Lainy Pierce – DigNittanyVolleyball.com

Lainy Pierce #8 DS/Libero 5’7″

Russ Rose Then (2015): “Lainy continues to do what I thought she was good at last year. She has a very good serve and she’s not afraid to come into the game and take a good swing a the ball. Her defense continues to improve and we need her to play well.”

Russ Rose Now (2026): “Lainy came from a family of Penn State athletes, with her dad being a member of the men’s volleyball team, her mom being a member of the track and field team, her older sister, Kendall, being on the team when Lainy joined us in 2014, and her younger brother coming to Penn State and joining the men’s team in 2016. Lainy walked on here, even though she had scholarship offers to go elsewhere, because she wanted to be at Penn State and she wanted to be with her sister. She developed into one of our top servers and played a great role for us. She was another one of our players who was a coach’s daughter, so not surprisingly, she possessed a very good volleyball IQ and was knowledgeable of the position she was playing. She had terrific skills and was never afraid to go in and serve tough and play hard.”

2015 Stats Leaders

2015 Cumulative Team Stats

2015 Season (Sophomore) Season Recap: Saw action in 22 of 34 matches, playing in 51 of 115 sets … totaled 19 digs and 3 aces … Made her 2015 debut against Auburn (9/18), logging 1 dig … had 1 dig against South Florida (9/19) … had 1 dig against No. 16 Wisconsin (9/23) … posted 2 digs against No. 4 Nebraska (10/2) … posted a pair of digs at Michigan State (10/24) … logged 1 ace and 2 digs at No. 11 Ohio State (10/28) … recorded a season-high 3 digs against No. 5 Nebraska (11/28).

NCAA Tournament: Tallied 3 digs in the NCAA 1st round match against Howard (12/4) … had 1 dig in the NCAA 2nd round match against Dayton (12/5) … totaled 1 ace and 1 dig in the NCAA Regional Semifinals against Hawaii (12/11).

2017 Season (Senior)

2016 Season (Junior)

2014 Season (Freshman)

2015 Season Highs		Date	Opponent
Kills	0	12/11/2015	Hawaii
Points	1	12/11/2015	Hawaii
Aces	1	12/11/2015	Hawaii
Digs	3	12/04/2015	Howard

Career Offensive Statistics

Season	Team	Sp	Mp	K	K/s	Ta	Pct.	A	A/s	Sa	Sa/s	Se
2014-15	Penn St.	61	30	0	0.000	1	0.000	4	0.066	11	0.180	8
2015-16	Penn St.	51	22	0	0.000	2	0.000	0	0	4	0.078	5
2016-17	Penn St.	70	31	1	0.014	1	1.000	7	0.1	4	0.057	7
2017-18	Penn St.	68	33	0	0.000	1	0.000	5	0.074	6	0.088	2
Totals:		250	116	1	0.004	5	0.200	16	0.064	25	0.100	22

Career Defensive Statistics

Season	Team	Dig	D/s	Re	Pts	Pts/s
2014-15	Penn St.	19	0.311	0	11	0.180
2015-16	Penn St.	19	0.373	1	4	0.078
2016-17	Penn St.	44	0.629	6	5	0.071
2017-18	Penn St.	26	0.382	1	6	0.088
Totals:		108	0.432	8	26	0.104

2015 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
09/18/2015	at Auburn	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
09/19/2015	vs St. John’s (NY)	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/19/2015	at South Fla.	W 3 – 0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/23/2015	vs Wisconsin	W 3 – 0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/26/2015	vs Minnesota	W 3 – 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/02/2015	vs Nebraska	L 2 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/16/2015	vs Indiana	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/21/2015	at Michigan	W 3 – 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/24/2015	at Michigan St.	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/28/2015	at Ohio St.	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
10/30/2015	vs Ohio St.	W 3 – 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/05/2015	at Maryland	W 3 – 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/06/2015	at Rutgers	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/11/2015	at Iowa	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/14/2015	at Minnesota	L 0 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/18/2015	vs Michigan	L 1 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
11/21/2015	vs Maryland	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/25/2015	vs Northwestern	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/28/2015	at Nebraska	L 0 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
12/04/2015	vs Howard	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
12/05/2015	vs Dayton	W 3 – 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
12/11/2015	vs Hawaii	L 0 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Totals:			0	0	2	0	0	0	4	5	1	19	0	0	0	0	0	4

Before Penn State: Four-year letterwinner at Eden Junior-Senior … Helped her high school squad to its fifth state championship as the team captain, picking up MVP honors in 2013 … 2012 New York Volleyball Gatorade Player of the Year finalist … Earned First-Team All ECIC and WYN honors in 2012 and 2013 … Also helped guide her club team, Niagara Frontier, to WEVA Regional Championships from 2008- 2013.

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