2022 Volleyball Roster
Jersey Number 2
Rylee Hinton
- Position:
- Middle Blocker
- Class:
- Senior
- Height:
- 6-2
- Hometown:
- Champaign, Ill.
- High School:
- Champaign Central HS
 University of Illinois Graduate |
Senior - 2022
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Played in 22 matches, making 20 starts
- Led the Big Ten with a .462 hitting percentage
- Amassed a season-high nine kills at Indiana. (11/23/22)
- Recorded 10 total blocks against Villanova (9/10/22)
- Logged three solo blocks at Michigan (1112/22)
- Earned eight block assists against Villanova (9/10/22) and at Rutgers (10/30/22)
- Posted a .727 hitting percentage after tallying eight kills on 11 attempts at Rutgers (10/30/22)
- Tallied a pair of digs against Michigan State (11/18/22)
- Recorded an assist against Nebraska (10/22/22) and Wisconsin (11/3/22)
Junior - 2021
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Made her only appearance of the season as she started against Indiana, posting three kills on a .286 hitting percentage and three blocks.
Sophomore - 2020-21
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week (1/25)
- Started all 16 matches she saw action in, playing in 61 sets in the conference-only 2020-21 shortened season
- Led the team and ranked ninth in the Big Ten with 75 blocks, while also posting 80 kills on a .263 hitting percentage, seven digs and four aces
- Paced the Illini with a career-high 10 blocks to go along with six kills on a .417 hitting percentage in a win over Indiana (3/27).
- Equaled a career-high with seven kills to go along with six blocks at No. 5 Minnesota (3/12/21).
- Totaled 11 kills on a .318 hitting percentage and eight blocks in two matches vs. No. 4 Nebraska (3/5-6/21).
- Posted six kills on a .556 hitting percentage to go along with four blocks vs. Ohio State (2/20/21).
- Totaled seven blocks at Penn State (2/6/21).
- Earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors after totaling 16 blocks for a 2.00 blocks per set average as the Illini held Iowa to a .097 hitting percentage in their two-match series.
- Notched back-to-back eight-block outings in both matches at Iowa (1/22-23/21).
Freshman - 2019
- Played in nine matches, starting five contests.
- Totaled 26 kills on a .303 hitting percentage and added 24 blocks.
- Saw action in three sets at Michigan (11/9), registering two kills on a .500 attack clip to go along with two blocks and one dig.
- Registered 13 kills on a .367 hitting percentage and a team-high 15 blocks at the Redbird Classic, including posting a career-high eight blocks against Illinois State (9/13).
- Made her Illini debut in the season-opening win over No. 19 Tennessee (8/30), posting four blocks, one kill and one dig.
- Graduated high school early from Central High School and enrolled at the start of the 2018 spring semester.
- Member of the Big Ten Volleyball Foreign Tour Team that traveled to Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan on June 14-26, 2019.
High School
- 2018 AVCA Under Armour All-America Second-Team honoree and PrepVolleyball Senior Ace
- Two-time News Gazette All-Area First-Team and First-Team Big 12 All-Conference selection as a junior and senior
- As a senior team captain, led her Central High School team to a Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Class 3A Sectional Semifinal showing after registering 3.38 kills per set on a .441 hitting percentage, which led the state of Illinois
- Earned News Gazette All-State Honorable Mention honors as a junior
- Named to the News Gazette All-Area Second-Team and All-Conference Honorable Mention as a sophomore
- Seven-time All-Tournament team honoree, including three-straight at the O'Fallon Township High School Volleyball Tournament, two-straight at the Mahomet Seymour High School Volleyball Tournament and the 2016 Champaign Centennial High School Volleyball Tournament
- Selected to the 2017 Sports Performance Volleyball President's Day Challenge All-Tournament Team and the 2017 Mizuno National Junior Classic All-Tournament Team as a member of Illini Elite Volleyball Club
- Helped lead Illini Elite to a third place finish at the 2018 AAU Nationals.
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