Biography
SPU: Four-year letterwinner. ... All-GNAC 1st team in 2017, 2018, and 2019. ... All GNAC honorable mention in 2016. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2017, 2018, and 2019. ... Preseason All-GNAC in 2018 and 2019. ... GNAC Offensive Player of the Week for Nov. 5-10, 2018.
Senior (2019): Played and started all 28 matches and all 105 games. ... On Nov. 7 in a home match against Western Washington, recorded the 1,000th dig of her career. That made her just the third SPU player in the 34-year history of the program to reach 1,000 kills, 1,000 points, and 1,000 digs. ... Delivered a career-high 6 service aces in a three-game sweep of Cal State East Bay on Sept. 6. ... Hit .200 or better in 12 matches, with three of those in the .300s. ... Notched the 100th block of her career in the season opener against Concordia Irvine on Sept. 6. ... Led the Falcons with 43 service aces, an 0.41 per-game average that tied for No. 6 in the GNAC. ... Went back and forth with teammate Maddie Batiste all season for the most kills on the team -- and they wound up tied with 369, an average of 3.51 per game that was No. 3 in the GNAC. ... Was No. 4 on the conference's points list with 428.5 (4.08 per game). ... Recorded 16 double-doubles for a final career total of 52. ... Finished No. 2 in SPU history for career kills (1,369), No. 4 in kills per game (3.48), and No. 3 in career points (1,550.0).
Junior (2018): Played all 27 matches, with 26 starts, and all 104 games. ... Became just the seventh player in SPU history to tally 1,000 points and 1,000 kills. ... The 1,000th point came on Oct. 20 in a five-game match at Montana State Billings. ... The 1,000th kill came in the season finale against No. 2-ranked Western Washington in Brougham Pavilion. It was Oddo's 32nd and final kill of the match, coming late in Game 5 of the marathon battle that the Vikings eventually won, 15-13. That 32nd kill tied the school's single-match record originally set by Alyssa Given on Nov. 2, 2006. Since then, no Falcon had even reached 30 kills in a match until Oddo did it in this one. ... On the way to those 32 kills, Oddo had a career-high 82 attacks, and hit a solid .305. ... Her 35.5 points for the match (32 kills, 3 aces, 1 block assist) was a program record, breaking the record of 33.5 set by Given in her big match against WWU. ... Finished with 362 kills, an average of 3.48 per game, ranking No. 5 in the GNAC. ... Logged 16 double-doubles, giving her 36 for her career. ... After having double-digit kills in just four of the first eight matches, went for 10 or more in 18 of the last 19, including a stretch of 14 in a row. ... Hit for .200 or better in 14 matches, with five of those at .300 or better. ... Had a career-high five block assists / total blocks at home against Montana State Billings on Sept. 20. ... Delivered a team-leading 33 service aces, which was nearly as many as she had in her first two years combined (36). ... Totaled a single-season best 323 digs, her first time to top 300.
Sophomore (2017): Played in all 28 matches with 26 starts, totaling 113 of the 114 games. ... Her 396 kills was an SPU record for sophomores, breaking the old mark of 381 set by Alyssa Given in 2005. Got the record-setter on Nov. 16 at Western Oregon. ... Set single-season bests for attacks (1,090), hitting percentage (.219), service aces (21) solo blocks (4), block assists (36), total blocks (40), and points (439.0). ... Ranked No. 7 in the GNAC at 3.50 kills per game. ... Hammered a career-high 22 kills on Sept. 21 at Alaska Fairbanks. Topped that with 23 on Sept. 28 at Montana State Billings, than matched that with 23 on Nov. 16 at Western Oregon. ... Had 20 or more kills in six matches. ... Recorded 8 kill-dig double-doubles. ... Hit a career-best .474 (10 kills-1 error-19 attacks) at Montana State Billings on Oct. 28. ... Served a career-high 4 aces n Sept. 1 at Hawaii Pacific. ... Her 21 aces tied for No. 3 on the team. ... Came up with a career-best 2 solo blocks at home against Alaska Fairbanks on Oct. 21. ... Recorded her 500th career kill on Oct. 19 at home against Alaska Anchorage. ... Put her 500th point into the book on Oct. 7 at home against Central Washington.
Freshman (2016): Started all 18 matches and all 71 games she played prior to going down with a season-ending knee injury in Game 5 at home against Western Washington on Oct. 15. ... Finished with 242 kills, ranking No. 4 all-time among SPU freshmen. ... Prior to the injury, was a threatening to beat the all-time Falcon freshman record of 352 kills, set in 1998. ... Her 3.41 kills per game average ranked No. 4 in the GNAC. ... Started her career with a double-double of 14 kills and 11 digs at Concordia Irvine on Sept. 2 in the Labor Day Classic on that school's home court. ... Had 13 double-doubles for the season, including three in her four matches at Irvine. ... Had career highs of 20 kills, a .348 hitting percentage (20-4-46) and 22.5 points at Alaska Fairbanks on Sept. 15. ... Came up with a career-high 32 digs against WWU on Oct. 15 before the injury happened.
Alta Loma High School: Mt. Baldy League MVP as a senior in 2015. ... All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) 1st team in 2014 and 2015. ... All-Mt. Baldy League 1st team as a junior in 2014. ... Saugus Tournament All-Tournament team in 2014 and 2015.
Personal: Gabrielle Ann Oddo. ... Business Administration major.
Fun facts: Started playing volleyball as a freshman in high school. Played soccer for six years prior to that. ... Favorite sport to watch is tennis. ... Asked about the dumbest movie she ever saw, says "I like just about every movie." ... Book she just couldn't put down is "The Best of Me" by Nicholas Sparks. ... Favorite junk food is BBQ pop chips. ... Favorite healthy food is artichokes. ... Favorite TV program is "Scandal." ... Does not have a favorite sports team, but favorite athlete is volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings. ... Easiest subject in school is math. ... Toughest subject is English. ... If she could invite anyone to dinner, it would be Whitney Houston "because she was an awesome singer and I would want her to sing for me." She would serve spaghetti "because that is the best meal ever." ... If she could be any action hero or heroine, would be Iron Man "because he gets to fly and shoot with his hands, and he gets to be rich and live in a skyscraper." ... Her friends call her Gabs. ... In 10 years, plans to be involved in business in some way and perhaps starting a family. ... Wants to travel to the Philippines; her grandma is from there.
CAREER STATISTICS
Yr GP K E TA Pct Ast Ace D BS BA TOT Pts
16 71 242 93 816 .183 14 15 237 1 20 21 268.0
17 113 396 157 1090 .219 10 21 190 4 36 40 439.0
18 104 362 127 1164 .202 36 33 323 1 37 38 414.5
19 105 369 128 1196 .202 28 43 312 3 27 30 428.5
TOT 393 1369 505 4266 .203 88 112 1062 9 120 129 1550.0
