Haleigh Washington

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Haleigh Washington #15 MB 6’3″

Russ Rose Then (2017):

Russ Rose Now (2025):

2017 Stats Leaders

2017 Cumulative Team Stats

2017 Season (Senior) Highlights and Awards: 2017 Senior CLASS Award for Women’s Volleyball, chosen by a nationwide vote of Division I volleyball coaches, national volleyball media and fans, to the most outstanding senior student-athlete in Division I volleyball … AVCA First Team All American for the 3rd time in her career… Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year … 4-time All-Big Ten honoree … 3-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, earning 2nd-team honors in 2017 and 2015 and 3rd-team honors in 2016 … earned Academic All-Big Ten honors in her sophomore and junior seasons … Team Captain, along with Simone Lee and Clare Powers led the nation with a .492 hitting percentage … helped Penn State to a 33-1 record, a No. 1 overall ranking in the final polls of the 2017 season, and the top seed in the NCAA Tournament … earned 5 Big Ten Player of the Week honors throughout the season, which brought her career total to a program-high 10 — the second-most in Big Ten history.

Season Recap: Started all 35 matches and appeared in all 123 sets … averaged 1.52 blocks per set while putting down 3.06 kills per set on the season … her averages on the season were all career bests, including surpassing 3.00-kills per set for the first time in her career … earned Big Ten Player of the Week honor on 9/5, following a weekend where she finished with with a total of 22 kills on a clip of .435, adding 13 blocks, 4 digs, and an ace, and was named ‘Best Blocker’ of the Texas A&M Tournament … tallied 22 double-digit kill performances, including a career-best 21 in a four-set win over Minnesota (11/25) … had 22 matches with at least 5.0 blocks, including 10.0 in the Nittany Lion’s 5-set set win over Stanford (9/9), where she also put down 11 kills for a double-double … earned her 2nd Big Ten Player of the Week honor on Oct. 2, after the Nittany Lions swept Illinois and Northwestern … she hit .556 for the weekend, averaged 3.5 kills per set out of the middle, and added 1.5 blocks/set on the weekend … earned her 3d Big Ten Player of the Week honor on Oct. 9, after averaging 5.2 points per set out of the middle, and leading the team in kills (3.88), blocks (1.88), and points (5.2) and finishing with a .531 hitting percentage … earned a 4th Big Ten Player of the Week honor on Oct. 30, after averaging a team-best 4.64 points per set out of the middle over two matches, with 3.43 kills per set on a .548 hitting percentage, adding 2.14 blocks per set. She also scooped up four digs … earned her 5th and final Big Ten Player of the Week honor for the 2017 season following the final weekend of regular season, putting down 10 kills on a .450 clip, with 5 blocks on the evening at Wisconsin, and totaling a career-high 21 kills on a .514 hitting percentage against Minnesota, adding 7 blocks, averaging 4.94 points per set for the weekend.

NCAA Tournament: Averaged 2.95 kills/set and 1.53 blocks/set in Penn State’s 5 NCAA Tournament matches … posted a 10-block performance in the sweep of Michigan State in the Regional Final (12/9).

