Lainy Pierce

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Lainy Pierce #8 DS/Libero

Russ Rose Then (2017): “Lainy is entering her senior year and has always been a strong server for us. There are days where she competes like a real veteran, and that’s what we’ll need from her during this season. She’ll need to be a tough server and assist others in back row play and help out with serve reception. She had a terrific freshman year and has been chasing that performance since then.”

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.”

2017 Stats Leaders

2017 Cumulative Team Stats

2017 Season (Senior) Highlights and Awards: Academic All-Big Ten … Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honoree … Team Captain, along with Haleigh Washington and Simone Lee.

Season Recap: Played in 33 of 35 matches, and 68 of 123 sets … posted a season-high 2 service aces at Iowa (11/8) … totaled a season-high 5 digs at Michigan State (11/1).

NCAA Tournament: Played in all 5 of Penn State’s NCAA Tournament matches, registering an ace in the Regional Final match vs. Michigan State (12/9).

2016 Season (Junior)

2015 Season (Sophomore)

2014 Season (Freshman)

2017 Season Highs Date Opponent
Kills 0 12/14/2017 Nebraska
Assists 1 11/24/2017 Wisconsin
Points 2 11/08/2017 Iowa
Aces 2 11/08/2017 Iowa
Digs 5 11/01/2017 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. 61 30 0 0.000 0 1 0.000 4 0.066 11 0.180 8
2015-16 Penn St. 51 22 0 0.000 0 2 0.000 0 0 4 0.078 5
2016-17 Penn St. 70 31 1 0.014 0 1 1.000 7 0.1 4 0.057 7
2017-18 Penn St. 68 33 0 0.000 0 1 0.000 5 0.074 6 0.088 2
Totals: 250 116 1 0.004 0 5 0.200 16 0.064 25 0.100 22
Career Defensive Statistics
Season Team Dig D/s Re Bs Ba Tb B/s Be Bhe Pts Pts/s
2014-15 Penn St. 19 0.311 0 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 11 0.180
2015-16 Penn St. 19 0.373 1 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 4 0.078
2016-17 Penn St. 44 0.629 6 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 5 0.071
2017-18 Penn St. 26 0.382 1 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 6 0.088
Totals: 108 0.432 8 0 0 0 0.000 0 0 26 0.104
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
08/26/2017 at West Virginia W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
08/26/2017 at Delaware W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/01/2017 at Stanford W 3 – 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/02/2017 at Texas A&M W 3 – 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/08/2017 vs Colorado W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/09/2017 at Stanford W 3 – 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/15/2017 vs Yale W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/16/2017 vs Wake Forest W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/16/2017 vs Ohio W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
09/23/2017 vs Iowa W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/29/2017 vs Illinois W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/30/2017 vs Northwestern W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/06/2017 at Ohio St. W 3 – 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/07/2017 at Maryland W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/13/2017 vs Michigan St. W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/14/2017 vs Michigan W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/20/2017 at Purdue W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/21/2017 at Indiana W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/25/2017 vs Wisconsin W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/01/2017 at Michigan St. W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1
11/04/2017 vs Rutgers W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/08/2017 at Iowa W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
11/11/2017 vs Maryland W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/15/2017 vs Indiana W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/18/2017 at Rutgers W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/24/2017 at Wisconsin W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/25/2017 at Minnesota W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12/01/2017 vs Howard W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12/02/2017 vs Pittsburgh W 3 – 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
12/08/2017 vs Missouri W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
12/09/2017 vs Michigan St. W 3 – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
12/14/2017 vs Nebraska L 2 – 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals: 0 0 1 0 5 0 6 2 1 26 0

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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