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For Immediate Release						Written: Dec. 5, 1996



	SPRINGFIELD, Ohio---Wittenberg University outside hitter Dawn Reinhardt 
has been named to the All-America volleyball team for NCAA Division III 
as selected by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
	Reinhardt, a junior from Canal Fulton, Ohio (Northwest High School), was 
selected to the Division III second team. She finished the regular season 
franked fourth in Division III in kills per game with 5.03.
	Itıs the second straight year that a Wittenberg player earned 
All-America laurels in volleyball, following Kim Woodring who was first 
team in 1995. 
	Reinhardt and Woodring were joined by junior setter Beth Nowicki on the  
All-North Coast Athletic Conference first team and the All-Great Lakes 
Region first team.
	Wittenberg was 32-11 in 1996 and won its first-ever NCAA Division III 
tournament match and the Tigers will welcome back three All-America 
players in 1997.
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