Colorado Mesa University Athletics

Beach Volleyball Bio

Overall Career Honors

Indoor

• 2x AVCA Honorable Mention All-American (2022 & 2023)
• 2x AVCA All-South Central Region
  • First Team (2023)
  • Honorable Mention (2022)
• 2x D2CCA All-South Central Region
  • First Team (2022)
  • Second Team (2023)
• 4x Overall All-RMAC
  • 2x First Team - Spring 2021; 2023
  • 2x Second Team- Fall 2021 & 2022
• NCAA South Central Regional All-Tournament Team (2022)
• RMAC All-Tournament Team (2022)
• 6x RMAC Player of the Week
  • 5x Offensive
    • Mar. 29 & Apr. 5, 2021
    • Sept. 11, Sept. 18 & Nov. 13, 2023
  • 1x Defensive
    • Oct. 30, 2023
• Oredigger Volleyball Classic All-Tournament Team (2023)
• DoubleTree by Hilton Maverick Fall Classic All-Tournament Team (2023)

Beach

• AVCA Small College Beach Championship All-American (2022)
• CMU Single-Season Wins Record Holder (24; 2023)

Indoor Career Synopsis: Finished her career with a .370 attack percentage, the third best in CMU history… Had three of the five best single-season marks… Completed her career with 1,027 total points… Went over the 1,000 mark on her Senior Day against South Dakota Mines (Nov. 11)… Tallied 869 career kills.

2023 (Redshirt Senior): Led the RMAC by a wide 25-point margin with a .386 attack percentage, earning Honorable Mention All-America honors for the second straight year after what was her best of five seasons as a Mavericks… Was also an all-region pick for the second straight year as a First Team AVCA All-South Central Region pick… Was a second team pick by the Division II Conference Commissioners’ Association… Earned First Team All-RMAC honors for the second time while becoming a 4-time overall All-RMAC selection… Earned four RMAC Player of the Week honors throughout the season, earning offensive awards on Sept. 11, Sept. 18 and Nov. 13 while picking up the defensive honor on Oct. 30… Capped her career with six total RMAC Player of the Week honors... Was named to the all-tournament team at both of CMU’s early season tournaments… Finished the year with 314 kills, the second highest total on the team… Averaged 3.11 per set to rank tenth in the RMAC… Also tallied 372 total points to rank eighth in the RMAC for points per set (3.68)…  Was ranked 14^th nationally with her attack percentage, which was the fourth best in CMU history… Was second on the team in both kills and total points behind RMAC leader and Player of the Year Sydney Leffler… Was second on the team with 58 total blocks (0.57)… Was also second on the team with 25 service aces… Was in double-figures for kills in 19 different matches, recording a career-high 22 on Oct. 21 at Colorado Christian… That was part of a 11-match double-figure streak from Oct. 6-Nov. 11… Had started that streak with 17 kills on .500 hitting against CSU Pueblo… Also had 17 kills while hitting a season-best .652 (minimums met) against Cal Poly Humboldt… Hit .500 or higher in six different matches, including at a .563 clip with ten kills in the Mavs’ NCAA Tournament match against DBU… Also hit .800 with four kills on five swings in a Sept. 28 sweep over Western Colorado… Matched a career-high by recording seven blocks , including two of her eight solos, on Sept. 16 at Fort Lewis… Had a pair of 3-aces matches... Started all 29 of the Mavs’ matches while playing in all 101 sets of the campaign.

2022 (Redshirt Junior): Was named as an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American and Honorable Mention All-South Central region pick… Also earned D2CCA First Team All-South Central Region honors as selected by the region’s sports information directors… Also picked up Second Team All-RMAC honors, her third consecutive overall all-conference honor… Shined in the post-season, earning a spot on both the RMAC and NCAA South Central All-Region Tournament teams… Led the RMAC with a .389 hitting percentage after flirting with .400… Her mark was the program’s third best in the rally-scoring era and ranked her 11^th in Division II for the season… Finished the season with 238 kills (2.38/set), 53 blocks (0.53), 15 aces (0.15/set) and 284 total points (2.84/set)… Played and started 28 matches while appearing in 100 of the team’s 103 sets, missing one match due to injury…  Hit .600 or higher in eight matches… Was in double-figures for kills in 11, including all four post-season encounters… Recorded 48 kills in those four matches alone… Had a season-high 16 kills at Western Colorado on Oct. 21… Also had a season-high six blocks in that match… Hit an error-less .696 in that match after hitting .779 with seven kills against Northern State and .769 with 11 kills and just one error against Tusculum (Sept. 3).

