Savanah Parra returns for her third season with the Braves and will work primarily with Bradley's setters.
A two-year starter at setter for Ohio University, she helped Sam Black post a career-high 1,016 assists in 2008 as Black finished her career fifth on Bradley's career assist chart in addition to helping the Braves double their win total from the previous year.
During her second year on The Hilltop in 2009, she helped Bradley post its highest win total since the 2005 season.
Parra graduated from Ohio with a Bachelor of Science in Hearing, Speech and Language Science in 2007 and joined the Bradley coaching staff after serving as an assistant coach at the University of Southern Indiana. She helped the Screaming Eagles to a 15-14 overall record in her only season at the Evansville, Ind., school.
A native of Temecula, Calif., she had a stellar career at Ohio where the Bobcats were 118-16 (.881) during her four years (2003-06) at the Athens, Ohio, school. Ohio dominated the Mid American Conference during that span, going 63-1 (.984) in regular-season conference matches. The Bobcats, which were 61-8 overall and 32-0 in MAC play with Parra at starting setter, also claimed four consecutive MAC tournament titles and made four straight NCAA Tournament appearances.
Parra ranks third in career assists at Ohio with 3,219 and also ranks in the top 10 in school history in career aces (127) and digs (972). She holds the top two season totals for assists at Ohio and was named the MAC Tournament MVP in 2005 and later helped to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 in her first season as the starting setter.
A two-time second-team All-MAC selection she earned honorable mention AVCA All-Region recognition as a junior and senior and was second in the NCAA in assists per game as a junior.