2016 Women's Volleyball Roster
Roster
Lauren Cloyd
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Centennial
- Hometown:
- Champaign, Ill.
As a senior (2016): Named team captain...started 31 of 33 matches...led the team with 258 kills, including 97 blocks...registered a career-high nine blocks in the opener vs. St. John’s (8/26)... earned All-Tournament honors at the Cherry & White Challenge after leading the team with a .310 hitting percentage and a total of 34 kills in three contests (9/9-10)...led the team in kills in all three matches, including a season-high 15 kill against New Hampshire (9/9/16)...named to the Rutgers Invitational all-tournament team after averaging 2.27 kills per set and 1.00 blocks per set across the three-game event (9/16-17)...registered seven kills and four blocks at Indiana (10/14), as RU led IU in the team block category, 10-4...posted eight blocks at No. 4 Wisconsin (10/30), as RU led in total blocks, 14-2...posted 12 kills at Maryland (11/13)...notched 14 kills at Iowa to lead RU for the fifth consecutive match (11/16), also marking her highest total in a league match.
As a junior (2015): Started 22 of 31 games…finished second on the team with 2.17 kills per set (228) and second with 88 total blocks …named Academic All-Big Ten...notched three straight matches with double-digit kills against Long Beach State (Sept. 5), Illinois State (Sept. 5) and at Colgate (Sept. 11) … posted a season-high five blocks against Yale (Sept. 12) … tied for the team lead with eight kills against Northwestern (Oct. 25) … led the squad with nine kills in the match against then-No. 16 Wisconsin (Oct. 9)...finished second on the team with a season-high 12 kills with only two errors for a .455 hitting percentage at No. 23 Michigan (Oct. 14), along with three blocks...led the team with four blocks at Michigan State (Oct. 17)...finished second on the stat sheet with eight kills and two blocks in the win over Maryland (Oct. 21)...posted another eight kills and four blocks at Maryland (Oct. 24)...tied for the team lead with five blocks at Iowa (Oct. 31) as RU led the match in blocks, 9-5...notched five kills and two blocks against No. 1 Penn State (Nov. 6)…notched 11 kills and six blocks as Rutgers pushed No. 15 Purdue to the brink in a close four-set loss (Nov. 18)…led RU in the season finale with nine kills at No. 16 Ohio State (Nov. 28).
As a freshman (2013): Appeared in 16 matches, starting 14 for the Scarlet Knights ... tallied double-digit kills in five matches ... recorded seven total blocks on three occasions against Temple (Nov. 22), Stony Brook (Sept. 7) and Kent State (Aug. 30) ... terminated a career/season-high 13 kills on 22 attacks (.409) against Temple (Nov. 22) ... recorded her second-highest block total of the year with six against Cincinnati (Oct. 27) ... led the team with eight kills against Temple (Oct. 20) ... registered six blocks and eight kills versus Memphis (Oct.18) ... tied for the team-lead with 11 kills in the match versus Oakland (Sept. 6).
High School: Four-year varsity letterwinner at Centennial ... selected First Team All-State as a senior ... named 2012 All-Area Player of the Year and All-Area First Team ... earned Big 12 Conference First Team accolades ... named MVP at the Effingham Crossroads Tournament and was on the all-tournament teams at the Charger Invite and the Wilmington Invite ... selected All-Area Special Mention and Big 12 All-Conference Honorable Mention as a junior and a sophomore ... picked as Centennial High School Offensive Player of the Year as a junior ... named to Charger Invite and Wilmington Invite All-Tournament teams in 2010 as a sophomore, as well as the best blocker at the Sports Performance National Junior Classic ... lettered all four years in basketball ... member of the National Honor Society and a three-year winner of the Big 12 Conference Scholar-Athlete Award and the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Scholastic Achievement Award.
Personal: Daughter of Tom and Pam Cloyd ... has one sibling, Spencer ... majoring in sport management with a minor in organizational leadership.
