California Irvine Athletics

2013

• All-Big West honorable mention
• Posted a team-best 337 kills and was second in kill average(2.88) and digs (2.64)
• Third in blocks at 0.68
• Pioneer Classic Most Valuable Player
• Cleveland State, Wolverine Classic and UCI Classicall-tournament team choice
• Leaves UCI fourth in the career records in attack attempts(4291) and seventh in kills (1,271)
• Also ninth in career digs with 1,038
• In the single-season annals multiple times in both attackattempts and kills

2012

• Big West All-Conference honorable mention
• Earned a spot on the Varney Invitational, Boise StateInvitational and Arizona Desert Classic All-Tournament teams
• Put away a team-leading 443 kills and averaged 3.72 perset
• Moved to seventh in the Anteater career record books with 3,176attack attempts
• Second on the team in digs with 353 and a 2.97 average
• Finished sixth in the Big West in kills and points
• Season-high 23 kills against Cal State Fullerton
• Picked up 22 digs against Pacific for a season-best

2011

• Big West All-Conference honorable mention
• Member of the U.S. Women’s A2 National Team
• Chosen to compete on the U.S. Women’s Under 21 BeachNational Training Team
• Lead UCI in kills with 355 and averaging 3.41 per set to sitseventh in the Big West last year
• Second on the team in digs with 329 and third in blocks with67
• Posted double-figure kills in 21 matches…career-best 26against Portland State
• Personal-best 24 digs against Cal State Fullerton and four acesversus Nevada.

2010

• Put away 119 kills in 78 sets played
• Averaged 1.53 kills per set
• Picked up 38 digs and had 35 total blocks on three solo blocksand 32 block assists
• Career-high 11 kills against UC Riverside
• Top hitting percentage was .429 against Idaho
• Posted an errorless match against the Vandals with six kills on14 attempts
• Won a silver medal in the U-21 Division of the USA Beach HighPerformance Tournament.

Santa Ynez Valley Union High School

• Three-time Los Padres League Most Valuable Player
• Three-time team MVP
• Captained the 2009 squad
• Named the Northern Santa Barbara County Round Table Athlete ofthe Week
• Voted to the All-CIF Division III second-team as a junior andsenior
• Posted 309 kills and 88 aces as a senior
• Also had 24 solo blocks and averaged 5.26 points per game
• Holds the school’s single-match record in attackpercentage with a .894 clip against Arroyo Grande in 2008
• 2007 All-CIF first-team selection
• Recognized on the PrepVolleyball.com Top 79 sophomore list
• Received the Coaches Award as a freshman
• Earned all-league second-team honors in 2006
• Also lettered in track…was the varsity throwing captainin 2010
• Competed in the discus, high jump and long jump
• Received the Coaches Award in 2007 and 2008
• Set a record in the discus in the La Reina Invitational as ajunior
• was the league’s discus champion as a junior
• Finished second in the discus at CIF in 2008 and 2009.

Club

• A member of the Athletes in Action
• Also is active in UC Irvine’s Student-Athlete AdvisoryCommittee
• Played with the Santa Barbara Volleyball Club
• Highest finish of second place at the Junior Olympics 18sNational in 2009
• Helped the team to the MLK Speakeasy Tournament titles in 2009and 2010
• Captained the 18 Smack Team
• Also led the team to a Southern California VolleyballAssociation Regional Tournament championship in 2010
• Competed on several U.S. High Performance A2 teams
• Won a gold medal with the Southern California High PerformanceRed Select Team in 2007.

Personal

• Three-time Big West Scholar-Athlete
• All-Big West Fall Academic Team
• On the executive board of Athletes in Action at UCI
• Plans to work towards a Master’s in Education aftergraduation
• California Scholarship Federation member…member of theNational Honor Society
• Great-grandparents, Floyd and Margaret Finley Blower, were fromthe original Orange County pioneer families
• Grandmother, Linda Dempsay, worked at UC Irvine from 1965-83and was the first female Athletic Director at the Division Ilevel
• Served as UCI’s Athletic Director from 1977-83
• Dempsay is a member of the Irvine Athletics Hall of Fame
• Member of the Future Farmers of America
• Received the Greenhand Award in 2006-07
• also received the Specialty Crop Production Award
• Conducts community service at the Santa Ynez Valley TherapeuticRiding Association
• Is a teacher’s assistant at Los Olivos School
• Tutors algebra
• Has had a job in sheep management at the Santa Ynez High SchoolFarm
• Was the sophomore representative of the Hugh O’BrianLeadership seminar
• Majoring in sociology, minoring in education
• Has a younger brother, Kristian.  

Career Highlights

Kills: 26 vs. Portland State, 9/10/11
Aces: 4 vs. Nevada, 8/27/11
Digs: 24 vs. Cal State Fullerton, 11/1/11
Block assists: 7 vs. Cleveland State, 9/7/13
Total blocks: 7 vs. Cleveland State, 9/7/13