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Cadie Bates

  • height 6-2
  • class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Temecula, Calif.
  • Previous School Duke
  • Major Sport and Entertainment Management
  • High school Great Oak
  • height 6-2
  • class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Temecula, Calif.
  • Previous School Duke
  • Major Sport and Entertainment Management
  • High school Great Oak

Cadie Bates Bio

AWARDS/HONORS

  • Academic All-ACC (2015, 16, 17)
  • 2018 AVCA Top Flight Honoree
  • CCSA Pair of the Week (3/27)
  • USA Volleyball Collegiate Championship Qualifier
  • 2019 CCSA All-Conference Team
  • 2019 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll

2019

  • Won 17 matches with partner Shannon Williams at the top position, earning them CCSA All-Conference honors – the first Gamecock pair to make the postseason list.
  • Her signature win of the season came in a three-set takedown of No. 2 Southern Cal’s top team of Bustamante and Graudina, helping the team upset the Women of Troy.
  • Bates and Williams also had ranked wins over No. 18 FAU and No. 18 Georgia State.

2018

  • Went 22-10 as an individual, and 22-9 with teammate Katie Smith (3-3 at No. 1, 16-4 at No. 2).
  • The pair’s 22 overall wins are third-most in a single season in program history.
  • Went 6-2 against conference opponents with Smith, with seven wins over AVCA top-20 teams.
  • Bates and Smith had signature wins over No. 11 Georgia State, No. 7 LSU, No. 3 Hawai’i and No. 11 Grand Canyon in the regular season, and defeated No. 19 Tulane’s pair of McHugh/Mertz at the conference tournament.
  • Named the CCSA Pair of the Week on March 27, after wins over FGCU, Hawai’i, TCU and UAB at the team’s Gamecock Challenge Tournament.
  • Qualified for the USA Volleyball Collegiate Championship and made the quarterfinal round.

PREVIOUS SCHOOL

  • Played in 83 career matches at Duke, totaling 620 kills and 559 digs over four seasons.
  • Had a career year as a senior, averaging 3.11 kills and 3.17 digs per set while playing in all 121 sets for the team.

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB

  • Helped Great Oak to its best record in program history at 27-2 as a senior, guiding the Wolfpack to the 2013 Southwestern League championship and the CIF-SS Division 1AA semifinals.
  • Led Great Oak with 234 kills and also registered 166 digs during her senior season.
  • Garnered league MVP, first team all-area, first team All-CIF-SS Division 1AA, first team all-state and Citrus Belt Area Athletic Directors Association Senior Female Athlete of the Year honors.
  • Selected to the High Performance Youth National A2 Team as well as the Olympic Development Program in Colorado Springs.
  • Four-year Scholar-Athlete

PERSONAL

  • Daughter of Michael and Mary Lyn Bates
  • Has an older sister, Carlee
  • Her father played football at Miami (Ohio), and her sister plays soccer at Montana