Missouri State

Honors & Awards

• American Volleyball Coaches Association Top Flight Award: 2025
• Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll: 2023-24, 2024-25
• MSU Athletics Director's Honor Roll: Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025

2025
Played all 28 matches…Posted a 17-9 record with two matches not finishing…Played every match at Flight No. 1 alongside Becca Bach…Started season on a nine-match winning streak while only dropping two sets…Went undefeated in both Missouri State home tournaments while only dropping one set…Ended season with straight-set sweep against UAB’s three-time CUSA Pair of the Week of Olivia Stant and Jasmine Haas in the CUSA Tournament…Ended season with 42 career wins across two seasons to have the seventh most in program history…Won American Volleyball Coaches Association Top Flight Award…Made CUSA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

2024
Played in 32 matches…Posted a 25-6 record with one match not finishing…Played all but one match at Flight No. 4 (24-6)...Won lone match at Flight No. 5 with Olivia Rattler against Jacksonville on 3/9/34…Went 15-3 alongside Olivia Rattler…Started season on a 10-match winning streak alongside Kenzi McSpadden…Went 2-1 in Conference USA Tournament with wins against Jacksonville State and UTEP…Her 25 wins were tied for the third-most by a Bear in a single season.

Background
Joins Missouri State after playing indoor volleyball for the Bishop Carroll Golden Eagles in Wichita, Kansas…Played 161 sets and amassed 339 career kills as an outside hitter including 213 as a senior…Got 57 career service aces including 29 in her junior season…Has 497 career digs, including 292 her senior year…Had a combined team record of 80-29 across three varsity seasons… She was a second team All-City player and a two-time first team All-City player…Also played for the No Coast Beach Volleyball Club team and was part of the Shockwave club team for the indoor season.

Personal
Allyson Marie Larkin was born on 3/30/2005 in Wichita, Kansas…Daughter of Scott and Jennifer Larkin…Has two brothers, Luke and Austin…Has two sisters, Ella and Logan…Father played men’s volleyball at BYU (1992-95) and earned 1,268 career kills in 304 career games and trained with USA Men’s Volleyball.

Updated: 5/23/2025