Lainy Pierce – DigNittanyVolleyball.com

Lainy Pierce #8 DS/Libero 5’7″

Russ Rose Then (2016): “Lainy had a really impactful freshman year and did not really have the same impact in her sophomore year. I think Lainy has picked up on what she has to do. She knows she has to be able to serve and that has always been her strength. Now she needs to be ableto pass and defend at the same level. As a daughter of a coach, I am confident that she will put in the time.”

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.”

2016 Stats Leaders

2016 Cumulative Team Stats

2016 Season (Junior) Highlights and Awards: Academic All-Big Ten Honoree.

Season Recap: played in 31 of 34 matches and 70 of 121 sets during the 2016 season …logged 44 digs, 4 service aces and a kill … recorded 4 digs at Colorado (9/3) … registered 2 service aces vs. Hofstra (9/10) along with 4 digs … logged a career-high 6 digs against Syracuse (9/10) … notched 3 digs vs. No. 18 Michigan State (9/30) … logged two digs, 1 kill and 1 service ace against No. 22 Michigan (10/1) … recorded 7 digs vs. Northwestern (11/25).

NCAA Tournament: Scored a service ace against Nebraska (12/9) in the third round of the NCAA tournament.

2017 Season (Senior)

2015 Season (Sophomore)

2014 Season (Freshman)

2016 Season Highs		Date	Opponent
Kills	1	10/01/2016	Michigan
Assists	2	09/09/2016	Siena
Points	2	10/01/2016	Michigan
Aces	2	09/10/2016	Hofstra
Digs	7	11/25/2016	Northwestern

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

2016 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
08/26/2016	vs West Virginia	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
08/27/2016	vs North Carolina	L 2 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
08/27/2016	vs Ga. Southern	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/03/2016	at Colorado	L 2 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/04/2016	at Stanford	L 0 – 3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/09/2016	vs Siena	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/10/2016	at Syracuse	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/10/2016	vs Hofstra	W 3 – 1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	2
09/16/2016	vs Rhode Island	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/17/2016	vs Howard	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/17/2016	vs Clemson	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/21/2016	at Rutgers	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/25/2016	at Northwestern	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
09/30/2016	vs Michigan St.	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/01/2016	vs Michigan	W 3 – 0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
10/05/2016	vs Minnesota	W 3 – 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/14/2016	at Purdue	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/15/2016	at Indiana	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/19/2016	vs Ohio St.	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/22/2016	at Michigan	L 2 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/28/2016	at Wisconsin	L 1 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10/29/2016	at Minnesota	L 0 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/04/2016	vs Nebraska	L 2 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/11/2016	at Maryland	W 3 – 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/12/2016	at Ohio St.	L 2 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/16/2016	at Nebraska	L 0 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/25/2016	vs Northwestern	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
11/26/2016	vs Illinois	W 3 – 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
12/02/2016	vs LIU	W 3 – 0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
12/03/2016	vs Pittsburgh	W 3 – 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12/09/2016	at Nebraska	L 2 – 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Totals:			1	0	1	1	7	0	4	7	6	44	0	0	0	0	0	5

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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