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Pack Volleyball Alum Maggie Speaks Competing at World University Games
8/21/2017 4:05:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
Former Wolfpack volleyball standout competing for Team USA at WUG
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Former NC State volleyball standout Maggie Speaks is competing in the 2017 World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan, this week as a member of Team USA.
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The World University Games – officially referred to as the Summer Universiade – are an international multi-sport event organized for university athletes by the International University and Sports Federation (FISU). The summer World University Games are contested every two years. Outside of the Olympic Games, the WUG represent the largest multi-sport event in the world, with the first event held in 1923.
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Speaks is one of two setters on the squad along with Valerie Jeffery, a former player at Youngstown State University.
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Team USA opened play in the event with a 3-0 loss against Japan on Monday and will return to the court Tuesday for a meeting with Latvia prior to Wednesday's battle with Thailand. Both matches are slated for 3 p.m. in Taiwan, which is a 3 a.m. Eastern Time first serve.
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For more information on the matches or to follow along, click here.
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The Camden, S.C., native is one of four former players from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) on the team along with Duke's Jordan Tucker, Florida State's Katie Horton and Georgia Tech's Teegan Van Gunst.
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Speaks turned in a stellar career at NC State, highlighted by earning American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Region Honorable Mention and Second Team All-ACC honors as a senior.
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She dished out the third-most assists in the conference with 1,148, the second-highest total by an individual in NC State's rally-scoring era. That mark helped Speaks finish her Wolfpack career with 3,240 assists, the second most in the rally-scoring era and fifth most in NCSU history.
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As a senior in 2016, Speaks ranked among the top 50 in the NCAA with 10.63 assists per set and orchestrated an NC State offense that finished the season with the second-best attacking percentage in the program's rally-scoring era at .226. She set the Wolfpack rally-scoring era record with 64 assists in NC State's five-set win against SMU.
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 Earlier this summer, Speaks signed a contract to play professional volleyball in Greece with the Makedones Axiou Club.
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The World University Games – officially referred to as the Summer Universiade – are an international multi-sport event organized for university athletes by the International University and Sports Federation (FISU). The summer World University Games are contested every two years. Outside of the Olympic Games, the WUG represent the largest multi-sport event in the world, with the first event held in 1923.
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Speaks is one of two setters on the squad along with Valerie Jeffery, a former player at Youngstown State University.
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Team USA opened play in the event with a 3-0 loss against Japan on Monday and will return to the court Tuesday for a meeting with Latvia prior to Wednesday's battle with Thailand. Both matches are slated for 3 p.m. in Taiwan, which is a 3 a.m. Eastern Time first serve.
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For more information on the matches or to follow along, click here.
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The Camden, S.C., native is one of four former players from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) on the team along with Duke's Jordan Tucker, Florida State's Katie Horton and Georgia Tech's Teegan Van Gunst.
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Speaks turned in a stellar career at NC State, highlighted by earning American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Region Honorable Mention and Second Team All-ACC honors as a senior.
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She dished out the third-most assists in the conference with 1,148, the second-highest total by an individual in NC State's rally-scoring era. That mark helped Speaks finish her Wolfpack career with 3,240 assists, the second most in the rally-scoring era and fifth most in NCSU history.
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As a senior in 2016, Speaks ranked among the top 50 in the NCAA with 10.63 assists per set and orchestrated an NC State offense that finished the season with the second-best attacking percentage in the program's rally-scoring era at .226. She set the Wolfpack rally-scoring era record with 64 assists in NC State's five-set win against SMU.
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 Earlier this summer, Speaks signed a contract to play professional volleyball in Greece with the Makedones Axiou Club.
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