Biography
Honors: Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022)...MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22)...MVC Academic Honor Roll (2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22)
Senior/Career Summary
• Played in six matches and nine sets as a fifth-year senior
• Finished final season with 28 assists, 12 digs, one kill and one ace
• Ended career with 968 assists, 250 digs, 35 aces and 26 kills with a .308 hitting percentage in 69 matches
Senior (2020-21)
• Missed the 2020-21 season with a knee injury
Junior (2019)
• Appeared in all but one match on the year and started 10 in MSU’s 6-2 offense
• Finished second on the team with 503 assists
• Had only one hitting error on the year in 40 attempts, and reached 53 career attempts before her first and only error in two full seasons
• Had 20-plus assists in 12 matches, including 10 times in the season’s final 12 contests
• Served 18 aces against 15 errors, keeping her career ratio positive at 34:22
• Career high of 31 assists came in back-to-back matches versus Evansville (10/19) and at Southern Illinois (10/21)
• Dished out 30 assists at Drake (11/1)
• Posted her first three career double-doubles in succession from Nov. 9-16 against Valpo, Evansville and Indiana State, with a high of 12 digs coming against VU (11/9)
Sophomore (2018)
• Missed the 2018 season with a knee injury
Freshman (2017)
• Played a key role in MSU’s 6-2 offense, appearing in 32 matches and 98 sets with 10 starts at setter
• Averaged 4.46 assists and 1.08 digs per set
• Helped set the Bears to a .247 team hitting percentage, second-best in school history
• Served 16 aces against just seven errors
• Hit .471 with 16 kills on 34 attempts without an error
• Season high of 26 assists came against NCAA-bound Washington State (9/15), while season best of nine digs came versus No. 8 Washington (9/8)
• Handed out at least 20 assists in seven matches
• Served multiple aces on five occasions
Background
• Member of three state championship teams, starting at setter her final two seasons at Lafayette High
• Averaged 10.91 assists per set as a senior, earning first-team all-state and PrepVolleyball High Honorable Mention All-America honors
• Also a first-team all-region, all-district, and all-conference pick her senior year
• Three-time academic all-state selection
Personal
• Born July 7, 1998, in St. Louis, Mo.
• Daughter of Chuck and Malin Orlando
• Graduated cum laude with a psychology degree in May 2021 and is working toward her master’s in applied behavior analysis
• Parents both played sports at Indiana State - father was on the football team, mother played tennis
