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2022 Volleyball Roster

Adam Koszo
Ben Amato
Linwood Ferguson
KJ Jugar (Liberty)

7 Dana Axner

  • Position Libero
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Fifth Year
  • Hometown Dublin, Ohio

Biography

As A Senior (2021) | Match-By-Match Stats (PDF)
Earned ASUN All-Tournament Team honors and named All-ASUN First Team last season as a defensive specialist/libero for the reigning ASUN champs … Earned ASUN All-Academic Team honors … Named ASUN Fall Winner for Life … Has earned six ASUN ASUN Defensive Player of the Week honors for her career, one last campaign ... Led FGCU in total digs with 490, 230 in league play … Her 490 digs ranked third in the ASUN helping FGCU boast one of the lowest opponent hitting percentages in the nation, No. 5 at .138 … Recorded double-digit digs in 27 matches…  Held a 4.18 digs per set mark, which ranked No. 71 in the nation and second in the ASUN … Season high of 24 digs in a 3-2 win at North Florida … Posted 17 digs is a 3-2 NCAA First Round win over Texas Tech … The win marked the 27th victory of the season which tied the program record previously set in 2016, 2018 and 2019 seasons … It also marked the second NCAA First Round win for the Eagles following its 3-2 win over No. 13 UCF in Orlando during the 2018 season  … Competed in all 33 matches last season and tied for 1st on the squad in total sets played (108) … Recorded 19 aces and 103 assists … Tallied 20 points.
 
As A Junior (2020) | Match-By-Match Stats (PDF)
Second Team All-ASUN ... ASUN All-Academic Team ... CoSIDA Third Team All-American ... CoSIDA First Team Academic All-District ... Totaled 270 digs, or 4.58 per set, along with 56 assists and 15 aces ... Finished second in the ASUN and 111th nationally in total digs ... Ranked third in the ASUN and 89th nationally in digs per set ... Produced 10+ digs in all but two matches, including eight with 15-plus in conference play alone ... Recorded 21 digs in the ASUN championship match while registering six matches with five-plus assists ... 15 aces was 10th-best in the conference ... Finished among top 15 in the ASUN in assists and assists per set (0.95) ... Season-best 24 digs vs South Florida (1/29) ... Notched season-best six assists three times.
 
As A Sophomore (2019) | Match-By-Match Stats (PDF)
AVCA First Team All-Southeast Region ... VolleyballMag.com Honorable Mention All-American ... ASUN Defensive Player of the Year ... First Team All-ASUN ... ASUN All-Tournament Team ... ASUN Defensive Player of the Week (9/3, 9/23, 9/30, 11/4) ... Homewood Suites Fort Myers Classic MVP ... Bluegrass Battle All-Tournament Team ... Sunshine State Classic All-Tournament Team ... ASUN Preseason Defensive Player of the Year ... ASUN Preseason All-Conference ... August FGCU Scholar-Athlete of the Month ... Became first player in ASUN history to win back-to-back ASUN Defensive Player of the Year awards to open a career … Totaled 574 digs, a career-best 5.47 digs per set, 203 assists and 26 aces … Double-digit digs in all but two matches … 10 matches with 20+ digs, including seven in ASUN play and six in her final seven matches of the year … Concluded season with back-to-back 30-plus dig efforts in the ASUN tournament … 21 consecutive double-digit dig performances (9/13 - 11/10) ... Became youngest in program history to reach 1,000 career digs vs Bethune-Cookman (10/22) … Her 574 digs ranked second in the ASUN and 32nd nationally … Her 5.47 digs per set led the ASUN, ranked ninth in the nation and was the ninth best output in ASUN history … Produced three of the program’s top 10 all-time three-set dig totals vs ASUN opponents - 24 vs Liberty (9/24), 23 vs Stetson (11/1) and 22 vs North Florida (11/3) … Led the conference with 5.54 digs per set in ASUN play alone … Ranked 16th in ASUN in aces.

As A Freshman (2018) | Match-By-Match Stats (PDF)
VolleyballMag.com Second Team Freshman All-American ... ASUN Defensive Player of the Year ... ASUN Freshman of the Year ... ASUN All-Freshmen Team ... ASUN All-Tournament team ... First Team All-ASUN ... All-Lobo Classic team ... All-Homewood Suites Fort Myers/FGCU Classic team ... ASUN Freshman of the Week (8/27, 9/4, 10/8, 10/15, 11/5, 11/12) ... ASUN Defensive Player of the Week (9/10) ... Became first player in the history of the ASUN to be named the conference’s top freshman and defensive player of the year in the same season … One of just two liberos nationally (Brooke Nuneviller, Oregon) to be named to VolleyballMag.com's Freshman All-American team, landing a spot on the second team … Won a conference record six ASUN freshman of the week selections … Totaled FGCU single-season records for total digs (624) and digs per set (5.20) … Double-digit digs in all but three matches, including the final 22 of the season … Season-high 39 digs against West Virginia (9/8), which was the most in any Division I era match in program history … 20 or more digs 11 times over the final 19 matches … 27 digs in the ASUN championship match vs Kennesaw State … Produced first career double-double with 29 digs and 11 assists in an NCAA Tournament win over UCF (11/29) … 298 digs and 5.42 digs per set in ASUN play alone are both the best in program history.

High School
2018 graduate of Dublin Coffman High School in Dublin, Ohio, where the four-year letter winner was elected team captain her junior and senior seasons under the tutelage of Mary Anne Souder … First Team Ohio Capital Conference, First Team All-District and All-State player who led her team to three Division I state final four appearances … First Team All-Ohio and had 41 digs in the state semifinal as a senior … Landed on AVCA Under Armour All-American Watch List ... Led Elite Volleyball Training Center club team to the AAU Premier National Championship, where she was named to the all-tournament team under the tutelage of Randy Cline … Broke school record for most digs in a season … Honor roll student throughout high school … Member of the National Honor Society … Achieved a 4.2 GPA … Represented all female athletes at Dublin Coffman on the Principal’s Advisory Council.

Personal
Born Feb. 1, 2000 … Daughter of David and Christine Axner … Has five siblings - Brett, Kelli, Stacy, Rylee and Lindsey ... Secondary mathematics education major ... Student representative on the Eagles Council ... Really close with her sisters and they even have a made-up language that they sometimes use together … Aspires to be a math teacher at the middle or high school level and possibly become a coach.
 
Last updated: 8/5/22

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Historical Player Information

  • 7

    2018Freshman

    Defensive Specialist/Libero
    5'8"
    7
  • 7

    2019Sophomore

    Libero
    5'8"
    7
  • 7

    2020Junior

    Libero
    5'8"
    7
  • 7

    2021Senior

    Libero
    5'8"
    7
  • 7

    2022Fifth Year

    Libero
    5'8"
    7