2016 Season (Junior)

2015 Season (Sophomore)

2014 Season (Freshman)

2017 Season Highs Date Opponent
Kills 21 11/25/2017 Minnesota
Assists 1 12/14/2017 Nebraska
Points 26 11/25/2017 Minnesota
Aces 3 09/16/2017 Ohio
Digs 6 09/15/2017 Yale
Total Blocks 10 12/09/2017 Michigan St.
Career Offensive Statistics
Season Team Sp Mp K K/s E Ta Pct. A A/s Sa Sa/s Se
2014-15 Penn St. 79 26 208 2.633 37 369 0.463 5 0.063 0 0.000 0
2015-16 Penn St. 115 34 302 2.626 58 552 0.442 4 0.035 26 0.226 54
2016-17 Penn St. 121 34 291 2.405 52 556 0.430 7 0.058 24 0.198 37
2017-18 Penn St. 123 35 370 3.008 46 659 0.492 7 0.057 22 0.179 23
Totals: 438 129 1171 2.674 193 2136 0.458 23 0.053 72 0.164 114
Career Defensive Statistics
Season Team Dig D/s Re Bs Ba Tb B/s Be Bhe Pts Pts/s
2014-15 Penn St. 23 0.291 0 17 79 96 1.215 7 1 264.5 3.348
2015-16 Penn St. 66 0.574 0 24 135 159 1.383 15 2 419.5 3.648
2016-17 Penn St. 72 0.595 0 20 120 140 1.157 11 1 395 3.264
2017-18 Penn St. 82 0.667 2 24 161 185 1.504 11 3 496.5 4.037
Totals: 243 0.555 2 85 495 580 1.324 44 7 1575.5 3.597
2017 Match Stats Attack Set Serve Defense Block
Date Opponent Score K E TA % AST E SA SE RE Dig BS BA BE TB BHE PTS
08/25/2017 vs UT Martin W 3 – 0 6 0 10 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 7.5
08/26/2017 at West Virginia W 3 – 0 7 1 11 0.545 0 1 0 3 0 3 1 4 0 5 1 10
08/26/2017 at Delaware W 3 – 0 10 0 12 0.833 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 11
09/01/2017 at Stanford W 3 – 1 10 0 16 0.625 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 6 0 7 0 14
09/02/2017 at Texas A&M W 3 – 2 12 2 24 0.417 0 2 1 2 0 1 1 5 0 6 0 16.5
09/08/2017 vs Colorado W 3 – 0 8 3 16 0.313 0 3 0 1 0 3 0 2 1 2 0 9
09/09/2017 at Stanford W 3 – 2 11 2 22 0.409 0 2 0 2 0 2 1 9 0 10 0 16.5
09/15/2017 vs Yale W 3 – 0 8 0 11 0.727 1 0 1 0 0 6 1 6 0 7 0 13
09/16/2017 vs Wake Forest W 3 – 0 8 0 9 0.889 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 7 2 7 0 13.5
09/16/2017 vs Ohio W 3 – 0 9 2 17 0.412 0 2 3 0 0 3 0 4 0 4 1 14
09/22/2017 vs Nebraska L 0 – 3 6 1 15 0.333 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 4 2 4 0 8
09/23/2017 vs Iowa W 3 – 1 12 3 25 0.36 0 3 0 1 0 4 1 5 0 6 0 15.5
09/29/2017 vs Illinois W 3 – 0 11 0 17 0.647 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 4 0 4 0 15
09/30/2017 vs Northwestern W 3 – 0 10 1 19 0.474 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 4 0 5 0 13
10/06/2017 at Ohio St. W 3 – 2 20 4 32 0.5 0 4 0 1 0 2 1 7 0 8 0 24.5
10/07/2017 at Maryland W 3 – 0 11 1 17 0.588 0 1 2 0 0 3 1 6 0 7 0 17
10/13/2017 vs Michigan St. W 3 – 1 14 1 30 0.433 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 4 1 4 0 16
10/14/2017 vs Michigan W 3 – 0 12 0 21 0.571 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 2 0 14
10/20/2017 at Purdue W 3 – 1 10 1 20 0.45 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 6 0 6 0 15
10/21/2017 at Indiana W 3 – 0 13 1 15 0.8 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 14.5
10/25/2017 vs Wisconsin W 3 – 1 14 1 29 0.448 0 1 0 0 0 4 1 7 0 8 0 18.5
10/28/2017 at Illinois W 3 – 0 10 0 13 0.769 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 6 0 7 0 14
11/01/2017 at Michigan St. W 3 – 1 18 2 36 0.444 1 2 1 1 1 2 0 3 1 3 1 20.5
11/04/2017 vs Rutgers W 3 – 0 12 1 15 0.733 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 3 0 5 0 16.5
11/08/2017 at Iowa W 3 – 0 4 1 10 0.3 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 5 0 7.5
11/11/2017 vs Maryland W 3 – 0 4 2 8 0.25 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 7 0 8
11/15/2017 vs Indiana W 3 – 0 10 0 15 0.667 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 5 0 13
11/18/2017 at Rutgers W 3 – 0 3 0 4 0.75 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 5 0 6
11/24/2017 at Wisconsin W 3 – 1 10 1 20 0.45 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 5 1 5 0 13.5
11/25/2017 at Minnesota W 3 – 1 21 2 37 0.514 1 2 1 1 0 5 1 6 0 7 0 26
12/01/2017 vs Howard W 3 – 1 13 3 20 0.5 0 3 1 1 0 2 1 4 1 5 0 17
12/02/2017 vs Pittsburgh W 3 – 1 16 2 29 0.483 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 7 1 7 0 19.5
12/08/2017 vs Missouri W 3 – 0 9 2 14 0.5 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 10.5
12/09/2017 vs Michigan St. W 3 – 0 5 2 17 0.176 0 2 1 0 1 2 3 7 0 10 0 12.5
12/14/2017 vs Nebraska L 2 – 3 13 4 33 0.273 1 4 0 3 0 3 0 6 0 6 0 16
Totals: 370 46 659 0.492 7 46 22 23 2 82 24 161 11 185 3 496.5
Before Penn State: Holds a Colorado state record after putting down 48 kills in a match with her Doherty High School team … earned 2012 Colorado Volleyball Player of the Year honors as well as team MVP accolades in 2012 and 2013 as the Spartan’s team captain for 2 consecutive seasons … guided Doherty to a state championship title in 2012 … 2-time Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year from 2012-13 … earned Class 5A First Team All-Conference and First Team All-State honors from 2010-13 … also earned Class 5A MVP honors … 2013-14 Under Armour First Team All-American … 2013 Mizuno First Team All-American … 2013 Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year.

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