Fairleigh
Dickinson’s Stacey Recanati One Win From All-Time Record
Knights look to extend four-match win streak
TEANECK,
N.J. – Fairleigh Dickinson University women’s volleyball
head coach Stacey Recanati
(Hackensack, NJ) stands to become the program’s all-time wins
leader, heading into Saturday’s contest with 125 career victories.
The Knights (6-5), who also look to continue their four-match
win streak, will face the Wagner Seahawks (1-13) at 1:00pm for both
teams 2001 Northeast Conference opener.
The
Knights last posted a four-game win streak in the 1998 season and
the only five-game win streak under Recanati’s reign was at
the end of 1994 where the Knights lost in the semi-finals of the NEC
Tournament to end the streak. Fairleigh Dickinson’s longest win streak of 13 occurred in
1989, Recanati’s senior playing season.
With
the longest tenure of any volleyball coach in the Northeast
Conference, Recanati is in her 11th season on the
sidelines with the Knights and spent four years on the court as a
setter. For more than a decade, Recanati has been an integral
part of the volleyball program, first as an outstanding player and
then as successful coach. During
her tenure the Knights have become a contender in the NEC, finishing
in the top of the conference each year, including two runner-up
finishes in the last five seasons.
Her players have been named NEC Rookie of the Year four times
and have earned nine First Team NEC accolades.
With Recanati’s involvement, the Knights have advanced to
the NEC Tournament in all 12 years (1987-89, 1992-2000) compiling a
28-16 record.
For
her accomplishments as a student-athlete at Fairleigh Dickinson, Recanati
was a member of the second induction class into the Division I
Athletics Hall of Fame. Recanati
had a stellar collegiate career, being named All-NEC three times.
She guided the Knights to a 122-54 record, three NEC titles
and a bid to the Women’s Volleyball Invitational Tournament in
1989. Recanati
was named NEC Most Valuable Player twice during her playing days –
in 1987 and 1989.
As
a player at Hackensack High School she was named to the Bergen
Record’s All-Decade volleyball team for the 1980s.
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