2015: Played in 22 matches and 74 sets in 2015... Had 164 kills, 29 digs, and 57 total blocks during her senior campaign... Had six double digit kill performances, including a season best 20 kills against William & Mary on Sept. 19... Had a nine block match against Albany on Oct. 9, while also adding 11 kills... Finishes her career with 200 assisted blocks and 229 total blocks, good for seventh and tenth on the all-time lists.
2014: Played in every match for the Retrievers, starting in 21 of those 25 matches... Started off the season with 39 kills at the Hawks Hullabaloo Tournament, earning Tournament MVP in the process... Laid down a season high 17 kills in a five set win at Albany on October 17, hitting .371 in the match... Registered 187 kills, good for third most on the team, while chipping in a team high 62 blocks.
2013: Played in all but three matches for the Retrievers as a junior, seeing the court in 109 sets… Sent down 269 kills in 2013, the fourth-most on the team… Scooped up a career-high 98 digs while turning away a career-best 63 total blocks… Started the season with a 15-kill effort against SEC opponent Ole Miss at the season-opening GW/Nike Invitational on Aug. 30… Sent down ten winners the next day as UMBC knocked off in-state rival Maryland for the first time in program history… Helped UMBC defeat Liberty in four sets with 12 kills and two block assists at the Gold and Blue Players Challenge at West Virginia on Sept. 21… Set a season-high with 17 winners as UMBC opened America East play on Sept. 27 with a four-set victory over Stony Brook at the RAC Arena… Registered ten kills as UMBC earned its first-ever win over Albany at the Great Danes’ University Gymnasium on Oct. 11.
2012: Selected to the America East All-Conference Second Team while also garnering a spot on the All-Rookie squad… Earned a spot on the America East Championships All-Tournament Team after leading the Retrievers with 16 kills against Binghamton in the semifinals… Named America East Player and Rookie of the Week on Sept. 17 after totaling 52 kills in four matches, including 40 during three contests at the Pirate Invitational… Named the conference’s top rookie again on Oct. 1… Was the only Retriever to record 20 or more kills in a match and did so three times… Led the team and finished third in the conference with a .252 hitting efficiency… Totaled 296 kills, averaging 3.15 per set, the sixth-best average in the league… Posted a career-high 28 kills against New Hampshire on Sept. 28… Registered 21 kills on 34 swings in a four-set match against St. John’s at the season-opening Battle at the Bay Tournament… One of four Retrievers to record a nine-block contest, turning away nine balls in a five-set win at St. Francis (Pa.) on Sept. 11… Recognized on the America East Honor Roll.
Background: Named the 2011 PIAA Player of the Year while leading Susquehannock to the Division II State Championship... Also led the Warriors to the PIAA Distrcit III Championship... Named to the PIAA All-State Team twice in her four-year career.
Personal: Daughter of Horace and Marcia Walker... Has four siblings, two older and two younger... Majoring in Pre-Physical Therapy with the hopes of becoming an athletic trainer... Born Aug. 10, 1994.
CAREER STATISTICS
Year | SP | MP | MS | K | E | TA | Pct. | A | SA | SE | RE | Dig | BS | BA | Total |
2012 | 94 | 25 | 20 | 296 | 104 | 761 | .252 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 37 | 5 | 42 | 47 |
2013 | 109 | 28 | 26 | 269 | 134 | 844 | .160 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 1 | 98 | 10 | 53 | 63 |
2014 | 89 | 25 | 21 | 187 | 59 | 461 | .278 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 52 | 62 |
2015 | 74 | 23 | 15 | 164 | 68 | 393 | .244 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 4 | 53 | 57 |
Career | 366 | 101 | 82 | 916 | 365 | 2459 | .224 | 9 | 9 | 35 | 3 | 179 | 29 | 200 | 229 |