-- Penn State defeated Texas 3-2 (22-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-21, 15-13) for their fourth Division I volleyball championship. They also won the title in 1999, 2007 and 2008.
-- This is the third time in tournament history that a team has come from two sets down (and ninth time overall coming from behind) to win the title.
-- This is the ninth time in championship match history that the contest has gone to five sets.
-- This is the first time that Penn State and Texas have played each other in the NCAA Tournament.
-- Tonight’s national championship match featured eight AVCA All-Americans, including six First Team honorees.
-- Tonight’s championship match attendance is 12,087. That is the fifth-highest championship match attendance in tournament
history. The total attendance for the volleyball finals is 22,333.
-- A total of 112,151 people attended the tournament this year. 55,230 attended matches at first and second round sites, while 34,588 attended regional matches. The overall attendance is the second-highest total in tournament history.
-- This is the third time in tournament history that two teams have met in the championship match with one loss or fewer. The first was in 1998 when unbeaten squads Long Beach State and Penn State met in the final. The second was in 2003 when an undefeated USC met a once-beaten Florida.
-- This was the ninth time in tournament history that the top two overall seeded teams have met in the championship match. The top seed is now 8-1 in those nine contests.
-- This is the eighth time that an unbeaten team has reached the NCAA championship match. They have now gone 5-3.
-- All-Tournament Team members: Penn State’s Alisha Glass, Megan Hodge, Arielle Wilson; Texas’ Destinee Hooker (MVP), Ashley Engle, Julianne Faucette; Minnesota’s Hailey Cowles.
Penn State Notes
-- Penn State has now won 102 consecutive matches, an NCAA Division I record for any women’s sport. Penn State has not tasted defeat since losing 3-2 to Stanford on Sept. 15 of 2007. They won their last 26 matches in a row in 2007, all 38 matches in 2008 and all 38 matches in 2009.
-- Penn State became the first team in NCAA Division I volleyball history to win three consecutive national titles.
-- Penn State finished the season undefeated at 38-0 for the second consecutive year. They become just the fifth team in Division I history to win the national championship with an undefeated season and the first to do it twice. Long Beach State (36-0) in 1998, Nebraska (34-0) in 2000 and USC (35-0) in 2003 were the other three.
-- Penn State become the ninth team in 12 years to hold # 1 ranking in the AVCA poll heading into the tournament ended up winning the championship.
-- This is Penn State’s 66th NCAA Tournament win. That is fifth-best in Division I history.
-- With the victory, Penn State’s seniors graduated with an overall record of 142-5. That is a .966 winning percentage, best in NCAA Division I history for classes that have won national titles.
-- Penn State finished the decade with a record of 308-38 (.890). That is the fourth-highest winning percentage by a school in the 2000’s.
-- This is the fourth NCAA championship of Coach Russ Rose’s career, tying him for the most all-time among Division I coaches with John Dunning (Pacific/Stanford) and Don Shaw (Stanford).
-- Penn State is now 9-6 all-time against Texas, including a 1-0 mark in NCAA Tournament play.
-- Penn State is the 17th team in tournament history to enter the tournament undefeated.
-- This was just the second five-set match of the year for Penn State.
-- Senior outside hitter Megan Hodge, just the fifth player in Division I history to be named First Team All-American four years in a row, was named AVCA National Player of the Year. She is the second consecutive Nittany Lion to earn the award.
-- Hodge and senior setter Alisha Glass were both named to the All-Tournament Team for the third year in a row.
-- Hodge nailed 21 kills and had 13 digs for her 13th double-double on the season. She also added five blocks.
-- Glass contributed 53 and 12 digs for her 11th double-double.
-- Junior middle hitter Blair Brown had 13 kills and tied her career-high of 14 digs for her first double-double of the year.
-- Junior libero Alyssa D’Errico had a career and team season-high 22 digs.
-- Junior middle hitter Fatima Balza chipped in nine block assists, while freshman outside hitter Darcy Dorton and junior defensive specialist Cathy Quilico had 13 kills and 12 digs, respectively.
-- Penn State hit a season-low .234 for the match, but had a season-best 80 digs.
-- The Nittany Lions had 14.0 total team blocks, the seventh time this season that they have had 14.0 total team blocks or more for the year.
-- Arielle Wilson finished the season with a .540 hitting percentage national collegiate record for a season in the rally-scoring era. That mark surpasses the 30-point scoring format record (2001-07) of .529 set in 2005 by Kisha Lucette of Division II Paine College. It also bests the current 25-point scoring format record of .486 set last season by Penn State’s Christa Harmotto.
-- Penn State hit .381 for the season, the second-best Division I team hitting percentage mark in the rally scoring era. It only trails the mark of .390 set by last year’s Penn State squad.

-- This was the third time that Texas has appeared in the NCAA championship match. They were 1-1 in their previous two trips to the title match.
-- This was the third five-set match of the year for Texas. They went 1-1 in their previous two.
-- Senior outside hitter Destinee Hooker, named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team for the second consecutive year, led all players with 34 kills and 38.0 points. She also hit .316 for the contest and added 17 digs for her 10th double-double of the year.
-- Senior libero Heather Kisner led all players with 26 digs.
--- Senior setter Ashley Engle and sophomore setter Michelle Kocher also contributed double-doubles for the Longhorns. Engle dished out 36 assists and had 14 digs for her ninth double-double of the season. Kocher handed out 24 assists and dug 12 attacks for her first double-double of the campaign.
-- Sophomore middle blocker Rachael Adams had 11 kills and had six total blocks, while junior outside hitter Juliann Faucette
had 10 kills and had a career-high seven block assists and total blocks.
-- Texas had a season-best 71 kills and tied their season-high with 81 digs. They also had 12.0 total team blocks, the 10th time this season that they have had at least that many in a contest.
-- Hooker ended her career as Texas’ career postseason leader in kills (295), attack attempts (638) and service aces (28). Her 122 postseason kills this year is also a school record, while her 11 postseason service aces tied a school mark.
-- Hooker led all players in this year’s tournament with 122 kills and 146.5 points. She also averaged a tournament- best 5.81 kills and 6.98 points per set.
-- Kisner finished her career as the Longhorns’ career postseason record holder for digs with 219. Her 92 digs during this year’s tournament was also a school record.
-- Adams also tied a school record with 22 block assists during the postseason this year.
-- Texas led all schools in the tournament this year with a .350 hitting percentage.