Aly Squires

Height:
6-1
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Santa Ynez, Calif.

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

CAREER TOTALS
Year	SP	K	E	TA	PCT.	A	SA	DIG	BS	BA
2010	78	119	56	415	.152	3	0	38	3	32
2011	109	372	166	1284	.160	11	17	338	9	62
2012	119	443	131	1477	.211	19	13	353	11	52
2013	117	337	115	1115	.199	29	15	309	10	69
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Totals	423	1271	468	4291	.187	62	45	1038	33	215