• 2024 MVP, Baylor Classic
• Big 12 Rookie of the Week (11/28/23)
2024 (Sophomore):
Traveled with the Bears and played in the Foreign Tour matches in Austria, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia in June 2024 ... Competed in 109 sets across 30 matches as outside hitter ... Started in 29 matches for the Bears … Recorded 261 kills, 227 digs and 33 total blocks ... Named MVP of Baylor Classic after raking in a field-high 30 kills at a .460 hitting percentage, having no errors in two of the three matches (8/30-9/1) ... Claimed a career-high 16 kills against conference foe No. 18 TCU (10/25) ... Recorded 15 digs against Iowa State, a career high (10/30) ... Claimed 14 double-digit kill matches throughout the season, including eight double-digit dig matches, resulting in four double-doubles … Led her team in kills three times and in aces on eight occasions … Served up three aces on three different occasions on the season.
2023 (Freshman):
Competed in 28 sets over 14 matches … Collected 42 kills at 1.50 kills per set … Went on a tear toward the end of the season … Upped her season high in kills three matches in a row starting with Kansas (11/15) getting seven kills … Against West Virginia she had nine kills with a .571 hitting percentage (11/18) … In the upset of No. 22 Houston, she had 12 kills with a .458 hitting percentage, her first double-digit kill day (11/22) … Earned Big 12 Rookie of the Week for her efforts against the Coogs on 11/28 … Started in the first round NCAA match with JMU, recording five kills (11/30) … Played all three sets against No. 8 Kentucky in the second round of the tournament, getting a pair of kills (12/1).
High School:
The No. 18 recruit in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com … Played club for Revolution Volleyball Academy under coach Carl Defriez … Played for coach Valerie Mckenzie at Horizon HS ... Amassed more than 1,000 kills, 180 aces, 800 digs and 160 blocks in her prep career … In 2019, she was named the Northeast Valley Region Player of the Year, Northeast Valley All-Region First Team, PVUSD All-District Team, Horizon HS MVP, AIA 5A Second Team All-Conference, Sports360AZ Honorable Mention All-Academic Team, PrepVolleyball.com Frosh 59 List and she was a finalist for the PrepVolleyball.com Freshman of the Year … In 2020, she was the PVUSD Player of the Year, Sports360AZ Honorable Mention All-Academic Team, Northeast Valley All-Region First Team, HHS Coaches Award and AVCA Phenom … In 2021, she was the 5A Northeast Valley Region Player of the Year, Northeast Valley All-Region First Team, PVUSD All-District Team, Nike Tournament of Champions All-Tournament Team, AIA 5A Conference Player of the Year, AIA 5A First Team All-Conference, Sports360AZ Honorable Mention All-Academic Team, AZCentral Sports Award Athlete of the Week, Nominee for AZCentral Sports Award Volleyball Athlete of the Year, AVCA Phenom and GJNC MVP for the National Division … In her senior year, she was a member of the PrepVolleyball.com Nike Tournament of Champions All-Tournament Team, VBallRecruiter Nike Tournament of Champions Show Stopper and a member of the Westwood Tournament of Champions All-Tournament Team … She and her team were the Regional Champions and AIA 5A State Champions, also named a 2022 AVCA High School All-Region selection and candidate for the VBallRecruiter.com Senior Player of the Year Award ... Ranked No. 16 on PrepVolleyball.com's Top 150 Player Rankings for the Class of 2023 ... Named All-Tournament Team for U18 USA VB Nationals ... Earned 2023 18s Club All-American Second Team ... Invited to the USA Volleyball National Team Development Program in spring of 2023, her second time earning that opportunity ... Ranked No. 14 in PrepVolleyball.com's Final 2023 Top 150 recruits ... Served as an athletic training assistant in her free time in high school.
Personal:
Daughter to Patrick and Tammy Murphy ... Has one younger sibling, Deklin ... Cousins McKenna and Miranda Wucherer play volleyball at the University of Minnesota ... Studying Nutrition Sciences.
