COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. December 29, 2004– It has been a memorable year for 2004 Olympian and Stanford senior outside hitter Ogonna Nnamani. She became the Pacific-10 Conference and school record-holder in career kills with 2,263, she was named the Player of the Year for the first time and to the All-Pac-10 first team for the fourth time. And Nnamani captured Academic All-America of the Year honors from ESPN the Magazine and the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Nnamani, a three-time American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-America selection, becomes the ninth Stanford player to be named Pac-10 Player of the Year. Those nine players have combined to win the Pac-10 Player of the Year honor a total of 11 times.

She is also the 10th player in Pac-10 history to be named All-Conference four times. Nnamani led Stanford to a second-place finish in Pac-10 play at 15-3, and to the NCAA Championship defeating Minnesota. Nnamani led the Pac-10 Conference in kills (5.88 kpg) and points (6.55 ppg) while posting the league's sixth-best attack percentage (.343) this season. She has blasted a Stanford single-season record 658 kills this season.

During her career, the 2004 USA Olympic team member has collected a Pac-10 record 2,285 kills on a league record 5,164 attack attempts. She also has tallied double-digit kills in 59 consecutive matches.

Nnamani was named the Academic All-America of the Year for the university division while Carli Dale, the AVCA Division III National Player of the Year from Juniata College, received the honor for the college division. Nnamani was previously selected to the Academic All-America third team in both 2002 and 2003. She has compiled a 3.44 grade point average as a human biology major.