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Yana Ninova (Johnson)

  • Class
    2004
  • Induction
    2014
  • Sport(s)
    Volleyball
Jana Ninova, from Viden, Bulgaria, was a four-year starter on UNA volleyball teams from 2000-03 and earned All-American honors as both a junior and senior. She helped lead UNA to a combined 135-19 record during her career that included three Gulf South Conference championships (2000, 2001, 2002), four straight NCAA Tournament appearances (2000-03), two Division II Regional Championships (2000, 2003) and the school’s first NCAA Division II National Championship in a women’s sport with a volleyball title in 2003.

She was a four-time All-Gulf South Conference and four-time All-South Central Region selection and was a third-team American Volleyball Coaches Association All-American selection in 2002 and an AVCA and Daktronics first-team All-American pick in 2003.

Ninova ranked 12th in the nation in kills in 2003 with 4.82 per match and was second nationally as a senior in 2003 with 6.12. She also ranked 10th nationally in hitting percentage as a senior at .411.

Ninova received her Bachelor of Business Aministration (B.B.A.) Economics, Finance from UNA in 2004. She then served as an assistant volleyball coach the University of South Alabama from 2007-2011. In 2011 she made the transition to a graduate assistant position at South Alabama while earning her Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree, which she completed in 2013.

At the time of her induction, she was Head of Marketing at TradingPub, a financial services company in Mobile.

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