2019 Volleyball Roster

Andrew Towell

25 Katie Mansfield

  • Position Libero
  • Height 5-1
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Lynnwood
  • Hometown Lynnwood, WA

Biography

SPU: Three-year letterwinner. Four years with the program. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2018 and 2019. ... SPU John Glancy Award winner in 2019, recognizing her contributions on and off the court. ... Named winner of team's JoAnn Atwell-Scrivner Ambassador award in 2019.

Senior (2019): Played in 19 of the 28 matches, totaling 53 games. ... Came up with a single-season best 88 digs, nearly twice as many as she had in her first three seasons. Included in that total was a career-high 14 in the season-opening five-gamer against Concordia Irvine on Sept. 6. She later topped that with 15 in a four-game at home against Concordia-Portland on Oct. 3. ... Had at least one dig in 17 of her 19 matches. 

Junior (2018): Played in 15 matches totaling 33 games. ... Recorded a single-season best 32 digs, which was more than double the total of her first two seasons combined. ... Collected six digs in three different matches. 

Sophomore (2017): Played in four matches totaling seven games. ... Had 7 digs against Fresno Pacific in the D2 West Region Challenge on Sept. 8.

Freshman (2016):  Played in 10 matches with 2 starts totaling 27 games, primarily as a serving specialist. ... First college ace came with SPU facing match point against Azusa Pacific, down 14-12 in Game 5 on Sept. 10 at the D2 West Region Showcase. The Falcons went on to win that match-deciding game, 17-15. ... Finished with 3 aces for the season.

Lynnwood High School: All-Wesco 1st team as a senior in 2015. ... All-area 2nd team in 2015. ... Lynnwood co-MVP in 2015. 

Personal: Katie Raynae Mansfield. ... Art major. ... Father graduated from SPU in 1991. ... Sister, two years older, also attends SPU.

Fun facts: Also has done gymnastics. ... Favorite sport to watch is football. ... Dumbest movie she ever saw was "Mean Girls 2." ... Book she just couldn't put down was "The Storyteller" by Jodi Picoult. ... Favorite junk food is Hot Cheetos. (Says that's also her favorite healthy food.) ... Favorite TV program is "New Girl." ... Favorite sports team is the Seattle Seahawks. ... Favorite athlete is Earl Thomas III. ... Easiest subject in school is math. ... Toughest subject is Spanish. ... If she could invite anyone to dinner, it would be her dog, Lucy "because she has been on a diet recently and I want to give her a real meal -- maybe a nice steak." ... If she could be any action hero or heroine, would be Bilbo Boggins "because I have always wanted to be a hobbit." ... Nickname (as per her uncle) is Little Lightning. ... Has always wanted to tour around Israel and also the places Jesus visited, according to the Bible. "It would be breathtaking to walk the paths that Jesus and his disciples did."


CAREER STATISTICS
Yr    GP    K     E   TA    Pct   Ast   Ace   D   BS   BA   TOT   Pts
16    27    0     0    0   .000    0     3    8    0    0    0    3.0
17     7    0     0    0   .000    0     0    7    0    0    0    0.0
18    33    0     0    0   .000    3     1   32    0    0    0    1.0
19    53    0     1    1 -1.000    1     3   88    0    0    0    3.0
TOT  120    0     1    1 -1.000    4     7  135    0    0    0    7.0


 

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