2009 [Senior] Finished her senior season as IUPUI's all-time assists leader with 3,930 assists in her four-year career ... Was selected First Team All-Summit for the second straight season after keying the IUPUI attack from the setter spot ... Picked up Summit League Setter of the Year honors after turning in 1,042 sets on the season - 608 in 16 conference matches ... Recorded 20 double-doubles in the season, including a 47-assist, 20-dig effort in a five-set win at Western Illinois on Nov. 14 ... Her 56 assists in IUPUI's five-set win over Western Kentucky on Sept. 5 were the fourth-highest total in The Summit League in 2009 ... Went over the 40-assist mark on 12 occasions ... Earned Most Valuable Player honors at the Hotels at Grand Prairie Invitational after leading IUPUI to the tournament title ... Set a new career high with 8 kills on two separate occasions (Oct. 17 at UMKC; Nov. 7 vs. Oakland) ... Picked Summit League Offensive Player of the Week honors twice during her senior year, on Aug. 31 and on Nov. 9 ... 21 service aces tied for second on the team ... Was one of five Jaguars with over 200 digs, recording 335, setting a new career high ... Helped IUPUI finished third in the nation in digging with 18.79 digs per set, a year after the Jags took first in the country ... With 9.83 assists per set, ranked 117th in the NCAA ... Passed Tanna Smith (3,814) and Kristy Burns (3,499) on her way to the school's top assist total ... Her 9.20 assists per set ranks fourth in school history ... Finished her career ranked in the top ten in sets (8th - 427), service aces (7th - 133) and digs (8th - 1,217) ... Is 12th in matches played (116) ... Named to The Summit League Commissioner's List for Academic Excellence after accumulating a GPA above a 3.00.
2008 [Junior] Earned First Team All-Summit League honors after pacing the conference with 1,194 assists, the eighth-best total in school history ... Was the only setter to be named to the conference first team ... Her 10.29 assists per set led all Summit League setters and ranked 73rd in the NCAA ... Played in 30 matches and 116 sets, both career bests ... Tallied 17 double-doubles during the year, all of the assist-dig variety ... Had three of the top five assist matches in The Summit League, including a season-best 61 assists on Oct. 24 versus Western Illinois ... Went over the 50-assist plateau on five occasions ... 27 service aces ranked second on the team ... Recorded season-best 4 service aces on Oct. 31 in IUPUI’s five-set win over South Dakota State ... Matched her career-high with 25 digs in the Jaguars’ win over Evansville ... Recorded a career-high 5 blocks, including a career-best 5 block assists, at South Dakota State on Oct. 11 ... Voted to the IUPUI Hampton Inn Invitational All-Tournament Team after leading the Jaguars to a runner-up finish ... Named The Summit League Offensive Player of the Week on Nov. 17 after compiling 73 assists in a two-game stretch ... Sits third on IUPUI’s career assists list with 2,888 helpers ... Her 8.99 assists per set ranks fifth in school history ... Ranks in IUPUI top 25 in matches (24th-88),sets (22nd-321), service aces (12th-1,112) and digs (13th-882) ... Named to the IUPUI Academic Advisor’s List for the spring semester.
2007 [Sophomore] Took over as team’s primary setter in her sophomore year, leading the Jaguars with 1099 assists, the seventh-best total in IUPUI volleyball history ... Appeared in 101 games and 28 of IUPUI’s 30 matches ... Her 10.88 assists per game were the fifth-highest in school history ... Tallied 17 double-doubles in 28 matches, all of the assist-dig variety ... Set new career highs in assists, kills (85), attempts (269), service aces (55), digs (318) and blocks (44) ... Posted new career-high 64 assists in IUPUI’s five-game loss to South Dakota State on Sept. 22 ... Matched her career-best with 5 service aces against UMKC on Nov. 10 and tallied at least one service ace in 24 of the 28 matches in which she appeared ... Had only one match in which she did not reach at least 20 assists (3 vs. Connecticut, Sept. 7) ... Led all Summit League players in service aces with 55 in 101 games, an average of 0.54 per game ... Goodnight ranked fifth in The Summit with 10.88 assists per game ... In conference play, Goodnight averaged 0.64 aces per game to pace The Summit ... Her 11.45 assists per game in 56 conference games aws fourth in The Summit ... Was the only IUPUI player to be ranked on the NCAA Leaderboard, placing 26th in the nation with 0.54 service aces per game ... Ranks 8th on the IUPUI career assist list with 1,694 helpers ... Her average of 8.26 assists per game ranks 7th on the career list ... Named to the IUPUI Academic Advisor’s List for the fall semesters ... Also placed on the Summit League Academic All-Conference Team for her work in the fall semester ... Recognized on The Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence for the 2007-08 academic year.
2006 [Freshman]: Appeared in 30 of 32 matches, starting 16 ... Posted 34 kills, 595 assists, 30 service aces, 230 digs and seven total blocks ... 595 assists led the Jaguars, while 230 digs were fifth on the team ... Named to the Mid-Continent Conference All-Freshman Team after tallying nine kills, 258 assists, eight service aces and 99 digs in 12 conference matches ... Set career highs with seven kills and five service aces against Charleston Southern on Sept. 2 ... Tallied 55 assists versus Ball State on Sept. 6 while recording two block assists and two total blocks to set career-bests ... 1.000 hitting percentage against Centenary on Oct. 20 was a career-high ... Also had a .700 hitting percentage in 10 attempts on Sept. 2 ... Mark tied for the fifth-highest hitting percentage among players with 10-14 attempts in IUPUI history ... Was among the conference leaders in assists, placing eighth with 6.45 per game ... In Mid-Con play, ranked ninth with 5.72 assists per game ... Named to the IUPUI Academic Advisor’s List for the Fall semester ... Also named to the Mid-Continent Conference Academic All-Conference Team.
High School: Four-year letterwinner... Served as team captain on squad that won IHSAA Class 4A State title her senior year ... Selected to Indiana All-Star Team following her senior season ... Was named Metro West Player of the Year by The Indianapolis Star ... Also named to The Indianapolis Star Super Team ... Led team with 351 digs as a senior ... Also tallied 295 kills, 90 assists and 42 blocks her final campaign ... Named All-Conference Indiana her final three seasons ... Named All-Conference by Mid-State Conference her senior year when Martinsville had dual conference membership ... Named All-American as she and IUPUI teammate Hillary Houston’s 18-1’s Circle City club team finished second in the American Division of the USA Junior National Tournament in Atlanta in 2006 ... She was named to the named to All-Tournament Team as she and Houston’s 17-1’s squad won the American Division Championship in Salt Lake City in 2005.
Personal: Full name is Danielle Marie Goodnight ... Born October 29, 1987 in Martinsville, Indiana ... Nickname is “Dani” ... Daughter of Al and Debbie Goodnight ... Has a younger sister -- Michelle ... Hobbies include scrapbooking and shopping ... Enrolled in the School of Science.
