Honors
- MVC Freshman of the Week: 9/13/21, 9/27/21
- CSC Academic All-District: 2024
- Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll: 2024-25
- MVC Academic Honor Roll: 2021-22, 2023-24
- MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll: Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Senior (2025) (Beach Volleyball)
Played all 28 matches…Posted a 17-10 record with one match not finishing…Played every match alongside Maddie Schrandt…Went 16-10 at Flight No. 3 and 1-0 at Flight No. 4…Started season on nine-match winning streak in which all nine wins were straight-set sweeps…Made CUSA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.
Senior (2024) (Indoor)/Career Summary
MoState’s starting setter for a fourth consecutive season...Ranked third in the MVC with a 9.42 assist average with 1,140 total helpers...Had 21 assist-dig double-doubles...Ended career ranked third in school history with 4,078 career assists, 13th with 1,268 digs, and eighth with 62 double-figure dig matches...One of three players in school history with 3,000 assists and 1,000 digs, and the only player with 4,000 assists and 1,250 digs.
Junior (2023) (Indoor)
Served as the Bears’ primary setter for much of the year while also filling in at outside hitter...Dished out 825 assists for a 7.11 per set average, ending the year ranked fifth in school history with 2,938 career assists...Second on the team with 330 digs and a 2.84 average...Had 69 kills, 17 aces and 38 total blocks on the year...Posted a career-high 11 kills while playing outside hitter against Central Michigan (9/10)...Tallied 17 assist-dig double-doubles, including 11 consecutively to end the season...Reached 20 digs in two matches, scooping 24 versus Illinois State (11/19) and 23 at Valparaiso (9/22)...Had eight matches with at least 40 assists and a high of 51 at Indiana State (10/28).
Sophomore (2022) (Indoor)
Started every match and played all 121 sets for the Bears...Ranked sixth in MVC and 47th nationally with 1,146 total assists...Finished season ranked 11th in MSU history with 2,113 career assists...Posted 53 assists and 20 digs at Indiana State (10/7), the first 50-20 game at MSU since 2017...Had 12 assist-dig double-doubles on the year...Scooped a career-high 21 digs against Murray State (10/14)...Tallied season-high seven kills against Kansas City (9/16)...Reached 40 assists in 13 matches and 50-plus five times with a high of 57 against UIC (10/22)...Ended the year with 69 kills on .237 hitting, a team-best 32 aces, 300 digs and 56 blocks.
Freshman (2021) (Indoor)
Appeared in every match with 26 starts...Dished out 967 assists with a 9.12 average, ranking third in the MVC in average...Posted 11 assist-dig double-doubles on the season...Had seven consecutive matches with 45-plus assists from Sept. 18-Oct. 9, scooping at least 10 digs in five of those...Handed out 50 or more assists twice - 56 versus Drake (10/9) and 51 against Valparaiso (9/25)...Eclipsed 40 assists on 10 occasions...Season high of 19 came in the finale versus Evansville (11/20)...Hit .231 on the year with 48 total kills...Served 24 aces to rank second on the squad and had 44 total blocks.
Background
Joined Missouri State beach volleyball after playing with Missouri State indoor volleyball...Four-year starter as a setter and right side hitter for Parkway South High, serving as a team captain her junior and senior seasons...Led the Patriots to their first district playoff victory in more than a decade to cap off her senior season and was an all-conference and all-district selection each of her final three years.
Personal
Morgan Sprague was born on 6/2/2003 in St. Louis, Missouri...Daughter of Don and Sherrie Sprague...Sister, Sheridan, played softball at Maryville, and brother, Nick, played football at Southeast Missouri State...Majoring in sports medicine.
Updated: 5/23/2025
