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Jersey Number 12
Rossana Papa
- Height:
- 5-11
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Brescia, Italy
Honors: Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025)...MVC Academic Honor Roll (2023-24)
Senior/Career Summary
• Only Bear to play in every set during the 2025 season
• Averaged 5.40 assists and 1.47 digs per set
• Had a pair of assist-dig double-doubles as a senior, with season highs of six kills, 45 assists and 13 digs coming against CUSA co-champion Western Kentucky (10/3)
• Ended career with 148 sets played in 46 matches, 29 kills, 779 assists and 230 digs
Junior (2024)
• Missouri State’s backup setter, seeing time in 17 matches and 38 sets
• Dished out 185 assists (4.85/set) and had 68 digs (1.79/set)
• Made one start, handing out 45 assists with nine digs and four aces against SIUE (9/21)
• Tallied double digit assists in seven matches, including 33 in a win over SEMO (9/20)
• Had a season-high 11 digs at Bradley (11/8)
Background
• Spent three seasons at Cowley College in Arkansas City, Kan., prior to coming to Missouri State
• NJCAA Division 2 National Player of the Year in 2023
• Received the 2023-24 Betty Jo Graber Award, given annually to the NJCAA Female Student-Athlete of the Year
• Guided Cowley to a 41-0 record and national title in 2023 and earned MVP honors at the national tournament
• Led the nation with 1,536 total assists and a 12.09 per set average in 2023
• Ranked 12th nationally with 85 aces in 2023 and set Cowley’s career record with 180
• Consensus first-team All-American in 2023, adding 297 digs and 48 blocks with a .323 attack efficiency
• As a freshman in 2021, led the nation in assist average (11.84/set) and ranked third in total assists with 1,539 while helping Cowley to a 41-1 record and national runner-up finish
• Hit .395 that season with 56 kills, 268 digs, 41 blocks and 95 aces on the way to earning All-America honors from the NJCAA (First Team), AVCA (Second Team) and Volleyball Magazine.
Personal
• Born January 16, 2002 in Brescia, Italy
• Daughter of Roberto and Roberta Papa
• Working towards a physics degree
Senior/Career Summary
• Only Bear to play in every set during the 2025 season
• Averaged 5.40 assists and 1.47 digs per set
• Had a pair of assist-dig double-doubles as a senior, with season highs of six kills, 45 assists and 13 digs coming against CUSA co-champion Western Kentucky (10/3)
• Ended career with 148 sets played in 46 matches, 29 kills, 779 assists and 230 digs
Junior (2024)
• Missouri State’s backup setter, seeing time in 17 matches and 38 sets
• Dished out 185 assists (4.85/set) and had 68 digs (1.79/set)
• Made one start, handing out 45 assists with nine digs and four aces against SIUE (9/21)
• Tallied double digit assists in seven matches, including 33 in a win over SEMO (9/20)
• Had a season-high 11 digs at Bradley (11/8)
Background
• Spent three seasons at Cowley College in Arkansas City, Kan., prior to coming to Missouri State
• NJCAA Division 2 National Player of the Year in 2023
• Received the 2023-24 Betty Jo Graber Award, given annually to the NJCAA Female Student-Athlete of the Year
• Guided Cowley to a 41-0 record and national title in 2023 and earned MVP honors at the national tournament
• Led the nation with 1,536 total assists and a 12.09 per set average in 2023
• Ranked 12th nationally with 85 aces in 2023 and set Cowley’s career record with 180
• Consensus first-team All-American in 2023, adding 297 digs and 48 blocks with a .323 attack efficiency
• As a freshman in 2021, led the nation in assist average (11.84/set) and ranked third in total assists with 1,539 while helping Cowley to a 41-1 record and national runner-up finish
• Hit .395 that season with 56 kills, 268 digs, 41 blocks and 95 aces on the way to earning All-America honors from the NJCAA (First Team), AVCA (Second Team) and Volleyball Magazine.
Personal
• Born January 16, 2002 in Brescia, Italy
• Daughter of Roberto and Roberta Papa
• Working towards a physics degree
Baseball Postgame at Kennesaw State (5/21/26)
Friday, May 22
Baseball Postgame at Kennesaw State (5/16/26)
Saturday, May 16
Baseball Postgame at Kennesaw State (5/15/26)
Saturday, May 16
Baseball Postgame at Kennesaw State (5/14/26)
Friday, May 15
