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2024 UMBC Volleyball Roster

Ellie Lawton
Kushal Kommula
Ellie Lawton
Ellie Lawton
Ellie Lawton
Dave Wegiel
Gail Burton/UMBC Athletics
Layla French
Gail Burton/UMBC Athletics

5 Mia Bilusic

  • Position Outside Hitter
  • Height 6-2
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Prirodoslovna skola Vladimira Preloga
  • Hometown Zagreb, Croatia

Biography

2024:

  • America East First Team All-Conference
  • America East Player of the Week (10/8/24)
  • Appeared in 23 matches and 88 sets
  • Recorded 322 kills, 17 assists, 27 service aces, 207 digs, and 39 blocks
  • Had a season high 25 kills and three aces at Howard on Oct. 23
  • Had a season high 26 digs against Bryant on Nov. 10 
  • Also recorded a season high six blocks against UC Davis on Aug. 30


2023: First Team All-America East for the third straight season...America East All-Championship Team...Tied for the team lead in kills with 288 with an average of 3.24 kills per set and 2.58 digs per set…  Two-time AE Player of the Week...Recorded double-digit kills in 19 of 25 matches...Had 10 double-doubles...Needed only four sets to pick-up a career-best 19 digs against Virginia… Picked up 18 kills and 12 digs in the four set win at Binghamton on 11/5...Had 15 kills on .414 hitting in a sweep of NJIT on 11/10...Tallied 13 kills in the America East Championship

2022: First Team All-America East for the second straight season...became the second retriever to be named to the AVCA All-Region Team...Led the team and America East with 399 kills with an average of 3.91 kills per set and 44 service aces with an average of .43 service aces per set… Two-time AE Player of the Week…Had an impressive stretch in the middle of the season with 23 kills against Binghamton and 18 kills with one error against NJIT… Tied for the third all-time aces in a single match, recording six twice against American and Niagara


2021: America East Rookie of the Year, First Team All-Conference and All-Rookie Team Selection....Led the America East with 408 kills overall and averaged an America East-best 4.51 kills per set in conference play...Had an incredible performance in the America East Semifinal against Stony Brook, finishing with 29 kills (second most in a single match in UMBC 25-point rally score history) and a career-best 16 digs...Added 23 digs and 11 digs in America East Championship...Recorded seven of the top ten single game kill performance in UMBC 25-point rally score history, with matches with 18, 20, 22, 23 (3x) and 29 kills...Four-time AE Rookie of the Week and two-time AE Player of the Week...Recorded 11 double-doubles, with nine in conference play (including playoffs)...Led America East with 5.06 points per set in conference play.

National Team: Participated in 2018 U17 European Championship and 2020 U19 European Championship

High School/Club: 2018 National Championship MVP-kadetic category...2018 Regional Championship MVP- junior category...2020 Zagreb Trophy...MVP-2019 Zagreb Trophy Best Attacker.

Personal: Daughter of Amalija and Matija Bilusic...Has one sibling Vito (13)...Majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...Career ambition is to become a research scientist or volleyball player.. Father was professional handball player in Europe, while her mother ran Track. Lists cheese with olive oil and proscuitto as her favorite food and The Alchemist as her favortie book. 

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Historical Player Information

  • 5

    2021Freshman

    OH
    6'2"
    5
  • 5

    2022Sophomore

    Outside Hitter
    6'2"
    5
  • 5

    2023Junior

    Outside Hitter
    6'2"
    5
  • 5

    2024Senior

    Outside Hitter
    6'2"
    5
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