Russ Rose Then (2019): “Tori is a fifth-year senior that has had some ups and some downs. She needs to learn from the experiences that she has had and make her last year her best year. The challenge is that we may ask her to play a variety of positions. We need her to be confident with those transitions and be able to blend in with the team as she has good strength, quickness and competes hard. I don’t see any reason why she won’t be able to be successful.”
Russ Rose Now (2026): “Tori was one of the few players we recruited that played at Happy Volley Tournament on Memorial Day weekend. She was a player from Canada, and her father was a former professional football player in Canada, so she came from tough stock and she competed hard. The year I asked her to change position from middle to outside hitter, she said whatever I needed her to do to help the team, she would do. Some kids, you like them at the beginning, and then when they’re so accommodating to do the best for the team and being an adult, you have an even greater affection for them. Tori was great. She married one of our practice players, Joey Farrell, who also spent time with the men’s team.”
2019 Season (Redshirt Senior) Highlights and Awards: Stanford Regional All-Tournament Team … Academic All-Big Ten.
Season Recap: Played in all 33 of the team’s matches (19 starts) and 115 of 117 sets , playing mostly at outside hitter … averaged 2.42 kills/set (4th on the team) on .274 hitting, and 2.88 points/set (4th on the team) … totaled 67 blocks, 45 digs, and 11 service aces … notched 2 solo blocks in two matches, with the last against Illinois (10/23) and against
NCAA Tournament: Played in all 12 sets of Penn State’s 4 NCAA Tournament matches … Posted 12 kills on .385 hitting in Penn States 3-1 Second Round win vs. Towson (12/7) … totaled 15 kills on .519 hitting in Penn State’s 3-2 Regional Semifinal win over Cincinnati (12/13) … notched 13 kills on .667 hitting in the Regional Finals loss to Stanford.
2017 Season (Redshirt Sophomore)
2016 Season (Redshirt Freshman)
| 2019 Offensive Stats | SP | MP | MS | Pts. | Pts/S | Kills | Kills/S | E | TA | Pct. | A | A/S | SA | SA/S | SE | |
| Tori Gorrell | 115 | 33 | 19 | 331.0 | 2.88 | 278 | 2.42 | 99 | 653 | .274 | 5 | 0.04 | 11 | 0.10 | 26 |
| 2019 Defensive Stats | SP | MP | MS | Digs | Digs/S | RE | RE/S | BS | BA | Blk | Blk/Set | BE | BHE | |||
| 115 | 33 | 19 | 45 | 0.39 | 3 | 0.03 | 11 | 62 | 73 | 0.63 | 10 | 1 |
Before Penn State: Attended Abbey Park High School … helped Abbey Park win the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Association AAA volleyball championship … led the team to an undefeated season as well as the Halton Tier I and Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference AAA titles … played club volleyball with Toronto’s Leaside, where she earned Ontario Volleyball Association (OVA) U17 All-Star honors in 2013-14 and Preseason Humber Tournament All-Star honors in 2014.