2025 UMBC Volleyball Roster
Biography
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
Statistics
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Historical Player Information
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2023Freshman
Defensive Specialist/Libero
5'7"
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2024Sophomore
Defensive Specialist/Libero
5'7"
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2025Junior
Defensive Specialist/Libero
5'7"