Seattle Pacific University Athletics

SPU: Five-year letterwinner. ... All-GNAC honorable mention in 2019 and 2021. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2019, 2020 and 2021. ...  GNAC Player of the Week on Oct. 21, 2019, after logging 32 kills, 24 digs, and .253 hitting in road victories against Saint Martin's and Montana State Billings. ... Team captain in 2020-21 and co-captain in 2021.

5th Year (2021):  Coming back for her Covid year of additional eligibility, played in and started all 25 matches, totaling 86 sets. ... Had 11 matches with double-digit kills, with a season-high 18 in a five-set victory at home against Alaska Fairbanks on Oct. 23. ... Led the Falcons with 228 kills and 620 attacks. ... Recorded four double-doubles, finishing her career with 24. ... Logged the 1,000th point of her career on Nov. 11 at home on Senior Day against Western Washington, getting it on a kill early in Set 4. That made her the 18th player in the 36-year history of the SPU program to reach 1,000. ... Put together three consecutive matches of .300-plus hitting: .357 vs. Western Oregon on Oct. 2 (8 kills-3 errors-14 attacks), .385 at Montana State Billings on Oct. 9 (14-4-26) and .375 at Western Washington on Oct. 14 (12-3-24). ... Got her hands on a single-season career-best 44 blocks (2 solo). ... Came up with 200 digs. ... Her 20 service aces included a career high-tying 4 at home against Saint Martin's on Sept. 30.

Senior (2020-21): Played in all 18 matches and 67 of the 69 games. ... Slammed a team-leading 185 kills, with a season-high 20 of those coming in a four-game victory at home against Western Washington on April 24, the first match of a doubleheader. ... Had double-digit kills in eight of the 18 matches. .. Hit a career-best .500 (10 kills-1 error-18 attacks) at Northwest University on March 19. ... In the second half of the season-opening doubleheader at Northwest on Feb. 27, delivered a career-best four service aces. ... Had four double-doubles, all of them consecutively, including 16 kills-14 digs and 15 kills-15 digs in a doubleheader sweep of Central Washington on April 3 in Brougham Pavilion. That gave her 20 for her career. ... Her first kill to open the second half of a doubleheader at Saint Martin's on March 2 was the 500th of her career. Collected No. 600 in the first half of a doubleheader at home against Western Washington on April 24. ... Came up with her 500th career dig on Aprll 10 at home against Northwest Nazarene.

Junior (2019): Played in all 28 matches and all 105 games. ... Set career highs in almost every major statistical category. ... After twice tying her high of 14 kills (Sept. 6 vs. Cal State East Bay, Sept. 12 vs. Cal State Monterey Bay), came up with back-to-back 20-kill performances: first in a four-game loss against Hawaii Hilo on Sept. 13, and then in a four-game victory against Chaminade on Sept. 14. .... Went for 20 in a four-game victory at Concordia-Portland on Nov. 2, then topped that with 22 in a five-game defeat against Simon Fraser on Nov. 19. ... Slammed another 20 in a four-game victory against Saint Martin's on Nov. 12. ... The Simon Fraser and Saint Martin's matches were back-to-back 20-20 double-doubles: a career-high 20 digs vs. the Clan, then another high of 22 vs. the Saints. ... Had 15 double-doubles for the year after recording just one in her first two seasons combined. ... Went back and forth with teammate Gabby Oddo 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. ... Notched a career-high 4 assists vs. Montana State Billings on Nov. 14. ... Had a career-high 4 total blocks at Cal Poly Pomona on Sept. 12 and matched that vs. Simon Fraser on Nov. 9 and at Alaska Fairbanks on Nov. 21. ... Recorded her 100th, 200th, 300th, and 400th career kills and career digs. ... Went from 116 career points at the start of the season to 532.5 points by the end of it.

Sophomore (2018): Played in 23 of the 27 matches, with six starts, totaling 86 games. ... Set a career high of 14 kills on Nov. 3 at Alaska Fairbanks, then matched that seven days later in the regular-season finale against Western Washington. ... Also set a career-high 52 attacks in the WWU match. ... Logged her first collegiate double-double, notching 13 kills and 19 digs, in a five-gamer against Metro State on Aug. 25. ... Scored her 100th career point on Nov. 8 in a four-gamer at home against Simon Fraser.

Freshman (2017): Played in 21 of the 28 matches, with one start, totaling 48 games. ... Logged 4 kills against Nebraska Kearney on Sept. 2 at the Hawaii Challenge, and matched that career high on Sept. 14 at home in the GNAC opener against Concordia-Portland. ... Also set a career-high with 3 block assists in the Concordia match. ... Had an error-free match with 3 kills on 8 attacks (.375) against Cal State San Marcos at the D2 West Region Challenge on Sept. 9.

Central Catholic High School: Oregon Player of the Year and Class 6A Mount Hood Conference Player of the Year as a senior in 2016. ... Helped Rams wins 6A Oregon state championship in 2016, and finish 2nd at state in 2013, 2014, and 2015. ... All-Conference 1st team in 2015 and 2016. ... All-Conference 2nd team in 2014.

Personal: Madilyn Grace Batiste. ... Communications major.

Fun facts: Has played volleyball for 10 years prior to SPU, and that has been her only sport. ... If not for volleyball, says she probably would play basketball. ... Favorite sport to watch is football. ... Dumbest movie she ever saw was "Alvin & The Chipmunks." .. Book she just couldn't put down was "The Fault in Our Stars." ... Favorite junk food is pizza. ... Favorite healthy food is almonds. ... Favorite TV program is "The Fosters." ... Favorite sports team is the Golden State Warriors. ... Favorite athlete is Golden State's Steph Curry. ... Her dream car is a Range Rover. ... Loves to shop for shoes. ... If she could invite anyone to dinner, it would be Steph Curry "because he is truly amazing," and would cook whatever he wanted. ... If she could be any action hero or heroine, would be Invisible Girl from "The Incredibles." ... Her friends call her Madz or Maddie. ... In 10 years, plans to be delivering babies for a living. ... Has taken several trips to Canada, and calls it "my favorite place in the world."


CAREER STATISTICS
Yr    GP    K     E    TA    Pct   Ast   Ace   D   BS   BA   TOT   Pts
17    48    14    18   67  -.060    2     6   10    1    5    6    23.5
18    86    81    68  268   .049    5     7   52    2    7    9    93.5
19   105   369   211 1088   .145   23    26  344    3   37   40   416.5
20    67   185   121  544   .118   10    21  172    0   29   29   220.5
21    88   228   123  620   .169   15    20  200    2   42   44   271.0
TOT  394   877   541 2587   .130   55    80  778    8  120  128  1024.0