Sarah Blomgren

AWARDS/HONORS

2014 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2013 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2013 SEC Community Service Team
2012 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2014 (JUNIOR)

Significant contributor as a right side in 30 of 31 matches, including 12 starts
Ranked third on the team in kills per set (1.97) and fourth in kills (207)
Averaged 0.69 digs per set and 0.43 blocks per set
Matched career high with five blocks against Gardner-Webb (8/29) to go along with six kills and five digs
Had 13 kills while hitting .385 in win over Georgia Tech (8/30)
Hit .467 on 15 attempts vs. Campbell (9/12), finishing with eight kills and one attack error
Named to the Campbell Invitational All-Tournament Team after averaging 1.90 kills per set in three matches (9/12-13)
Posted a career-high 17 kills while hitting a career-best .538 vs. Mississippi State (10/24)
Recorded eight kills while hitting .400 and matched career-high with five blocks at Ole Miss (11/2)…
Produced 13 kills while hitting .370 vs. Alabama (11/9)
Matched career-high with 17 kills while hitting .400 and recorded a career-high nine digs at Georgia (11/23)
Wrapped up season with seven kills and eight digs vs. LSU (11/29)

2013 (SOPHOMORE)

Played in 30 out of 31 matches, including nine starts
Ranked second on the team in kills, averaging 2.10 per set
Reached double digits in kills nine times
Finished with 65 total blocks, averaging 0.64 per set
Recorded a career-high five blocks and seven kills in win over high Point (8/31)
Hit .321 to produced 13 kills in loss to Furman (9/7)
Tallied 14 kills while hitting .357 and three digs against Winthrop (9/7)
Registered five kills and matched career high with five blocks in win over Robert Morris (9/21)
Followed with five kills and five blocks against Presbyterian (9/21)
Produced 11 kills and three blocks against Arkansas (10/3)
Pitched in 10 kills and two blocks in win over Texas A&M (10/6)
Hit .455 to record 12 kills in win at Ole Miss (10/20)
Contributed a team-high 10 kills, five digs and three blocks against Tennessee (10/25)
Recorded a team-high 10 kills, three digs and first career service ace at Georgia (11/10)

2012 (FRESHMAN)

Battled an injury throughout the season, playing in 11 matches
Tallied extensive time on the court in her first two collegiate matches against LSU (9/16) and Auburn (9/21)
Posted highs in both kills and swings in the match at Auburn
Drew her only start against Mississippi (9/30)

HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB

Lettered three seasons at Saugus High School for Zack Ambrose
As a senior, she helped the Centurions to a Foothills League title, making an appearance in the California Interscholastic Federation’s Southern Section 1A quarterfinals
A first-team all-league and All-Santa Clarita Valley choice, the latter by The Signal newspaper
Posted 3.5 kills per set, second on the team, a squad-best 57 aces and stood in the top four in blocks and digs
Twice named her team’s best defensive player
A second-team All-SCV choice by The Signal and first-team All-Foothills as a junior, when she posted 2.9 kills per set and a team-high 0.5 blocks per set
Tallied 2.3 kills and 0.6 blocks per set as a sophomore, garnering second-team All-Foothills accolades
Also lettered one season in track, making CIF Southern Section meet in the high jump during her junior year…Spent one year at Frazier Mountain High School, earning one volleyball letter there
Led the Falcons in blocking (1.5 per-set average) en route to first-team All-High Desert League honors
Played with the Legacy Volleyball Club for Tony Ker
Helped her 17s team to the Phoenix Festival title
Off the court, she was nominated for Saugus’s SAMMY award, which honors an athletes success both on and off the playing field

PERSONAL

Sarah Alyce Blomgren is the daughter of Dave and Cindy Blomgren
She has one older brother, Brett, who plays in the North American Hockey League
Lists fishing and swimming among her hobbies
Says going to play volleyball in Austria in 2009 as her biggest athletic thrill
Calls former club coach Gerrit Maxwell her biggest volleyball influence
Majoring in exercise science