Seidu Ajanako: Making Ghana Proud in America

Going almost unnoticed in a country that craves football, basketball, and volleyball, Seidu Ajanako has quietly put together an impressive season of volleyball for his Park University team. Impressively, in his very first year at the university, Seidu leads the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)--the national governing body for approximately 350 small-college athletics programs in the United States--in kills, what in old-time Ghana volleyball was referred to as spikes or smashes. As the link (http://home.earthlink.net/~bwamelink/naia/natstat.html) and tables below indicate, Seidu also stands in eight place in service aces.

Seidu's progress can be followed by logging in to Park University's volleyball website: http://www.park.edu/athletic/Sports/Volleyball-M/

NAIA/Tachikara National Individual Statistics of 03/05/2003:

5 Brent Fox Moody 62 258 4.161

6 Phil Goedeker MO Baptist 44 177 4.022

7 BJ Lightvoet Woods 68 269 3.955

8 Tomasz Radojewski Kendall 53 198 3.735

9 Dennis Arensen Trinity International 31 111 3.580

10 Chad Meeuwse Trinity Christian 62 220 3.548

Service Aces per Game
Name School Gms Aces SA/G

1 Phil Goedeker MO Baptist 44 36 0.818

2 BJ Lightvoet Woods 68 55 0.808

3 Caleb Fetui Hope 35 21 0.600

4 Shaun Dyk Cal Baptist 33 19 0.575

5 Brandon Whiteside MO Baptist 46 26 0.565

6 Jonathan Larson Hope 32 18 0.562

7 Adam Stemple Cardinal 50 28 0.560

8 Seidu Ajanako Park 45 24 0.533

9 Brandon Deering MO Valley 41 20 0.487

10 Jason McGirr Newman 52 24 0.461