Southern Arkansas University Athletics

If you had to sum up a four-year stretch of Southern Arkansas Volleyball, from 2007 to 2010, in a single phrase, it would simply be: "Maggie's got the middle." A native of Waxahachie, Texas, Maggie Ross Glover arrived at Southern Arkansas in 2006 and after four seasons, the Texan cemented herself as one of the top performers in program history and remains the gold standard in the program's Rally Scoring Era.
 
One of three players to start all 30 matches in her redshirt freshman season of 2007, Glover produced 207 kills at 1.95 per set with an attack percentage of .219. She led the team in block solos (35), block assists (76), total blocks (111) and recorded a single-season program record in blocks per set (1.05) which remains the standard today.
 
If opponents weren't aware of Glover's impact in the middle after the '07 season, they were certainly put on notice over the next two seasons. Glover earned consecutive All-Gulf South Conference second team honors behind a combined 530 kills, 194 digs, 157 total blocks (83 solo) and 53 service aces over the 2008 and 2009 seasons. She averaged 2.4 kills per set and 0.71 blocks per set over those two years.
 
In her final season, Glover's performance spurred a 19-game improvement in the win column as SAU reached the 20-win mark for the first time in seven seasons. In one of the most impressive single season efforts in program history, Glover played and started all 32 matches recording 299 kills at 2.65 per set behind a single-season program record .440 attack percentage; currently the third-highest attack clip in Gulf South Conference volleyball history. She led the team with 96 total blocks, which included a program record 44 block solos, at 0.85 per set. Within her senior season is a September 18 performance against Philander Smith in which Glover broke the single match attack percentage record with an .875 (14-0-16).
 
She became the first player in the program's Rally Scoring Era to reach 1,000 career kills and 300 total blocks and remains one of just two Muleriders to notch those career totals. Glover was named a 2010 Daktronics All-South Region Second Team performer which followed an All-GSC First Team accolade; the first NCAA all-region selection and the first three-time all-conference honoree in program history.
 
Glover holds the career record in block solos (162), total blocks (364) and attack percentage (.295), while ranking in the top three in career kills (1,037 – 2^nd), blocks per set (0.83 – 2^nd), points (1,385.0 – 2^nd), sets played (441 – 3^rd) and matches played (125 – 3^rd).
 
A two-time GSC All-Academic Team honoree, an ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VI Second Team selection and 2010 GSC "Top-Ten" Award recipient as a senior, Glover was awarded the 2011 Gulf South Conference Commissioner's Trophy. The award is the league's highest individual honor presented "annually to the student-athlete who best combines outstanding performance on the field or court and high academic achievement in the classroom with significant community service and extracurricular activities."