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2015 Women's Volleyball

9 Michellie McDonald-O'Brien

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool St. Ignatius Prep
  • Hometown San Francisco, Calif.

Biography

2015: Saw action in 25-of-26 contests (90 sets), making 24 starts … Compiled 182 kills and 68 blocks (second on team) … Ranked second on team with a .241 hitting percentage … Posted eight or more kills in 11 matches, and reached double digits on seven occasions … Recorded the highest hitting percentage of any player this season (.476, 12 kills) versus George Mason on Sept. 5 … Registered a season-high 13 kills against Yale on Oct. 16 … Notched double-digit kills in three of the last four matches of the season … Completes career with 92 matches played, 382 kills and 138 blocks.

2014: Appeared in 40 sets across 24 matches … Third on team with 0.55 blocks/set … Recorded 11 kills and hit .417 against Brown (10/11) … Had four block assists against Colgate (9/5) and at Dartmouth (10/18) … Averaged 1.58 points/set.

2013: Appeared in 73 sets across 24 matches … Set career high with 14 kills and two service aces against Villanova (9/21) … Matched career high with three digs against Villanova (9/21) and Cornell (10/5) … Fifth on team with 119 kills … Recorded 31 total blocks.

2012: Played in 34 sets over 19 matches ... Had five kills against Radford (9/15) ... Set career highs against Towson with seven kills and seven block assists (9/23) ... Matched her career high with another seven kills at Princeton, hitting a career-best .312 (10/19) and adding three block assists ... Tallied her first career solo block against Dartmouth, adding two block assists and four kills in the match (10/27).

High School: Three-year varsity letterwinner in volleyball as well as four-year letterwinner in track & field at St. Ignatius Prep ... Member of the 2010 Central Coast Section volleyball champions ... First-team All-WCAL and All-City San Francisco in 2010 ... Second-team All-WCAL and first-team All-City San Francisco in 2011 ... Placed eighth in the high jump at the 2011 CIF State Track & Field Championships ... Lifetime member of the California Scholarship Federation ... Member of the honor roll for all four years of high school.


Personal: 
Daughter of Mary O'Brien and Terry McDonald ... O'Brien played volleyball and basketball at the University of Oregon while McDonald was a soccer player at San Francisco State University ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.


Seasonsp-mpkk/setapctaa/ssasa/ssedigd/srebsbatbb/sbebheptspts/s
2012..34-19290.851293.18310.0300.003110.320116170.505138.01.12
2013..73-241191.6359311.19330.0440.055130.180229310.4233139.51.90
2014..40-24521.3019150.22030.0800.00040.100022220.552063.01.58
2015..90-251822.0272456.24160.0700.003190.210563680.7660218.52.43
TOTAL.237-933821.611621010.218130.0540.0211470.20081301380.58164459.01.94

SINGLE-MATCH HIGHS:
Kills: 14, at Villanova, Sept. 21, 2013
Attacks: 31, at Villanova, Sept. 21 2013
Attack Percentage: .476 (12-2-21), vs. George Mason, Sept. 5, 2015 
Digs: 4, vs. Howard, Sept. 6, 2015
Blocks: 7, Towson, Sept. 23, 2012
Block assists: 7, Towson, Sept. 23, 2012
Block solos: 1, eight times

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2012Freshman

    MB
    6'0"
    9
  • 9

    2013Sophomore

    MB
    6'0"
    9
  • 9

    2014Junior

    MB
    6'0"
    9
  • 9

    2015Senior

    MB
    6'0"
    9