2024 Beach Volleyball Roster
Biography
2024 (Senior): Played in seven matches, finishing with a 1-6 record.
Indoor Volleyball:
2023 (Senior): All-Pacific West Conference First Team ... Academic All-Pacific West Conference ... PacWest Player of the Week (Nov. 7) ... named to the NCAA West Regional All-Tournament Team ... College Sports Communicators Academic All-District ... PacWest/GNAC Challenge All-Tournament Team ... played 117 sets and started all 34 matches ... second on the team in kills average (3.09), kills (361), service aces (46), ace average (0.39) and points average (424.5) ... third in digs (306) and digs average (2.62) ... ace total tied for 10th in single season history.
2022 (Junior): All-PacWest First Team ... Academic All-PacWest ... D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award honoree ... College Sports Communicators Academic All-District ... named to the NCAA West Region All-Tournament Team ... helped Silverswords win their second straight Pacific West Conference title, an NCAA West Regional finals appearance and an AVCA national ranking in the final poll ... started all 34 matches and 119 sets ... finished second on the team in kills (275) and kills per set (2.31) ... recorded 53 aces, fourth-most in program history, and ranked fourth in the PacWest in aces per set (0.45) ... second on the team in digs (368) and digs per set (3.09) ... totaled 41 blocks ... recorded 20 double-digit digs matches and nine double-doubles.
Fall 2021 (Sophomore): Named All-Pacific West Conference Second Team outside hitter ... Academic All-PacWest ... D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award honoree ... helped Silverswords win first Pacific West Conference title since 1996 with a program-record 27 wins and a berth in the NCAA West Regional … also helped them achieve first AVCA national ranking since 2005 … played 28 matches with 26 starts in 103 sets … finished third on team in kills per set (2.49), fifth in total service aces (24), second in points per set (3.01) and digs per set (3.16) and fourth in total blocks (51.0) … posted 10 double-doubles with 11 double-digit kill matches and 14 with double-digit digs.
Previous School: Attended Division I University of San Francisco in San Francisco, Calif.
Spring 2021 (Freshman): Started all 18 matches, playing 70 sets, hitting .149 on the year … finished second on the Dons in kills (234), kills average (3.34), digs (201) and digs average (2.87) … led the team in service aces (19) … tallied 21 total blocks (20 block assists, one solo).
Prep: Graduated from Alessandro Manzoni Liceo High School in 2020 … majority of volleyball experience is through some of the top club teams in Northern Italy including Vero Volley Monza, Igor Volley Novara, UYBA and Amatori Atletica Orago … helped Orago finish third in the national tournament … helped Monza and Novara to runner-up finishes at regional championships … selected to participate in Trofeo delle Regioni, a competition which pits the region’s top players against each other with her region finishing second place … as a teenager, played with Italian Levels B1 and B2 with some of the country’s best players … when she was at Novara, she trained with two Italian national team players, Francesca Piccinini and Paola Egonu.
Personal: Parents are Ruggero Corti and Daniela Copreni … is an only child … majoring in Psychology … would like to pursue a Master’s degree … enjoys yoga … has been playing volleyball since age 6.