2015 Women's Volleyball Roster
Roster
Sam Bedard
- Position:
- Setter
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Breese, Ill.
- High School:
- Mater Dei Catholic HS
2014: First Team All-OVC selection … 2014 OVC Tournament Most Valuable Player … fourth player in MSU history to be named OVC Tournament MVP … led the league with 1,164 assists and 11.09 assists per set … her 1,164 assists are the ninth-most in a single season in program history … led the team and was 10th in the league with 27 aces … second on the team with 327 digs … had 15 double-doubles on the year … recorded a career-high 58 assists in a 3-1 win over EKU (10/4)
2013: Played in all 30 matches with 29 starts … Named OVC Setter of the Week for the week of Sept. 9 … Led the team with 9.78 assists per set and 1,115 total assists, the most by a Racer since 2010 … Was fifth in the OVC in assists per set … Was one of only two players in the OVC to record a triple-double, doing so twice against Jacksonville St. (Sept. 28) and UT Martin (Nov. 9) … Tallied 19 double-doubles … Finished second on the team and seventh in the OVC in hitting percentage (.276) … Set career-highs in assists, kills (138), service aces (17), digs (322) and blocks (27) … Recorded over 50 assists three times, including a career-high 65 against Davidson, the most by a Racer since 2010.
2012: Made five starts and appeared in 54 sets … Recorded four double-doubles … Set season-bests with 40 assists and 16 digs on Oct. 12 against SIU Edwardsville … Finished the season number two with 178 assists, while also recording 123 digs and 16 kills.
BEFORE MSU: A four-year member of the varsity squad at Mater Dei HS ... Helped the team to four straight state finals where they finished third in 2008, second in 2009 and won back-to-back Illinois state titles in 2010 and 2011 ... Was a four-time All-Metro Area selection ... Earned St. Louis Post-Dispatch Player of Week and Illinois High School All-Star team honors in 2011 ... Finished her career with the Knights with 1,897 assists and 610 digs ... Helped Mater Dei go 162-19 over her four years for a .895 win percentage.
PERSONAL: Born Samantha Jane Bedard, Aug.. 29, 1994 in Breese, Ill. ... Daughter of Don and Beth Bedard ... Has four sisters;Amber (31), Alyssa (30), Ashley (27) and Katie (25) and one brother Collin (29) ... Majoring in recreation and leisure ... Growing up, one of her neighbor's was catcher Josh Thole of the Toronto Blue Jays.
| YEAR | SP | MP | K | K/Set | E | TA | PCT | A | A/Set | SA | RE | Digs | D/Set | BS | BA | TB | B/Set |
| 2012 | 54 | 17 | 16 | 0.30 | 11 | 53 | .094 | 178 | 3.30 | 5 | 1 | 123 | 1.54 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 114 | 30 | 138 | 1.21 | 36 | 370 | .276 | 1115 | 9.78 | 17 | 2 | 322 | 2.82 | 5 | 22 | 27 | 0.24 |
| 2014 | 105 | 32 | 86 | 0.82 | 39 | 214 | .220 | 1164 | 11.09 | 27 | 0 | 327 | 3.11 | 3 | 16 | 19 | 0.18 |
| Totals | 273 | 79 | 240 | 0.88 | 86 | 637 | .242 | 2,458 | 9.00 | 49 | 3 | 772 | 2.83 | 8 | 44 | 52 | 0.19 |
