Seattle Pacific University Athletics

SPU: Four-year letterwinner. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2019, 2020, and 2021. ... GNAC Player of the Week on May 10 after slamming 19 kills with .500 hitting in a home doubleheader sweep of Western Oregon on May 8. ... Team co-captain in 2021.

Senior (2021):  Played in all 25 matches with 24 starts, totaling 89 of the 91 sets. ... Recorded single-season highs of 185 kills, 489 attacks, and 209 digs. ... Had a career-high 54 attacks in a come-from-behind five-set homecourt victory against Alaska Fairbanks on Oct. 23. ... Set a career high with 21 digs at home against Northwest Nazarene on Sept. 16. Had a career-high 15 kills in that same match for one of her two season double-doubles. The other one came in the home match against Fairbanks with 12 kills and 14 digs. ... Tied her career high of 15 kills on Oct. 9 at Montana State Billings, as she hit .636 in that match (15 kills-1 error-22 attacks). ... Delivered 6 service aces at home against Biola on Sept. 9.

Junior (2020-21): Played in 15 matches with five starts totaling 48 sets. Missed three midseason matches with an injury. ... Her first match back from that injury was May 8 against Western Oregon. In the opener of the doubleheader, hit a career-high 800 with 8 kills and no errors on 10 attacks. Followed that 11 kills and just two errors on 24 attacks in the second match, giving her 19 kills and .500 hitting for the day. ... Put a career-high 13 kills onto the floor in the second half of a doubleheader at Saint Martin's on March 2, hitting .333 in that match. ... Logged her 200th career kill in the first half of a doubleheader at Western Washington on May 15.

Sophomore (2019): Played in all 28 matches, starting 22 of those. She was in all 105 sets, one of just three Falcons to do that. ... Set single-season highs in every major statistical category. ... Had 120 kills, hammering a career-high 11 against Hawaii Hilo on Sept. 13. ... Her 109 digs included tying her career high of 14 at home against Northwest Nazarene on Oct. 24. ... Delivered 39 service aces, the second-highest total on the team. She got a career-high 7 of those at Concordia-Portland on Nov. 2. She served the first 7 points of that match, including ace-ace-ace to start it off, and another one moments later to make the score 6-0. The Falcons went on to win in four games. ... Her 181.5 points for the season was the third-highest total on the team.

Freshman (2018): Played in 23 of the 27 matches, with three starts, totaling 74 of the 104 sets. ... Played primarily as a serving and defensive specialist. ... Had 106 digs. The 100th of those was part of her career-high 14, in the five-game regular-season finale against nationally ranked Western Washington in Brougham Pavilion. That was her first double-digit digs performance, topping two previous efforts of nine. ... Of her five service aces for the season, two of them came in that match against the Vikings. 

Kentwood High School: Four-year starter. ... All-South Puget Sound League honorable mention in 2014 and 2015. ... All North Puget Sound League 2nd team in 2016 and honorable mention in 2017. ... Helped Conquerors place 4th at state in 2016. ... Team Most Inspirational winner in 2014.

Personal: Erin O'Donnell Gould. ... Political science major.

Fun facts: Volleyball has always run in her family; in fact, her parents met through the sport. ... If not for volleyball, would return to dancing, as she did ballet and hip-hop for nine years before quitting to pursue volleyball full-time. ... Favorite sport to watch is gymnastics; also enjoys watching basketball and football. ... Dumbest movie she ever saw was "Office Christmas Party." ... Book she just couldn't put down was "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?", saying of that book, "Everyone who lives in Seattle or knows Seattle culture should read this book." ... Favorite junk food is jalapeno Cheetos. ... Favorite healthy food is green smoothies. ... Favorite TV programs are "Parks and Recreation," "New Girl," and "That 70s Show." ... Doesn't have a favorite sports team, but says she always roots for the underdog. ... Favorite athlete is volleyball player Courtney Thompson. ... Her dream car is a Mercedes G Wagon. ... Loves to shop for shoes, cute decor for her room, and gifts for other people. ... If she could invite anyone to dinner, it would be Malala Yousafzai "because she is a huge activist for women's rights and education rights, and I would love to talk to her and hear her ideas for pushing women's rights in Afghanistan. She would serve pizza. ... If she could be any action hero / heroine, would be Wonder Woman. ... Her friends call her Ern (removing the 'i' from her first name) or 'E.' ... In 10 years, wants to be helping other people, either through politics or going somewhere that is in need of hands-on help. ... Would like to have a chance to get back into painting and playing the piano.


CAREER STATISTICS
Yr    GP    K     E   TA    Pct   Ast   Ace   D   BS   BA    TOT   Pts
18    74    3     2   21   .048    6     5   106   0    0     0    8.0
19   105  120    78  389   .108   14    39   108   2   41    43  181.5
20    48   87    44  245   .176    2     6    40   1   18    19  103.0
21    89  165    98  489   .137   16    21   209   3   20    23  199.0
TOT  316  375   222 1144   .134   38    71   463   6   79    85  491.5