2024 Lady Demon Volleyball Roster
Biography
2024 Season
Started all 25 matches and play in all 91 sets on the season as the team's starting libero for the third straight season...led the team in digs with 355 and a 3.90 per set rate, the sixth highest rate in the Southland Conference...it was her third straight 300-dig season...had five 20-dig matches on the season including back-to-back matches against UIW (11/7) and at HCU (11/9)...season-best 25 digs came in the match at HCU as part of her two straight 20-dig performances...became just the third player to surpass 1,400 career digs and finished her career ranked third on the career digs leaderboard with 1,453...also ranks third all-time in career digs per set at 3.89...had more than 10 digs 70 times in her career in 102 total matches played.
2023 Season
        Southland Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 30)
Started all 31 matches and played in all 109 sets on the season, leading the team in digs for the second straight season with 481 and a 4.41 per set averaged...became the third player in NSU history with consecutive 400-dig seasons joining Channing Burleson and Keelie Arneson on the list...joined NSU's 1,000-dig club in her second full season as the Demon libero...her 481 digs was the third most in the Southland Conference on the season and the 11th most in a single season at NSU...recorded six 20-digs matches on the season including two cases with consecutive such performances in the same week, both during conference play...averaged 25.5 digs per match and 5.1 digs per set during week six of the season to earn SLC Defensive Player of the Week...had a career-high 33 digs across four sets in the win at Texas Southern...recorded a career high four aces against UCLA (Aug. 28).
2022 Season
   Southland Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 19)
First season as the Lady Demons' starting libero where she collected the seventh most digs in a single season with 530 at a 4.31 per set rate...along with Symone Wesley became the first defensive duo to collect 500 or more digs in the same season...landed in the top 10 in conference matches in digs per set at 4.05...had the fourth most digs overall in the Southland on the season with the fifth best per set average (4.31)...had 10 matches on the season with 20 or more digs and set a new career high with 32 digs in the conference tournament semifinal against Houston Christian (Nov. 19)...averaged 25.3 digs per match in the three conference tournament matches...nearly collected a pair of assist-dig double-doubles on the season with nine assists and 29 digs against Louisiana Tech (Sept. 16) and nine assists and 28 digs at Nicholls (Oct. 6)...had eight assists, 29 digs and a season-best three aces against Texas A&M-Commerce (Nov. 12)....named conference defensive player of the week after setting a then career-high 29-dig match against Louisiana Tech (Sept. 16), she averaged 7.0 digs per set that week against Jackson State (Sept. 13) and 5.23 per set for the five-match week.
2021 Season
   Southland Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll
Started 11 matches and made 17 total appearances in her first season at NSU...made her first career start and appearance against Tulane (Aug. 27)...finished the season with 23 total kills and 87 digs...had a season-high four kills in the regular-season finale against Nicholls (Nov. 13)...reached double-figure digs in the SLC Tournament match against Nicholls (Nov. 18) with a season-high 11 digs...had 10 total matches with five or more digs.
High School
Four-year letter winner and four-time district champion at Friendswood HS in the Houston area…tallied more than 1,000 digs and 1,000 kills in her prep career…three-time Texas Girls Coaches Association, Texas Sports Writer's Association and Texas Association of Volleyball Coaches All-State, and two-time VYPE All-State player…from her sophomore through senior seasons named Galveston County Player of the Year and the Greater Houston Volleyball Coaches Association Player of the Year…as a senior was named the District 22-5A MVP, a TGCA All-Star, American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region Four player and First-Team All-GHVCA…following her junior season was named to both the Texas All-Star and state all-tournament teams, named district offensive MVP and the Houston Chronicle All-Greater Houston team…earned the Houston Chronicle Newcomer of the Year honor as a sophomore along with her first district MVP award and was also named to the Houston Chronicle All-Greater Houston team…earned Academic All-District honors in her final three seasons at FHS…finished ninth at the 2019 USAV Open Division Sand Volleyball Nationals.
Personal
Daughter of Melissa and Sheldon Svoboda…has one younger sister Mallory…general studies major with a minor in biology and concentration in natural and computer sciences.
Statistics
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Historical Player Information
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2021Freshman
Outside Hitter/Libero
5'9"
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2022Sophomore
Libero
5'9"
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