2007 Volleyball Roster
Roster
Alyssa Groves
- Position:
- Outside Hitter
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Elgin, Ill.
- High School:
- St. Edward
2006: Led the team with 27 aces and a 0.26 aces-per-game average...tied for fourth with 362 digs...fifth on the team with 280 points and a 2.72 points-per-game average...fifth on the team with a 2.36 kills-per-game average and a 3.51 digs-per-game average, one of five Racers to average better than 3.5 dpg...had 10 double-doubles...had the team’s best single-match attack percentage with 30 to 34 attacks with a .400 day against Eastern Illinois (15 kills, 30 attacks)...had 22 attacks without an error against Chicago State (12 kills)...had 10 or more digs 21 times and 15 or more digs 12 times...had a season-high 15 kills at Austin Peay State and again against EIU...had a season-high three aces against DePaul and against Tennessee-Martin...had a season-high 52 attacks against Southeast Missouri State in the O’Reilly OVC Championship Tournament...had a season-high 16 points four times...had a season-high 21 digs against Appalachian State and at Kent State...had 10 or more points 14 times...played in all 27 matches with 26 starts, taking part in 103 of MSU’s 105 games.
2005: Played in all 84 games in 23 matches for the Racers...second on the team with 20 aces...third on the team with a 0.24 aces-per-game average...third on the team with 251 digs and a 2.99 digs-per-game average...fourth on the team with a .147 attack percentage...had the team season-high for attack percentage for 30-34 attacks (.424 vs. Morehead State, 18 kills, four errors, 33 attacks)...had a season-high 19 kills, 54 attacks and 24 digs at Austin Peay State...rejected a season-high three blocks at Morehead State...served up a season-high two aces four times during the season...had 13 matches with double-digit digs.
BEFORE MSU: Named all-tournament at the 2005 Junior Olympics American Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah...played four seasons at St. Edward High under coaches Jamie Walton (2004) and Marv Leavitt (2001-03)...helped the Green Wave to a combined 122-40 record (753) in her four seasons...in 2004, helped SEHS to a fourth-place finish in state with regional, sectional and super-sectional championships (34-9)...earned all-state third team, all-area first team and all-conference honors...named team MVP and honorary captain...finished 2004 with 305 kills, 290 digs and 39 aces, averaging 7 kills per game...in 2003, helped the Green Wave to a regional title and a sectional runner-up spot (29-11)...selected to all-state honorable mention, all-area first team and all-conference honors with 189 kills, 268 digs and 50 aces...in 2002, helped SEHS to regional and sectional titles (28-11)...earned all-area second team and all-conference honors with 185 kills, 292 digs and 50 aces...in 2001, helped the Green Wave to regional and sectional titles (31-9)...earned all-area honorable mention honors with 110 kills...played for Club Fusion for seven years, participating in nationals every year...the 17 Black team that she played on finished ninth in the country in the Open division last season...graduated from St. Edward with a grade-point average of 3.8...a member of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) and Big Brothers/Big Sisters...had an opportunity to cruise the Mediterranean Sea in her senior year in high school (2005).
