#11 - Amanda Wiggins
Position: OH
Year: Senior
Hometown: Monument, Colo.
High School: Lewis-Palmer H.S.
Height: 6-0


2005 D-I All-Independent First-Team 2005: First-Team Division I All-Independent selection ... led the team in kills (3.61/game), was second in digs (3.59/game) and aces (35) and ranked fifth in blocks (0.68/game) ... one of only two D-I Independent players to rank in the top-10 of independents in both kills and digs ... named to the All-Tournament team at the LIU Classic after averaging 3.73 kills and 3.13 digs/game as the Bears were 3-1 and finished as runners-up at the tournament ... had 18 double-doubles during the season, which led the Northern Colorado team ... had 20 or more kills three times during the season, including a season-high 22 in victory at North Dakota State (Oct. 8); also added 14 digs and three blocks in that match ... had 20 kills, 22 digs and five blocks in a 3-2 win over Wyoming (Sept. 3) and 20 kills and 16 digs at Denver (Nov. 25) ... had a season-high 29 digs to go along with 13 kills in a 3-2 loss at Utah Valley State (Oct. 21) ... had 25 digs and 15 kills against Virginia Tech (Sept. 17) ... had 22 digs and 13 kills at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Oct. 28) ... hit .750 (16-1-20) with 16 kills, nine digs and a season-high six blocks in a 3-0 victory over North Dakota State (Nov. 5) on Senior Day ... had 16 kills and 19 digs in loss to IPFW (Nov. 11) at the D-I Independent Championships ... had a season-high four aces to go along with 18 kills, 10 digs and six blocks in 3-2 win at South Dakota State (Oct. 7) ... named to 2005-06 Northern Colorado All-Bear Team. 2004: Played in 97 of 131 total team games during the season ... had four kills and six digs in the season opener at New Mexico (Sept. 3) before injuring an abdominal muscle, which caused her to miss the next six matches ... returned to the court on Sept. 14 at Air Force, registering seven kills (including four in game two) to go along with six digs and two blocks as the Bears swept the Falcons in the first meeting between the teams in 10 years ... had a season-high 11 digs to go along with five kills, three ace and a block in the Bears 3-1 victory over Robert Morris (Sept. 25) in the championship match of the Best Western Regency Northern Colorado Classic ... had a season-high 11 kills and hit .429 (11-2-21) with seven digs in a 3-1 victory at Weber State (Oct. 26) ... had 10 digs and a pair of blocks to go with her nine kills in a five-set victory at Utah Valley State (Oct. 27) ... had three aces in a match three different times during the season.

2003: Played in 112 of 114 games during sophomore campaign ... second-team CoSIDA Academic All-District VII selection ... finished second on the team in kills (3.73/game) ... had a career-high 23 kills in 3-1 victory over nationally ranked North Dakota State (Sept. 3) ... had a career-best 19 digs against Hawaii-Hilo (Aug. 30) and a career-high eight total blocks in win over Edinboro (Oct. 17) ... hit double figures in kills in 26 of UNC's 34 matches including 18 of last 19 to finish season ... 19 double-doubles was second most on the Bears' team ... had 35 service aces on the year, third most on the team, including five in 3-0 sweep of Westminster College (Oct. 2) ... best all-around match of season was against Edinboro, in which she recorded 18 kills, 14 digs and eight blocks.


2002: Played in 66 of 121 games during freshman season ... recorded 73 kills (1.11/game) which ranked sixth on the team ... added 38 assists (0.58), 35 digs (0.53) and 24 blocks (0.36) ... had a season-high nine kills while hitting .471 (9-1-17) against Southwest State (Sept. 15) ... had six kills, three block assists and hit .545 (6-0-11) versus St. Cloud State (Sept. 20) ... had five kills and five digs against nationally ranked Minnesota-Duluth (Sept. 14).

Prep: Selected as the 4A Most Valuable Player at the 2001 State Volleyball Tournament by the Denver Post ... member of the All-State tournament team and earned all-conference honors her senior year and second team all-conference her junior year ... named honorable mention all-state (Class 4A) by the Rocky Mountain News ... graduated with a 3.96 gpa ... high school volleyball coach was Don Lash.

Personal: Born Aug. 29, 1984, in Colorado Springs ... daughter of Greg and Sally Wiggins ... majoring in business finance ... UNC Scholar Athlete ... sister Angela will be a sophomore with the Tulane Green Wave volleyball team in 2005.

Career Highs

Kills:    23 vs. North Dakota State (Sept. 3, 2003)
Attacks:  67 vs. Wyoming (Sept. 3, 2005)
Assists:  5 vs. Minnesota-Duluth (Sept. 7, 2002)
Aces:     5 vs. Westminster College (Oct. 2, 2003)
Digs:     29 vs. Utah Valley State (Oct. 21, 2005)
Blocks:   8 vs. Edinboro (Oct. 17, 2003)
Hit. %:   .611 (11-0-18) vs. North Carolina Central (Sept. 13, 2003)

Wiggins's Career Statistics


Season                GP-MP      K    K/G     E    TA    Pct     A   A/G    SA  SA/G    SE
2002................  66-23     73   1.11    37   205   .176    38  0.58     0  0.00     2
2003................ 112-34    418   3.73   156  1171   .224    22  0.20    35  0.31    35
2004................  97-27     66   0.68    33   213   .155     6  0.06    19  0.20    24
2005................ 109-30    394   3.61   172  1253   .177    27  0.25    35  0.32    40
TOTAL............... 384-114   951   2.48   398  2842   .195    93  0.24    89  0.23   101


Season                 DIG   D/G    RE    BS    BA    TB   B/G    BE   BHE  Points Pts/G
2002................    35  0.53     1     0    24    24  0.36     0     2    85.0  1.29
2003................   362  3.23    40     8    50    58  0.52     3     3   486.0  4.34
2004................   112  1.15    12     1    14    15  0.15     2     0    93.0  0.96
2005................   391  3.59    38    11    63    74  0.68     4     5   471.5  4.32
TOTAL...............   900  2.34    91    20   151   171  0.45     9    10  1135.5  2.96
Wiggins' Match-by-Match Statistics
  • 2002
  • 2003
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