Fall 2021 (Redshirt Sophomore): Earned Second Team All-RMAC honors after recording 186 kills, 43 blocks and a .341 hitting percentage… Played in and started 26 of the Mavs’ 28 matches… Was ranked fourth in the RMAC with her hitting percentage… Was fourth on the team in kills and total points (216) while ranking second on the squad in blocks… Was in double-figures for kills four times… Recorded a season-high 12 while hitting .429 against Arkansas Tech (Sept. 11)… Hit above .500 five times, recording a season-best .600 mark with nine kills on an errorless 15 swings against Fort Lewis (Oct. 30)… Had a career-high eight blocks against Seattle Pacific on Sept. 4.

Spring 2021 (Sophomore): Named to the First Team All-RMAC unit after a strong overall season, which saw her hit a team-best .377 from her middle hitter position… That mark was the fourth highest percentage in the RMAC and is the third best single-season mark in CMU history behind only Kasie Gilfert's 2018 and 2019 marks… Played in and started all 16 of CMU’s matches… Finished second on the team in total kills (128), blocks (38) and points (150.5)… Finished in double figures for kills six matches, tallying a career-high 18 at Western Colorado on Mar. 27… Also hit .500 while tallying a season-high seven blocks in that match en-route to the first of two consecutive RMAC Offensive Player of the Week awards that she earned on Mar. 29 and Apr. 5… Had recorded 13 kills on .571 hitting in a RMAC-title clinching win at the Colorado School of Mines on Mar. 29… Hit .500 or better in five matches while hitting .400 or better in nine throughout the campaign... Had a season-best and error-less .600 hitting percentage with 10 kills against Black Hills State on Mar. 19.

2019 (Freshman): Played in seven matches and 12 total sets… Started CMU’s first two matches of the year on the right side… Recorded three kills, three blocks and five digs throughout the year… Had two kills, three digs and two blocks in her debut against Fresno Pacific on Sept. 6… Those were each season-highs.

Prep: All-state and First Team All-Centennial League selection as a senior for Terry Miller coached Cherokee Trail High School Cougars… Led the league in hitting while ranking fourth in the state with her .455 hitting percentage… Was also ranked second in the league with 120 blocks and fifth for kills with 266… Was also named to the Regis Jesuit Jam All-Tournament team as a senior… Was a second team all-league selection as a junior in 2017… Also earned the team's most improved player award and honorable mention academic all-state honors that year.
 
Club: Played for the Colorado Juniors Volleyball Club… Helped the team to a first place finish at the 2018 Northern Lights Junior National Qualifier and fifth place finishes at both the Colorado Crossroads and Windy City tournaments… The team also won the Zelinkoff Bid Qualifier in 2017 and finished third at Colorado Crossroads in 2019.
 
Personal: Plans to major in exercise science… Daughter of Tarl and Barbara Spitzer… Has one younger brother, Kyle.
 
Why I Chose CMU: "When I took a tour of the campus during my sophomore year, I fell in love with CMU. The campus was the right size for me and I felt I can make a name for myself here. The exercise science lab impressed me as it was what I wanted to study. The school's focus on academics was my first priority. I was attracted to the activities that were found on the campus, in Grand Junction and around the area. After visiting several other colleges, I realized that I was comparing all of them to CMU, and they just did not stack up. Once I had met the team and the coaching staff I knew that I had found my university."
 
Career Aspirations: "Upon graduation I want to coach club volleyball and train athletes. So many of my coaches contributed to who I am today that I cannot ignore their influence and the importance that sports played in my life. It is my goal to help young players find their way into the sport that I love so much. I want to help young players find direction, self-confidence, strength and a sense of purpose through playing a team sport. I also want to find those athletes who a striving for more and help then recognize their full potential on, and off, the court."