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Karen Ill Piper
Karen Ill Piper

Experience:
2002 Inductee
Sport:
Volleyball 1992-97



IllPiperUnveiling2002.jpg (24628 bytes)Oakland University's first ever volleyball All-American, Karen Piper is one of the finest players the university has seen. A four-year letterwinner for OU volleyball, Piper was also a two-year letterwinner in basketball (1992-94).

Piper was a three-time All-GLIAC and two-time All-Region honoree throughout her career. Team captain for her last two years, Piper still holds single match (30 vs. Northwood 1995) and season kills per game (4.77 in 1995) records, as well as career hitting percentage (.314) and career kills per game (3.48) records.

In 1993, Piper led OU to its first ever berth to the NCAA Tournament. Throughout her college career, she was also a counselor for basketball and volleyball camps as well as a member of the Sigma Theta Tau National Honor Society of Nursing.

Piper graduated from Oakland with a degree in nursing, and spent three years working as a registered nurse in labor and delivery. She is currently attending graduate school at OU to receive a master's of science in nursing (for anesthesia). Piper will graduate in May 2003 as a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA).

Karen resides with her husband, Jeffrey, in Ferndale, Michigan.

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