 
#5 Kira Batura Sr. OH/L 5'10 Downers Grove, IL Downers Grove South HS (Sports Performance) Individual statistics |
| Volleyball 2007 •TEAM PAGE | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | TEAM STATS |
 2007: Named preseason All-CAA and was voted first team All-CAA at season’s end…second on team in total kills with 299 and second on team in kills per game with 2.90…second on team in digs with 438 and second in digs per game with 4.25…seventh in the CAA in digs per game…fourth on team in service aces with 29…had a season high 21 kills twice, against UT-Arlington Sept. 8 and George Mason Oct. 7…had double-digit kills 14 times and double-digit digs 23 times…had 14 double-doubles…hit .259 with 20 kills at William & Mary Oct. 26…hit .348 with 20 kills against Harvard Sept. 23…hit .333 with 12 kills against Brown Sept. 14…had a season high 30 digs at George State with 18 kills on Sept. 28.2006: With 1439 career digs, Batura is the all-time leader at Northeastern...With 21 digs against Delaware on Oct. 28, raised her career digs total to 1377, breaking the 15-year-old school record of 1365 set by Chris Frein-Hale in 1991...Has racked up 14 double-doubles in 2006...Recorded double-digit digs in all but three matches...Leads NU with 315 kills...Second on the team and sixth in the CAA with 450 digs (4.41/g)...Has twice posted 20-plus kills...Racked up 16 10-plus kill matches...Recorded streaks of six matches and four matches of consecutive double-doubles...Posted a career-high 26 kills in the win over UNC Wilmington on Nov. 12...Added 33 receptions to 16 digs and 17 kills in the playoff-clinching win over George Mason on Nov. 4...Posted 13 kills and 26 digs in the win at Towson on Oct. 27...Ended a streak of six straight matches with a double-double against VCU on Oct. 22 when she came up only one kills short...Tallied 10 kills and 15 digs in a sweep of William & Mary on Oct. 20...Sent down 11 kills on .333 hitting with 18 digs at Hofstra on Oct. 14...was named CAA Co-Player of the Week on Oct. 9 as she compiled a .393 attacking percentage, averaging four kills per game as she posted a double-double in both of NU’s wins on Oct 6 and 8...Has recorded a double-double in four consecutive matches and has seven on the season...Posted back-to-back double-doubles, her fourth and fifth of the season, against George Mason on Sept. 29 and James Madison on Oct. 1...Against Mason on Sept. 29, recorded match highs of 20 kills and 22 digs...Against JMU on Oct. 1, racked up 17 kills and 16 digs...Posted a double-double in the win over Towson on Sept. 23 with 18 kills and 21 digs...Recorded 17 kills and 23 digs for a double-double on Sept. 16 against William and Mary...Was one assist shy of a triple double with a season-high 30 digs and 10 kills against Utah Valley State on Aug. 26. 2005: Appeared in all 27 matches and 105 games for the Huskies...Led the Huskies with 516 digs (4.91 per game) and finished third in the CAA...Finished sixth on the team with 107 kills despite only playing nine matches as an outside hitter...Posted 30 digs in a four-game loss to Hofstra on Nov. 12, the third straight match in which she tallied 30 or more digs...Set a Northeastern record with 40 digs in a five-game loss to Towson on Nov. 5...Matched a career-high with 35 digs against Delaware on Nov. 4...Made 24 digs in a four-game loss to Georgia State on Oct. 22...Notched a career-high 35 digs in NU's 3-1 victory over William & Mary Sept. 23...Registered 18 kills and 20 digs against UC-Riverside on Sept. 13...Tallied 11 kills and 13 digs in a four-game victory over George Mason Sept. 11...Posted a double-double with 12 kills and 12 digs against James Madison Sept. 9...Registered 25 digs in first match as NU's libero on Aug. 27 against UMBC...Followed that up with 26 digs against Villanova on Aug. 27. 2004: Appeared in 109 matches at outside hitter...named America East Rookie of the Year, earned spot on the All-Rookie Team and was All-Conference honorable mention...named America East Rookie of the Week a conference-high five times (Sept. 20, Sept. 27, Oct. 18, Oct. 25, and Nov. 8)...placed ninth in America East in service aces per game (0.35)...finished first on the team in service aces (39) and was second on the team in kills (308) and digs (484)...tallied 12 double-doubles on the season...recorded 10 kills and career-high 32 digs in win over Connecticut Sept. 14...had 19 kills and 12 digs in win over Syracuse Sept. 25...tallied 19 kills and 28 digs in victory over UMBC Oct. 16...registered 16 kills and team-high 27 digs against Maine Nov. 6...best effort came in win over UMBC Nov. 12, when she recorded a career-best 21 kills and added 20 digs...game-winning kill gave the Huskies a 39-37 edge over the Retrievers in the first game of a four-game victory. High School: Played four years of varsity volleyball at Downers Grove South High School…played point guard and served as captain for the basketball team…named “one of the top 30 volleyball players in Illinois” by the Chicago Tribune in 2003…led the Sports Performance volleyball club team to back-to-back AAU National Championships in the 18-open division in 2003 and 2004, and a gold medal at the Tampa Bay Qualifiers. Personal: Born Aug. 1, 1985…majoring in Business…Class of 2008. |
| #5 Kira Batura Statistics |
 Season GP-MP K K/G E TA Pct A A/G SA SA/G SE 2004................ 113-31 308 2.73 173 1011 .134 31 0.27 39 0.35 30 2005................ 105-27 107 1.02 57 362 .138 27 0.26 31 0.30 23 2006................ 102-27 319 3.13 122 922 .214 39 0.38 29 0.28 23 2007................ 103-28 299 2.90 156 988 .145 23 0.22 29 0.28 20 TOTAL............... 423-113 1033 2.44 508 3283 .160 120 0.28 128 0.30 96 Season DIG D/G RE BS BA TB B/G BE BHE Points Pts/G 2004................ 484 4.28 33 1 34 35 0.31 2 4 365.0 3.23 2005................ 516 4.91 36 0 7 7 0.07 0 1 141.5 1.34 2006................ 450 4.41 22 8 35 43 0.42 2 4 373.5 3.66 2007................ 438 4.25 30 3 32 35 0.34 2 0 347.0 3.37 TOTAL............... 1888 4.46 121 12 108 120 0.28 6 9 1227.0 2.90 |
