouri) and sophomore right side hitter Katherine Koch (Belleville, Illinois) were all named to the second team.
• Anderson, Gubera were recognized nationally. Anderson and Gubera were both named AVCA Division II Player of the Week last spring. It marked the third and fourth times in program history that USI has had a volleyball player recognized with the AVCA’s National Player of the Week award and the first time USI has had two players in the award in the same season.
• Cepicky climbing the record books. Cepicky enters her final year at USI ranked No. 4 all-time with 2,974 career assists after finishing 2020-21 with 9.36 assists and 2.86 digs per set. She also is just 95 digs away from becoming the 12th player in program history to eclipse the 1,000-dig plateau and is 95 digs and 26 assists away from becoming the first player in program history with 3,000 assists and 1,000 digs.
• Roster maintenance. While Cepicky and Gubera are coming back for their fifth years in a USI uniform, all of USI’s players from its 2020-21 roster maintained their same eligibility as last season on this year’s roster with the exception of Hegg. The Eagles welcomed five new players to their roster this year, including freshman transfer Lauren O’Neill (Covington, Indiana) and true freshmen Paris Downing (Avon, Indiana), Anna Ballengee(Montgomery, Indiana), Evie Duncan (Evansville, Indiana) and Carly Sobieralski (Indianapolis, Indiana). Freshmen outside hitters Abby Weber(Fishers, Indiana), Abby Bednar (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) and Taya Dazey (Fort Wayne, Indiana) all contributed to the Eagles in 2020-21.
Jordan Seneca Named Assistant Softball Coach For UE
Seneca worked with the program as a graduate assistant last season
 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – After spending the 2021 season as a Graduate Assistant for the University of Evansville softball team, Jordan Seneca has been elevated to Assistant Coach for the Purple Aces.
“I could not be happier for our team to be able to promote Jordan on our coaching staff! Last year as the season progressed you could really start to see her impact on the team,†UE head softball coach Mat Mundell said. “She continued to impress throughout the summer on the recruiting trail.â€
“Jordan’s main focus will be working with our offense as our hitting coach,†Mundell continued. “As a player she got to play and utilize the same style and philosophies we have.
Jordan brings such a passion for teaching and developing hitters.â€
In her first season with the program, Seneca made an immediate impact. Her work helped Eryn Gould set the all-time program mark by finishing the year with a .418 batting average. She also broke the Evansville mark for career walks in the final game of the season. Seneca also worked with Marah Wood, who was a 3-time Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week and became just the seventh player in program history to record 10+ home runs in a season.
“I am so thankful for this opportunity to continue coaching beside Coach Mundell,†Seneca exclaimed. “I am also very excited to see what will come out of this group of student-athletes this season.â€
Seneca joined the Aces staff in 2020 following two seasons as an assistant coach at LaSalle. A four-year letter winner at Saint Francis, Seneca helped the Red Flash win back-to-back NEC Championships in 2017 and 2018. During that span, the team was a perfect 38-0 in conference play.
Over the course of her career, the former shortstop accumulated 48 home runs, which sits as the SFU and NEC record. Seneca also holds school records in runs (181), walks (154) and steals (56), while finishing second for RBIs (156).
No stranger to accolades, Seneca was a two-time NFCA All-Region Third Team selection, while also accumulating three All-NEC Team selections throughout her career. She completed her bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology, with a concentration in fitness professionals and will be completing her master’s degree in leadership this December from UE.
USI Tabs Dave Turpin To Lead Men’s Golf Program
University of Southern Indiana Athletics announced that it has picked Evansville native Dave Turpin to lead its men’s golf program.
“We are excited to have Dave lead our men’s golf program,” USI Director of Athletics Jon Mark Hall said. “He is very well connected in the Southern Indiana golf community and, most importantly, is committed to the individual and collective growth of the young men in our program.”
Turpin comes to USI with a more than 20 years of amateur golf experience, including five Major Champion wins on the National Amateur Golf Tour (Championship Flight) and an 11th-place national finish in 2019.
A competitor in the Evansville City Golf Tournament for more than 20 years, Turpin was the 2021 Evansville Senior City Champion as well as the 2015 Evansville Country Club Champion.
In addition to his amateur golf resume, Turpin has spent more than 20 years as a basketball coach at Mater Dei and as a baseball umpire at the high school, JUCO and NCAA levels.
Turpin, who resides in Evansville with his wife LaDonna, earned a bachelor’s degree from USI in business administration as well as a master’s degree in engineering management. He is a semi-retired sales consultant and has two kids, Alex Turpin and Austin Campbell.
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Indiana State Police Accepting Applications for Radio Dispatcher Fort Wayne Regional Dispatch Center
The Indiana State Police is accepting applications for a Regional Dispatcher position at the Fort Wayne Post’s Regional Dispatch Center (RDC) that operates out of that facility located at 5811 Ellison Rd. This RDC covers the eleven counties that comprise the Fort Wayne Post (Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Jay, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wells, and Whitley), as well as the seven counties that comprise the Peru Post (Cass, Fulton, Grant, Howard, Miami, Tipton, and Wabash).
Primary responsibilities of a dispatcher are to receive, record, and accurately dispatch information to police personnel, other law enforcement agencies and other support services through the use of a Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) System, Records Management System (RMS), Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL), Geographic Information System (GIS) and other Regional Dispatch Center resources.
A high school diploma or GED equivalent is required as well as the ability to be seated in a confined area for extended periods of time. Two years of public safety communications experience preferred.
Pay starts at $38,532 per year. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, retirement plans and accrued time off.
The deadline for applications is Friday September 10, 2021.
For more information on this position and to apply online, go to https://www.in.gov/isp/3627.htm (Indiana State Police-Career Opportunities-Civilian Opportunities). Questions should be directed to Brandon P. Lowe, Personnel Officer for the Indiana State Police Human Resources Division at blowe@isp.in.gov or (317) 232-8238.