2025 Women's Volleyball Roster
Roster
Vanessa Polk
- Height:
- 6-2
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Saint Louis, Mo.
- High School:
- John Burroughs School
PEPPERDINE 2025 (Redshirt Junior)
Redshirted for the 2024 season...
PEPPERDINE 2024 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Redshirted for the 2024 season...
PEPPERDINE 2023 (Sophomore)
Started in 27 out of 28 matches played, totaling 90 sets played … Tallied 136 kills, 76 blocks, and 35 digs … Averaged one block per set, and posted 13 solo rejections … Posted a season high 11 kills against Liberty (9/10) … Led the team in blocks in nine matches... All-WCC Honorable Mention... CSC Academic All-District First Team... WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention... WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll 'silver honors'... Pepperdine Scholar Athlete...
PEPPERDINE 2022 (Freshman)
Appeared in 29 out of the 30 Waves matches, and started 28 during her freshman debut … Lead the team in blocks, totaling 118 … Posted a season-best eight blocks against San Francisco (10/29) ... Tallied 143 kills on a .217 clip … Lead the team in blocks per set, averaging 1.19... WCC All-Freshman Team... WCC Commissioner's Honor Roll 'silver honors'... Pepperdine Scholar Athlete...
Played for Momentum Volleyball Club for three years and Rockwood Thunder Volleyball Club for five years … Finished third at the 18 Open and helped her team win the Boston Volleyfest qualifier...
HIGH SCHOOL
Graduated from John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Mo. in 2022 … Lettered four years on varsity playing every position for JBS in the Metro League … Throughout her career, tabbed 1,164 kills, 200 blocks, 700 digs and 180 aces … In her senior campaign, marked Metro League Player of the Year and All-Metro League honors … Also garnered All-State and All-District first team acclaim … Earned a spot on the AVCA Best and Brightest first team in 2021 after breaking the JBS career kills school record … Also garnered All-Metro League and All-District second team honors in basketball in 2018, 2019 and 2020...
PERSONAL
Majoring in Political Science at Pepperdine and has aspirations to become an agent for professional athletes … Also hopes to attend the Caruso School of Law after completing her undergraduate degree … Daughter of Mallory and Preston Polk … Has three siblings: Marcus, Mason and Charlotte...
FAVORITES
Stephen Curry (pro athlete) … It Ends with Us (book) … Get Out (movie) … Stranger Things (tv show) … Giveon (musical artist) … Sweet Potato Fries (food) … basketball or football (sports other than volleyball) … photography, painting and hanging out with friends (hobbies/pastimes)...
