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  • MB
    Position
  • Graduate Student
    Class
  • Yaounde, Cameroon
    Hometown
  • 6'3
    Height
  • Lycée d'Etoug-Ebe
    High School
  • Missouri State West Plains
    Previous School
Manuela Bibinbe
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Manuela Bibinbe
MB
Position
Graduate Student
Class
Yaounde, Cameroon
Hometown

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Biography

• 2023 AVCA First Team All-Southwest Region
• 2023 All-Big 12 Second Team

2024 (Senior):

Traveled with the Bears and played in the Foreign Tour matches in Austria, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia in June 2024 ... Competed in 69 sets across 27 matches at middle blocker ... Started in 26 matches on the season …  Recorded 66 kills, 62 blocks and 42 digs ... Claimed season-high 10 kills on 23 swings against Arizona (9/25) ... Tied her career-high seven digs against No. 18 Minnesota (9/6) ... Contributed a career-high eight blocks against Hawai’i (9/21) ... Tied her career-high for the sixth time with two service aces against Cincinnati (10/17) … Led the team in aces three times on the season and in blocks on five occasions.

2023 (Junior):
Her first year with the Bears, her first as a DI athlete, starting at middle blocker … Played in all but one set of the season across 30 matches … Started in every match … Led the team in blocks 17 times … Led the team in aces on six occasions … Finished the season with 247 kills averaging 2.19 kills per set … Had a .368 hitting percentage for the year, tying for sixth in the Baylor record book with ’22 graduate Kara McGhee … Had nine matches with double-digit kills … Served up a pair of aces in three matches … Procured two aces against No. 17 Minnesota in the Big Ten/Big 12 Challenge (8/26) … Had a season-high seven-block match against No. 18 Rice, also her first 10-kill match (9/1) … In the upset of No. 19 Ohio State, she had a season-high hit percentage of .647 with 12 kills and one error, good for third in the BU record book for a five set match (9/15) … Had a then-season-high 14 kill performance against Kansas State (10/6) … Had two aces against Cincinnati on the road (10/13) … Served up three aces across the two matches with No. 5 Texas (10/26-27) … Upped her season-high to 16 kills against TCU (11/11) … Had 10 kills against James Madison in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (11/30) … Named Second Team All-Big 12 (11/28) … Named First Team AVCA All-Southwest Region (12/5).

MSUWP/High School:
She was the Region 16 Player of the Year and a First Team All-American in 2021 for Missouri State West Plains … Helped the Grizzlies to be Region 16 champions in both the Fall and Spring of 2021 with the Grizzlies finishing third in the Rankings for the Fall season … Played under coach Paula Wiedemann at MSUWP ... Played club with BVE under Junior Anomah in Cameroon ... Graduated high school from Lycee d'Etoug-Ebe.

Personal:
Full name is Ruth Manuela Marie Bibinbe ... Daughter of Ngo Yana Elisabeth and Elie Bibinbe ... Is one of six children in her family: Jeanne, Madeleine, Anne, Jean and Sabine ...  Majoring in accounting ... Originally met Coach McGuyre through one of his former players, who is also from Cameroon, who was holding a camp in Houston.