AKRON, Ohio — Zips' volleyball head coach Tom Hanna announced on Wednesday that Jelena Slijepcevic (Ruma, Serbia) and Shelby Fulmer (Perrysburg, Ohio) will be joining the program for the 2017-18 academic year.
A junior college transfer, 5-9 Slijepcevic (pronounced Slip-cev-ich) was a setter at Northwest College. She is a two-time NJCAA Region IX Academic All-Region (2015, 16) and NJCAA Academic All-American 2015, 16). She was named to the 2016 Region IX North All-Tournament Team. Northwest College finished fourth at 2015 NJCAA Division I National tournament and sixth in 2016.