Southern Arkansas University Athletics

Although a relatively young volleyball program by NAIA standards, SAU Hall of Fame head coach Ginger Hurst's Riderettes of the late 1980s dominated and for two seasons in the latter part of the decade much of that production can be credited to Beaumont, Texas, native Jackie LeDay.
 
A two-time All-Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference selection as well as a two-time NAIA All-District 17 performer with unanimous selection in 1988, LeDay remains the only Southern Arkansas Volleyball player to have earned a regional Player of the Year honor as she was named the NAIA's 1988 District 17 Player of the Year.
 
LeDay, a winner of multiple AIC Volleyball Player of the Week honors in her two seasons as a Riderette, put together an impressive showing in her player of the week performances during the 1987 season as she averaged a triple double of 44 digs, 18 blocks and 12 assists each week in addition to posting a 27% attack efficiency and a 96% serve efficiency.
 
In just two seasons, the '87 and '88 campaigns, LeDay helped SAU post a 50-18 (.735) overall record with a 20-4 mark in AIC play. That success was capped in LeDay's final season at Southern Arkansas as she helped lead the Riderettes to the '88 AIC Title; the program's first as an NAIA member.
 
That two-season stretch remains the fourth-best such winning percentage of any two consecutive seasons in program history. It also marked the first back-to-back campaigns with 20 or more wins in program history which included a then-program record 27 victories in LeDay's junior season of 1987. Since then, the 27 victories have been matched or bettered by only three Mulerider Volleyball teams.