Kate Isaksen - Women's Volleyball - Clarkson University Athletics

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17 Kate Isaksen

Position Libero
Height 5-10
Class Senior
Highschool Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake
Hometown Glenville, NY

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2019: Became program's first three-time "named" team All-American, earning AVCA Second-Team All-American status...Also chosen as AVCA New York Region First-Team All-Star and Liberty League First-Team All-Star...Also chosen as the ECAC Division III Defensive Player of the Year for the third consecutive season and as an ECAC Division III First-Team All-Star...CoSIDA Academic All-American Third-Team and CoSIDA Academic All-District 3...Collected 728 digs (6.07 dps) to become ninth player in NCAA Division III history to surpass 3000 career digs, and the only such student-athlete to have played their entire career in the 25-points per set era...Concluded career with 3217 digs and 6.60 dps, the seventh and ninth highest figures in NCAA Division III history, again as the only one to do so entirely in the 25-points per set era...Finished 12th in the country in digs per set and eighth in total digs...Also finished third on the team in assists (82, 0.68 per set) and aces (44, 0.37 per set)...Picked as the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Division III Volleyball Potsdam Regional...Recorded season-high 37 digs to go along with three aces in Potsdam Regional Final against Ithaca College (11/17/2019)...Also had 33 digs in Liberty League Championship match versus Ithaca College (11/9/2019)...Surpassed 30 digs on two other occasions, producing 34 digs with three assists and three aces against SUNY Geneseo (10/19/2019) and 30 digs with four assists versus Franklin & Marshall (9/7/219)...Scored one of the highest reception percentages in the country at .978 with only 11 reception errors in 497 attempts...Chosen as ECAC Division III North Defensvie Player of the Month for both September and October for the second straight year...Picked Liberty League Performer of the Week on three occasions (9/9, 10/28, 11/18)...Named North Country Invitational Most Valuable Player and selected to Clarkson Invitational All-Tournament team, Oswego State All-Tournament team, and Colorado College All-Tournament team...Liberty League All-Academic.

2018: Enjoyed historic junior season, becoming program's first AVCA First-Team All-American...Named AVCA New York Region Player of the Year and AVCA New York Region First-Team as well as Liberty League First-Team All-Star...Named the Division III ECAC Defensive Player of the Year and Division III All-ECAC...Picked for Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-American Second-Team and Google Cloud/CoSIDA Academic All-District 3 First-Team honors...Twice selected as ECAC North Division III Defensive Player of the Month (September, October)...Ranked second in NCAA Division III in digs per set (7.97), the third-highest figure at NCAA Division III since the sport changed to the 25-points per set system in 2008...Her 901 total digs led the country in 2018, the seventh-highest figure since 2008, just 32 short of the national mark...Surpassed 2000 career digs in the middle of season and currently ranks third on the active leaderboard for digs with 2489, making her the only junior in the country to rank in the top 20 and the only one with more than 2000 digs through three seasons...Her 6.86 digs per set through three collegiate seasons places her fourth all-time in that category at the national level...One of only two players to participate in all 113 sets for the Golden Knights in 2018...Posted most digs in a four-set match in all of Division III in 2018, recording 51 against Skidmore (10/20/2018)...Also had the fourth-most digs in a four-set match with 47 versus Susquehanna (9/16/2018) and fourth-most in a five-set match with 53 against SUNY Geneseo (10/26/2018), the only player to appear in the top five on both lists...Surpassed 40 digs in seven matches in 2018, and topped 30 on 15 occasions, including five down the stretch of the season, with four occurrences on the road...Also reached 46 digs in a five-set match against Brockport (9/16/2018)...Named Liberty League Performer of the Week twice (9/10/2018 and 10/22/2018) as well as to the Liberty League Honor Roll three more times...Liberty League All-Academic.

2017: Became program's 10th AVCA All-American and just the fifth player to be named to one of the top three teams, earning AVCA Third-Team All-American status...Also named AVCA New York All-Region First-Team, All-ECAC First-Team, and Liberty League First-Team all-star...Chosen as ECAC Division III Defensive Player of the Year...Excelled in classroom as well, earning CoSIDA Academic All-District 3 honors...Led the nation in digs per set (6.85) by one-fifth of a dig per game...Ranked second nationally in total digs with 753, trailing national leader by 10 who played in 18 more sets...Surpassed 30 digs in 12 matches, including 40+ twice...Season-high of 48 digs came during five-set match against Babson College during the NCAA Tournament (11/11/2017)...48 digs were the sixth-highest figure of any player in all of Division III during the 2017 season...Also had 40 digs in four-set loss to Pacific Lutheran (9/2/2017)...Recorded three straight 30+ dig matches in same weekend, hitting 31 against DeSales (10/13/2017), 39 versus Gettysburg (10/14/2017) and 37 at Muhlenberg (10/14/2017)...Also notched 37 aces, with season-high of four coming against SUNY Potsdam (10/24/2017)...Ranks second among all players in Division III in digs per set (6.35) and is 55th in total digs among active players (1588), the only sophomore to rank in the top 100 nationally...Liberty League All-Academic.

2016: One of two players to appear in all 140 sets in 37 matches for Clarkson in 2016...Liberty League Second-Team All-Star...Set single-season Clarkson mark for total digs (835) and digs per set (5.96), leading conference in both categories...835 digs were the second most in all of NCAA Division III, while her digs per set ranked 13th nationally as well...Chosen to Liberty League Championships All-Tournament team, thanks to 27 digs in championship match win over Vassar College (11/5)...Recorded 26 digs in NCAA Tournament opening round sweep of Susquehanna (11/11)...Posted season-high 42 digs against New York University (9/9) and Heidelberg (10/15)...Also surpassed 30 digs on two other occasions, reaching 33 versus Potsdam State (10/12) and 30 against Washington & Lee (10/29)...Also had 23 digs and five aces against RIT (9/16)...Picked as Liberty League Rookie of the Week on three occasions...Chosen to Emory National Tournament All-Tournament team (10/29).