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Devanne Sours Season 2016-17

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Height6-2
ClassSr.
HometownTatum, N.M.
High SchoolTatum HS

NEW MEXICO

Senior Year | 2017: Posted a 20-7 record on the season with partner Lise Rugland … Played largely in the No. 2 position, with five matches at the No. 1 spot … Earned a three-set win over No. 11 Grand Canyon during the season’s opening weekend … Reeled off a five-match winning streak in March that featured two-set W’s over No. 13 Arizona, No. 17 Florida Atlantic and No. 12 Georgia State … Added a four-game winning streak in mid-April, taking down Lincoln Memorial, UT Martin and UAB twice … Finished the season with three straight wins, including a two-set victory over No. 20 California … Didn’t drop consecutive matches all season … Held her opponents to under 15 points in a set in 31 of the 61 sets she played all season … Finished with a career record of 39-27, winning the fifth-most matches in program history

Junior Year | 2016: Finished the season with a 15-10 record, playing 23 matches in the No. 2 position … Opened the season playing with Ashley Kelsey, going 1-4 (including one match in the No. 1 spot) over the first weekend of the year … One match after partnering with Lise Rugland, posted 13 wins in 14 matches, losing only in a injury forfeit to CSUN … During her run, lost just three sets in completed matches, and earned wins over Arizona State, Pacific, Sacramento State, Washington, TCU, San Jose State (twice) and Colorado Mesa (twice) … Seven of those wins came consecutively, the second-longest win streak in program history … Dropped four straight matches, but capped her season with a sweep of New Orleans 

Sophomore Year | 2015: Finished the inaugural season of New Mexico beach volleyball with a 4-10 record, primarily splitting time between the No. 2 and No. 3 pairs … Started with Ashley Kelsey, going 1-3, before partnering up with Chloe Crappell, with whom she went 3-7 … Won a point in the No. 2 slot vs. TCU on March 8 … After six matches in the threes spot, moved back up to the No. 2 position and claimed a point vs. Bakersfield … Swept her matches vs. Colorado State to close out the season, winning both in the two spot. 

HIGH SCHOOL

A 2013 graduate of Tatum High School…a six-year letterwinner in volleyball, basketball and track and field…helped the Coyotes, under the direction of Mike Majors, to five-straight District 8-1A volleyball titles and four-consecutive 1-A volleyball state championships…four-time 1A Volleyball Player of the Year…four-time All-State outside hitter…three-time All-State setter…named a MaxPreps 2012 Small Schools Volleyball All-American…played for New Mexico Juniors club team 2012-13…led Tatum’s basketball team to four-straight District 8-1A titles and back-to-back State 1A runner-up finishes while earning All-State honors in hoops as a sophomore, junior and senior…competed at the State track and field championships every year since she was an eighth grader, earning second place in the high jump in 2011 and finishing runner-up in the javelin throw in 2012 and 2013…won track and field titles in 2012 in the 800-meter relay and medley relay…member of National Honors Society…graduated in the top three in her class…participated in student council and was a student ambassador for People to People.

PERSONAL

Born in Lubbock, Texas on June 27 … Parents are Barry and Charity Lee and Drew and Jennifer Sours … has three siblings: Colter, Jaxan and Sayler … Enjoys riding four-wheelers, hanging out with friends and playing sports … Favorite athlete is Misty May Treanor … Favorite food is steak … Lists Fast Five as her favorite movie … Graduated with a degree in speech therapy in 2016 and is pursuing a second bachelors in psychology

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