Pepperdine University Athletics

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: Lettered one season at SMU as a libero under Lisa Seifert in the American Athletic Conference … She was top-five on the SMU leaderboard in 2017 in aces, digs and assists and ranked 5^th in the AAC in aces/set … Posted 245 digs (2.17/set), 25 assists and 18 aces in 113 sets and 31 matches of action as a true freshman … Helped SMU to a 21-11 overall record and a 15-5 AAC record towards a second place finish in the conference … Maintained a 3.5 grade point average.

CLUB/USA: Played for Goldenwest Volleyball Club from 2015-17 and Orlando Volleyball Academic from 2011-15 … Was team captain and an MVP for GVC … Helped her teams to the qualifier at Junior Open’s on six separate occasions … Three-time National Champion with titles with AAU’s 2013 and 2014 teams and at the Junior Olympics in 2013 … Played for USAV Girls Youth National A2 Team in 2013 and USAV Team Florida High Performance All-Star Team in 2014 … Earned a spot on the USAV GJNC All-Tournament Team in 2017 and was a six-time qualifier for USAV Nationals from 2011-17 … Three-time National Champion with GJNC 2012, AAU 2012 and 2013 titles … Also earned a spot on the AVCA Phenom List in 2014 and 2015.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, Calif. in 2017 … Also attended Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando, Fla. from 2013-15 … Lettered three sesaons under Tanya Jarvis and Dave Huber as a libero in the Sunset League at LAHS … Was team captain in her senior season, while earning SoCal Long Beach Press and Telegram Dream Team Libero first team honors in 2017 … Also earned Sunset League All-Academic honors in 2017 and was a Top Scholar Team Award recipient in 2017 … In 2016, she earned Sunset League All-Academic honors and a spot on the Top Scholar Team Award list … Helped her team to Bishop Moore HS Champions in 2014 and helped LAHS to Sunset League runner-up status in 2016 …. Was also a member of the National Honor Society, was an AP Scholar and was on the Principal’s Honor Roll from 2013-17.

PERSONAL: Daughter of James and Emily DiBona … Has two siblings Ellen and Hannah … Plans to major in Creative Writing at Pepperdine with career aspirations of becoming a writer or working in the entertainment industry … Her sister Hannah ran track for Pepperdine and her father Jason played football and rugby at University of Central Florida … Stated an interesting thing she experienced was going to the Tony Awards show and seeing her great uncle’s musical HAIR win the Tony for “Best Revival of a Musical.”

FAVORITES: Her favorite thing about volleyball is how intense and high energy the sport can be, “I love the sport for the crazy saves and the long rallies that you get to experience with your teammates” … The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare (book) … Clueless (movie) … New Girl (TV show) … Lorde (musical artist) … Pad Thai (food) … soccer (sport other than volleyball) … reading and playing the guitar (hobbies/pastimes).