University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2024:

• Played in 20 matches and 78 sets
• Recorded 31 assists, 18 service aces, and 182 digs on the season.
• Picked up first career kill on Nov. 22 vs. New Hampshire
• Had a season high 15 digs and five assists against UC Davis in the season opener
• Had four aces against UAlbany on Oct. 6

2023: Starting libero in all 25 matches...America East Libero of the Year...America East All-Conference Second Team...America East All-Rookie Team...Three-time America East Rookie of the Week..Three-time America East Defensive Specialist of the Week...Led America East in digs per set (5.33) in Conference play...Tallied 28 digs in only four sets against Princeton...Had a career-best 10 assists against Howard the following day...Nine 20+ dig matches...Needed only three sets to collect 25 digs in the home sweep of Binghamton...Accumulated 21 digs in the Championship sweep of Binghamton

Background:

• Named the 99th best player in the Class of 2023 on PrepVolleyball.com's prestigious Top 150 player rankings (The first Top 100 recruit in program history)
• West Virginia Volleyball Gatorade Player of the Year (2021)
• 1st team All State (2019,2020,2021,2022)
• Journal Player of the Year (2019,2022)
• Max Preps Best Player in West Virginia (2022),
• 1st team All Eastern Panhandle (2019,2020,2021,2022),
• West Virginia State Tournament All Tournament Team (2019,2021,2022)
• 3x State Champion (2020,2021,2022)

Personal:

• Daughter of Jamie and Eric Howard
• Valedictorian of her senior class of 384 students. 
• Secretary of National Honors Society
• Varsity Club, Student Council, RHO Kappa, and an editor of the yearbook.
• Siblings are Breanna Howard (23) and Darrien Howard (11)
• Sister Breanna was a cheerleader at West Virginia
• Career ambition is to become an accountant