AWARDS:
NCAA Elite 90 Award recipient – 2019
WCC All-Academic first team – 2018, 19
Dean’s List (Seaver College) – 2018
Pepperdine Athletics Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year – 2018
Pepperdine Scholar-Athlete – 2017, 18
WCC Commissioner’s Honor Roll ‘gold’ honors – 2017, 18
PEPPERDINE BEACH CAREER: Played in 56 total matches after three seasons with the beach program … Totaled a 29-27 overall record, with a 15-10 record in the No. 4 spot and a 14-12 record in the No. 5 position.
PEPPERDINE BEACH 2019: Played in 30 total matches during her senior campaign, collecting a 15-15 overall record for the Waves … Amassed a 15-10 record in the No. 4 position, a 0-4 record in the No. 3 spot and an 0-1 record from the No. 2 position … Posted three clinching wins for the team … Helped the Waves to a second-straight NCAA Tournament berth and a 7th place finish overall.
PEPPERDINE BEACH 2018: Played in the No. 5 position, collecting a 14-12 overall record for the Waves, including a 13-5 record when playing alongside partner Nikki Lyons ... Posted a 35-27 record by sets … Clinched six wins for Pepperdine and helped the team to a NCAA Championship fifth place finish and a third-consecutive West Coast Conference championship crown … Won 11-matches by straight-set decisions.
PEPPERDINE BEACH 2017: Did not see any action on the sand in 2017.
PEPPERDINE INDOOR 2016: Began her career as a Wave with the indoor squad in 2016 … Started in six matches, while playing in 24 total … In 65 sets played setting for the team, she amassed 222 assists, averaging 3.42 assists/set … She also tabbed three service aces and tallied a .941 serving percentage, while adding 108 total digs to average 1.66 digs/set … Had a season-high 25 assists against Lipscomb at home (8/26) and tabbed 18 digs against Rhode Island at home (8/26) … Picked up one ace on three separate occasions, vs. Rhode Island (8/26) and LMU (9/24) and at Long Beach State (9/10).
NOTRE DAME (2015): Lettered two seasons at Notre Dame … Played in 30 matches and started in 29 during her sophomore campaign … In 109 total sets, averaged 8.58 assists/set (935), 1.95 digs/set (213), 0.43 blocks/set (47 Bas), 0.20 aces/set (22) and 0.29 kills/set (32) in 2015 … Tabbed 77.5 total points, while averaging 0.71 points/set.
NOTRE DAME (2014): Played in 26 matches and earned 13 starts as a setter for Notre Dame in freshman season … Finished second on the team in assists (450) and assists/set (6.00), third in digs/set (2.08) and fourth in digs (156) … Led or tied for the team lead in assists 13 times, service aces five times and digs twice … Tabbed a career-high 54 assists and three blocks against Wake Forest on Nov. 14 … Tabbed a career-best four kills twice, against Boston College on Nov. 2 and at Duke on Nov. 16 … Tallied a career-high 15 digs against Louisville on Nov. 9 and at Duke on Nov. 16 … Earned a team-high six double-doubles … Named to ACC Academic Honor Roll.
USA/CLUB VOLLEYBALL: Led the USA Volleyball Youth National Team as the setter and a team captain to a bronze medal in the junior women’s division of the High Performance Championships … Also played with Vision Volleyball Club and was a team captain on every team since the age of 13 …
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Valley Christian High School in 2014 … Earned four letters in volleyball and one in track and field … Selected as the Female Athlete of the Year for VCHS as a senior … Named UnderArmour honorable mention All-American as a setter in both junior and senior campaigns … Garnered stats as PrepVolleyball’s No. 55 Senior Ace in 2013 … Named All-West Catholic League first team as a senior and earned a spot on the Santa Barbara Tournament of Champions All-Tournament Team … Led the team to a West Catholic Athletic League Championship after posting a perfect 6-0 record … Named a PrepVolleyball Top-50 junior recruit and to Mercury News and All-League first team as a junior … Helped team to a Central Coast Section championship and finished as runner-up in Northern California … Earned All-League second team and team MVP honors as a sophomore … In freshman campaign, garnered Valley Christian High School’s Freshman of the Year … Scholar-athlete for four consecutive years … Named to honor roll all four years at VCHS.
PERSONAL: Majoring in Sports Administration at Pepperdine … Daughter of Trent and Cassandra Dilfer … Born in Fresno, Calif. and grew up in Saratoga, Calif. … Has two siblings, Tori, Delaney … Father, Trent, is an ESPN NFL Analyst and played football at Fresno State … He later won a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens in his 14-year NFL career … Mother, Cassandra, swam at Fresno State and was coaches under Olympic swimming mentor Teri McKeever … Her aunt, Tegan Lynch, played volleyball at Colorado, grandfather Frank Lynch, played football at California, grandfather John Franzman, played baseball at Arizona, and uncle Taylor Fransman, pole vaulted at Fresno State … Was a student leader for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), a chapel coordinator for the Associated Student Body, a star tender for the Shining Stars Respite for students with special needs, a children’s Sunday School volunteer at Calvary Church, a home builder for Club Dust mission trips to Mexico, a volunteer for the 2nd Mile San Francisco Bay Area community betterment program and a ‘big buddy’ for the Valley Christian High School Little Warier Nation group that mentored elementary aged children.
FAVORITES: Her father, Trent Dilfer, and Steph Curry (pro athletes) … San Francisco Giants (pro team) … The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (book) … Frozen (movie) … Hawai’i Five-O and Gossip Girl (TV shows) … Sam Hunt and FFH (musical artists) … sushi (food) … football, baseball and swimming (sports other than volleyball).
