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2023 Volleyball Roster

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17 Vanessa Pan

  • Position Defensive Specialist/Libero
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown San Mateo, Calif.
  • High School Notre Dame HS
  • Prev School Columbia
  • Instagram vanessa.pan

Biography

Graduation Badge University of Illinois Graduate

NIL OpportunitiesĀ 

GRADUATE STUDENT - 2023

  • Posted six digs, three assists and an ace at Northern Illinois (8/26/23)
  • Recorded four digs and an assist againstĀ Valparaiso (8/29/23)
  • Tallied six digs and four assistsĀ against Wichita State (9/1/22)
  • Logged three digs and an ace against Illinois State (9/3/23)
  • Tallied eight digs, an ace and an assist at UIC (9/5/23)
  • Posted four digs, three assists and an aceĀ at Notre Dame (9/7/23)
  • Recorded four digsĀ against Oklahoma (9/8/23)
  • Logged four digsĀ at Bradley (9/12/23)
  • Tallied 12 digsĀ against USC (9/14/23)
  • Amassed three aces and three digs against UCF (9/15/23)
  • Posted seven digs, a pair of assists and an ace at Indiana (9/20/23)
  • Recorded eight digs,Ā a kill and an aceĀ against Michigan State (9/24/23)
  • Paced the team with 14 digs against #15 Penn State (9/29/23)
  • Tallied eight digs and an ace against Iowa (9/30/23)
  • Posted eight digs and an aceĀ at #19 Purdue (10/4/23)
  • Recorded four digsĀ against #1 Wisconsin (10/7/23)
  • Logged five digs, three assists and an aceĀ at Ohio State (10/13/23)
  • Notched four digsĀ against Rutgers (10/15/23)
  • Posted 13 digs, four assists and a pair of acesĀ at Maryland (10/22/23)
  • Logged nine digs and an aceĀ at Rutgers (10/22/23)
  • Posted a season-high 19 digs and added an ace against Indiana (!0/25/23)
  • Tallied four digs and an ace against #16 Purdue (10/28/23)
  • Registered 10 digsĀ against Northwestern (11/1/23)
  • Added a pair of digs and an aceĀ at #2 Wisconsin (11/4/23)
  • Logged five digsĀ at Iowa (11/10/23)
  • Recorded four digs and an aceĀ at #1 Nebraska (11/12/23)
  • Posted six digs, an ace and an assistĀ against Ohio State (11/15/23)
  • Tallied three digs and an aceĀ against Michigan (11/18/23)
  • Recorded five digs, an ace and an assist at Minnesota (11/24/23)
  • Registered five digs and an ace at Northwestern (11/25/23)

Senior – 2022 at Columbia

  • Played in all 23 matched and 83 sets
  • Led the team with 322 digs and 3.88 digs per set
  • First on the team with 440 total receptions
  • Paced Columbia with 33 aces on the year
  • Logged 21 digs against Cornell (10/22/22)
  • Posted a season best 25 digs against Lafayette (9/9/22)
  • Tallied eight service aces against Lafayette (9/9/22)
  • Totaled nine assists against Binghamton (9/3/22)
  • Earned a kill against Cornell (9/24/22)

Junior -Ā 2021 at Columbia

  • Played in all 24 of Columbia's matches
  • Led the Ivy League in total service aces (35)
  • Finished third in the Ivy League in services aces per set with 0.41
  • Was fifth in the league in digs per set, finishing with 3.98
  • Led Columbia in total digs (338) and digs per set
  • Had 17 matches with at least 10 digs
  • Opened season with five straight matches (9/3-11/21) with at least 14 digs
  • Posted 25 digs and a season-high four service aces in Columbia's win over St. Francis Brooklyn (9/10/21)
  • Had 17 digs in Columbia's win over Iona (9/11/21)
  • Posted a season-high 31 digs, while adding three service aces, four assists and one kill in Columbia's Ivy League opening win over Cornell (9/25/21)
  • Ā In final eight matches, had at least 12 digs
  • Dug 24 balls at CornellĀ (10/23/21)
  • Finished the season with 19 digs at Penn (11/13/21).


Sophomore - 2020 at Columbia

  • Season canceled (COVID-19)


Freshman - 2019 at Columbia

  • Saw action in all 24 matches, starting six
  • Finished second on the team with 18 service aces, averaging 0.20 aces per set
  • Added 104 total digs, while averaging 1.17 digs per set
  • Recorded a career-high two kills and added five digs in win against Canisius (9/7/19)
  • Collected a career-high 12 digs against Fordham (9/19/19)
  • Had a three-match stretch, from Sept. 19 (Fordham) to Sept. 21 (LIU) with 11 service aces
  • Smashed a career-high five service aces against San Jose State (9/20/19)Ā 
  • Had an Ivy League match high seven digs against Dartmouth (10/12/19)
  • Tallied two service aces and five digs against Princeton (11/2/19)


High School

  • Three-time letterwinner in volleyball and one-time letterwinner in basketball at Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California
  • A key cog of three championship squads, winning the West Bay Athletic League Championship in 2016, following that up with back-to-back Central Coast Section Division 4 Championships (2017-18)
  • Named Second-Team WBAL All-League in 2018
  • Spent time competing in gymnastics, winning the 2011 USA Gymnastics Norcal Level 4 State Championship in beam and bars events and the 2013 USA Gymnastics Norcal Level 5 State Championship in vault and floor events
  • Ā A 2019 National Merit Scholarship Finalist and a member of the California Scholarship Federation.
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