Maya Schlindwein

Position:
OH
Class:
Senior
High School:
Colegio Cenecista Frederico Michaelsen
Hometown:
Nova Petropolis, Brazil

2009: Named to the All-Summit League Second Team...Named to the Summit League All-Tournament team...Named to the Summit League Fall All-Academic Team...Named to the Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence...Played and started in all 32 matches, playing in every set during the season...Finished second on the team with 320 kills and 983 attack attempts and finished fourth on the squad with 267 digs...Finished second in the Summit League in service aces and aces per set...Reached double figure kills in half of the team's matches during the season, and had seven or more 28 times...Knocked down a season-high 22 kills at Oakland on October 2, while picking up 17 against Centenary on October 23, and against Missouri State on October 25...Added nine double-digit dig matches during the year, including a career-high 20 in the Summit League Tournament Championship match on November 21 against North Dakota State...Had five double-doubles on the season: October 2 at Oakland (22 kills, 14 digs); October 16 at South Dakota State (15 kills, 11 digs); October 24 against Oral Roberts (11 kills, 12 digs); October 25 against Missouri State (17 kills, 18 digs); November 21 at North Dakota State (11 kills, 20 digs)...Led the team with 41 service aces, including at least one in 25 matches during the season...Had four service aces at home against Western Illinois on October 9...Added at least one block in 31 of 32 matches, with her season-high of five happening three times (September 5 vs. SIU Edwardsville; September 18 against North Dakota State; and October 24 against Oral Roberts).

2008: Named to the Summit League Academic All-League Team and to the Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence...Her 172 kills and 1.95 kill-per-set average each rank as the seventh highest single season sophomore total in school history, while her .183 attack percentage puts her eighth on the sophomore list...Totaled double figure kills in five matches during the season, including a season-high 15 against Valparaiso in the second game of the season...Had a remarkable 14-kill, 11-block double-double, her second career double-double...Her 11 blocks (one solo, 10 assisted) set a new career-best, and was the most by a sophomore in a five-set match in school history, and the third highest total in a five-set match, regardless of class...Added seven blocks in the season finale against Miami (Ohio), the fourth highest four-set match ever by a sophomore...Hit a season-best .458 percent (12 kills, 1 error, 24 attempts) in four sets against Oral Roberts in the Summit League Tournament, the third highest four-set single-match attack percentage for a sophomore, and the fifth best overall...Her .444 attack percentage against Valparaiso (15 kills, 3 errors, 27 attempts), is the seventh highest four-set total in school history.

2007: Was named to the Summit League All-Freshman Team, and to the Summit League All-Tournament Team...Had a stellar freshman season, finishing third on the team in kills (298), attempts (827), and fourth in blocks (55) and attack percentage (.207)...After struggling through the first 15 games of her freshman season, with an attack percentage of .097 and an average of 1.53 kills per set, she erupted over the final 17 matches of the year with 3.41 kills per set and a .251 attack percentage during those contests...Conversely, in the first 15 games, IPFW was 8-7 overall and 13-4 over the final 17 contests...Finished the season as one of the top freshmen in IPFW's Division I era, with the third most kills and attacks, the fourth most sets played, matches played, kills per set, solo blocks and assisted blocks; and the fifth most service aces and total blocks...She set the freshman single match record for kills and attack points with 28 kills and 31.0 points against South Dakota State in the championship game of the Summit League Tournament...She also had single-match freshman records for blocks in a five-set match (8.0 against Xavier on October 23) and a three-set match (6.0 against Centenary on November 2)...As good as she was over the second half of the season, over the final six games, she was even better, recording double figure kills in all six of those games, going over 21 three times...Her 22 kills against Western Illinois is the sixth highest five-set freshman total, while her 22 in the following contest, against IUPUI, was the third most put up by a freshman in a four-set match...Totaled 16 kills on October 20 against UMKC, the sixth highest three-set total put up by a freshman...Hit a remarkable .632 against Centenary on September 29, behind 12 kills, no errors and 19 attempts, the second highest three-set match total in school history...Served up a career-best three aces against Ball State on October 30, the eight most by a freshman in a three-set match...Also had three aces against South Dakota State in the Summit League Championship, the fifth most by a freshman in a five-set match...Served up two aces in five other games during the season...Had two block solos in a game three times during the season; October 23 against Xavier, November 2; with each tying for the third highest total by an IPFW freshman, the middle one coming in a three sets, while the outside pair coming in a five-set match...Had five solo blocks against Valparaiso in the season finale, the ninth highest four-set total in school history for a freshman...Added four blocks against UMKC on October 12 and against IUPUI on November 11, with each of those also ranking as the ninth highest freshman total.

High School: While at Colegio Cenecista Frederico Michaelsen, she earned MVP honors at the Caxias Tournament.

Personal: Is the daughter of Milton Schlindwein and Leoni Dalferth.