Seattle Pacific University Athletics

SPU: Four-year letterwinner. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Senior (2018): Played in all 27 matches and all 104 games. ... Came up with a team-leading 491 digs, her single-season best. ... Moved all the way up to No. 2 on SPU's career digs list, finishing with 1,653. ... Her career average of 4.09 digs per game put her No. 4 on the all-time SPU list. ... Had a career-high 37 digs in her final match, an epic five-gamer against Western Washington in Brougham Pavilion. ... Recorded her 200th career assist on Oct. 4 at home against Alaska Fairbanks. ... Delivered a single-season best 27 service aces, giving her 76 for her career.

Junior (2017): Played in 25 of the 28 matches with two starts, totaling 101 games. ... Led SPU with 468 digs, an average of 4.63 per game that ranked No. 8 in the GNAC. ... Came up with double-digit digs in 22 of the 25 matches. One of those was at home against Western Washington on Nov. 9 when she had a career-high 35. ... It was the second time during the season that Ganete set a career-high in that category. Her best coming into the season was 30; topped that with 31 at Alaska Anchorage on Sept. 23. ... Recorded her 1,000th career dig on Oct. 12 at Simon Fraser. ... Served 15 aces during the season, delivering 3 against Fresno Pacific on Sept. 8 and Montana State Billings on Oct. 28.

Sophomore (2016): Played in all 28 matches, and all 106 games. ... Set a career-high for digs five times: 18 in the season-opening match at Concordia Irvine on Sept. 2, then the next day against UC San Diego, both at the Concordia Irvine Labor Day Classic. Had 28 one week later against Azusa Pacific in the D2 West Region Showcase, 29 on Oct. 5 at home against Montana State Billings, and 30 on Oct. 15 at home vs. Western Washington. ... Had double-digit digs in 24 of the 28 matches, topping 20 in exactly half of those. ... Was credited with her first college kill on Sept. 24 at home against Concordia-Portland. ... Had team-leading 511 digs for the season, a 4.82 average that ranked NO. 5 in the GNAC. ... Logged her 200th, 300th, 400th, 500th, and 600th career digs.

Freshman (2015): Played in 27 of the 28 matches, starting 12, and 93 of the 96 games, missing one match due to illness. ... Became a steady presence at libero, coming up with 183 digs. Also emerged as a solid server with 18 aces, and was the only Falcon with more aces than service errors. ... Had a career-high 11 digs on Oct. 10 at home against Montana State Billings. ... Served a career-high four aces on Sept. 4 against Dixie State.

Liberty High School (Hillsboro, Ore.): Was part of Northwest Oregon Conference championship team that placed 6th in the Class 5A state tournament in 2011. ... All-NWOC 2nd team as junior and senior; honorable mention as freshman and sophomore. ... Team captain sophomore and senior years. ... Volleyball Athletic Scholar Award all four years. ... Also played tennis, and was varsity captain as a sophomore and junior. ... Tennis Athletic Scholar Award three years. ... Away from athletics, was involved in leadership, honor society, and student council.

Personal: Amanda Lauren Ganete. ... Born Aug. 23, 1997. ... Applied Human Biology major, with an eye toward pre-med.

Fun facts: In addition to high school volleyball, also played in numerous national tournaments with the Oregon Juniors Volleyball Academy team. ... If not playing volleyball, she would do gymnastics "because I love the freedom, risk, and intensity of the sport." ... Dumbest movie she has evern seen is "Mean Girls 2." ... Book she just couldn't put down was "Looking for Alaska" by John Green. ... Favorite junk foods are french fries, cotton candy, ice cream, and anything chocolate. ... If she could be any action hero or heroine, she would be Superman "because he has superhuman strength, super speed, can fly, has X-ray vision, heat vision, wind and freeze breath, super hearing and sight, and resistance to basically everything. That's top-notch." ... In 10 years, plans to be married and finishing up med school, and also would like to take a mission trip."


CAREER STATISTICS
Yr    GP    K     E   TA    Pct   Ast   Ace    D   BS   BA    TOT   Pts
15    93    0     0    4   .000    9     18   183   1    0     1    19.0
16   106    2     2   12   .000   66     16   511   0    0     0    18.0
17   101    4     2   12   .167   76     15   468   0    0     0    19.0
18   104    1     0    4   .250   84     27   491   0    0     0    28.0
TOT  404    7     4   32   .094  235     76  1653   1    0     1    84.0