University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Honors & Accolades

• 2023 America East Libero of the Year
• 2023 America East All-Conference Second Team
• 2023 America East All-Rookie Team
• Four-time America East Defensive Specialist of the Week (10/3/23, 10/24/23, 11/14/23, 9/3/25)
• Three-time America East Rookie of the Week (10/17/23, 10/24/23, 11/7/23)

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
• 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)
• 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 (25) and Darrien Howard (13)
• Sister Breanna was a cheerleader at West Virginia
• Career ambition is to become an accountant