Side Out with Karyl Bacon

2007 (Fr.): Diminutive outside hitter got collegiate career off to a flying start at the season-opening Liberty Invitational presented by Pepsi (8/24-25) … named to the event’s all-tournament team and tabbed the season’s first Big South Freshman of the Week … recorded double-doubles in all three matches that weekend, pacing all players in both kills (45) and digs (66), while tying for a tournament high with six aces … recorded a career-high 18 kills and 27 digs in victory over Duquesne (8/25) … notched a career-best 29 digs and 17 kills later that same evening, versus Evansville … posted five double-doubles in her first six collegiate matches … ranked eighth in the Big South and second among conference freshmen with 435 digs, the fifth-highest total by a Lady Flame since rally scoring was instituted … helped Lady Flames snap Winthrop’s 63-match Big South winning streak (10/27) with a double-double, hitting .423 with 12 kills and 16 digs … paced all players with 19 digs in Liberty’s 3-1 setback at the hands of No. 10 California (11/30) in the first round of the NCAA Division I Tournament … included on the Big South Presidential Honor Roll.

Prep: An All-Southwestern League first-team performer as a junior and senior at Temecula Valley High School and a second-team pick as a sophomore … All-Valley honoree in 2005 and 2006 … made the Nighthawk Classic All-Tournament team in 2006 … earned all-tournament distinction at the 2004 Washington Classic Tournament … during the summer of 2004, she helped the Vintage 16-1 club team finish second out of 241 squads at the Volleyball Festival in Reno, Nev. … won Junior Honor Aisle recognition in 2006 … named Temecula Valley Student of the Month in February 2006.

Personal: Daughter of Clyde and Jill Bacon … kinesiology major … birthday is on Sept. 4.