Former Volleyball Standout Signs Pro Contract

Former Red Raider Colleen Smith was signed by Metodo Minetti.

Former Volleyball Standout Signs Pro Contract

July 08, 2002 | Women's Volleyball

July 8, 2002

LUBBOCK, Texas - Former Texas Tech volleyball standout Colleen Smith has signed a pro-contract to play center for Metodo Minetti Vicenza for the upcoming 2002-2003 season.

Smith was discovered last May in Croatia while playing in the Spring Cup, a team co-coached by current Texas Tech volleyball coach Jeff Nelson. The Albuquerque, N.M., native impressed coach Giovanni Guidetti at workout trials and was signed on July 2.

"She is a very interesting player, with big physique and ready in some fundamentals for the volleyball of high level," said Guidetti. "In other areas she still has to work, for me it will be a pleasure helping her grow."

The 24 year-old Smith played for Nelson during the 1999-2000 seasons and holds the single-season record for kills and attack attempts, recording 560 kills in 1,370 attempts during the 2000 season.