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Kyla Swanson Season 2023

#6

Kyla Swanson Season 2023

PositionMB
Height6-4
ClassGraduate Student
HometownWahoo, Neb.
Previous SchoolIllinois

HONORS & AWARDS
2x Academic All-Big Ten

2022 | AT ILLINOIS
Played in 15 matches... Averaged 1.21 kills per set with a .283 hitting percentage... Had a season-high six kills on the road against No. 1 Wisconsin... Compiled 41 blocks across the season... Ended the year averaging 0.86 blocks per set... Registered a season-best seven blocks at home against Northwestern... Had five or more blocks on four different occasions.

2021 | AT ILLINOIS
Started 26 of the 27 matches she saw action in, playing in 101 sets... Ranked second on the team with 106 blocks and a .329 hitting percentage, while also totaling 149 kills for a 1.48 kills per set mark and posting 13 digs... Totaled seven kills on a .538 hitting percentage and paced the team with four blocks at No. 7 Kentucky (12/4/21) in the NCAA Second Round.... Notched 10 kills on a team-high .562 attack clip and a team-high six blocks vs. West Virginia (12/3/21) in the NCAA First Round... Registered seven kills on a .429 attack clip and three blocks vs. No. 10 Ohio State (11/14/21)... Posted eight kills on 11 swings and no errors for a .727 attack clip and led the match with seven blocks at No. 13 Penn State (10/30/21)... Totaled six kills with no errors on eight swings for a .750 hitting percentage to go along with four blocks vs. Michigan (10/23/21)... Had six blocks - including a pair of solo stuffs - in a win at Northwestern (10/20/21)... Tallied back-to-back nine block outings against Iowa (9/22/21) and Northwestern (9/25/21)... Posted five blocks against No. 11 Washington (9/3/21)... Totaled 21 kills and 14 blocks at the Panther Invite... Registered her first-career double-double with career highs of 10 kills and 10 blocks in a five-set win over UCSB (8/27/21). 

2020 | AT ILLINOIS
Played in seven matches, starting four of them and seeing action in 21 sets in the conference-only 2020-21 shortened season... Totaled 20 kills on a .172 hitting percentage, 16 blocks, six digs and assist... Started both matches at No. 8 Purdue, posting six kills on a .308 attack clip and three blocks on Friday (4/2), before turning in a career-high six blocks on Saturday (4/3)... Saw action in two sets against No. 5 Minnesota (3/13/21), notching two kills... Tallied season-highs of four kills, three digs and five blocks vs Ohio State (2/20/21)... Made her 2021 season debut at Penn State (2/5/21), posting one kill and one assist.

2019 | AT ILLINOIS
Started three of the five matches she saw action in... Totaled seven kills, 11 blocks and seven digs in 16 sets... Saw action in two sets at Michigan (11/9), posting two blocks... Made her Illini debut in a season-opening road win at No. 19 Tennessee (8/30), notching three kills, six digs and a team-high five blocks... Earned her first career start in the home opener against the No. 19 Vols (9/1) and turned in two kills and two blocks... 

HIGH SCHOOL
2018 AVCA Under Armour All-American Second-Team honoree... Ranked as No. 1 volleyball players in the class of 2019 in the state of Nebraska by PrepDig.com... A four-year letter winner, she led her Wahoo High School team to back-to-back Class C-1 State Championships in 2017 and 2018... Selected to play in Nebraska's 2019 All-Star Game... AAU 17's Club Volleyball All-American... Earned NSAA Second-Team All-State accolades in 2017... Earned 2018 PrepDig.com NSAA All-Class All-Tournament Team honors in 2018... Registered the highest hitting percentage in the state of Nebraska in 2017 (.488) and in 2018 (.462)... Helped lead her Volleyball Club Nebraska team to a 10th place finish at the 2018 AAU Nationals and a fifth-place finish at the 2017 AAU Nationals, as well as the Heartland Cup Tournament championship and the Power League Championship... Also a four-year letter winner in basketball and one-year letter winner in track at WHS.

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