Honors
• 2010 Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)
• 2009 Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)
• 2009 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year Nominee
• 2007 Blue Springs South Team Most Valuable Player
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Year
MP/MS
SP
K
E
TA
H%
A
SA
D
BS
TB
PTS
2008
30-21
115
2
0
5
.400
25
8
250
0
0
10.0
2009
33-17
108
0
0
3
.000
15
11
256
0
0
11.0
2010
33-14
119
0
0
2
.000
27
17
281
1
0
18.0
2011
34-34
127
3
3
12
.000
86
22
494
0
1
25.5
Career
130-86
469
5
3
22
.091
153
58
1,281
1
1
64.5
2011
Finishes her Tiger career tied for the most matches played in a career and is in the top 10 in both career digs and digs per set at Mizzou ... Academic All-Big 12 ... Tallied 13 digs in the Tigers' NCAA Tournament first round loss to No. 17 Florida ... Pulled in 12 digs in the Tigers' win over Texas Tech and pitched in a team-best two service aces in that match ... Tallied a team-best 15 digs in the Tigers' loss to No. 9 Texas ... Collected 12 digs in the Tigers' loss at Texas A&M ... Pulled in 12 digs in the Tigers' four-set loss to No. 13 Iowa State ... Pulled in 23 digs - her second-best total of the season - in the Tigers' four-set win over Baylor ... Became the fifth Tiger in program history to eclipse the 400-dig mark in a season with 16 at Kansas ... Posted 15 digs in the Tigers' sweep of No. 21 while converting all of her service receptions ... Tallied a season-best 25 digs in the Tigers' loss at Kansas State ... Dished three assists and added an ace as well ... Pulled in a team-high five digs at No. 10 Texas ... Tallied 14 digs in the Tigers' sweep of Central Arkansas ... Pulled in 17 digs in the Tigers' four-set win over Texas Tech ... Collected 23 digs in the Tigers' four-set win over Kansas ... Pulled in 22 digs in the Tigers' five-set loss at Baylor ... Tallied 18 digs in the Tigers' five-set loss at No. 22 Oklahoma and converted all 32 of her service receptions ... Pulled in 18 digs against Kansas State as she cracked the all-time top 10 at Mizzou in career digs ... Tallied her 1,000th career dig at Texas A&M after pulling in a career-best 25 in the match while converting all but one service reception .... Became just the 11th Tiger in program history to eclipse the 1,000-career dig mark ... Had a team-high 11 digs at No. 16 Iowa State ... Pulled in 45 digs at the American Classic ... Tallied 51 digs in four matches at the Denver Pioneer Classic, including a season-high 19 against UTSA ... Pulled in a team-best 58 digs while converting 57 of 58 service receptions in five matches at Middle Tennessee, including a 17-dig outing against Austin Peay, a season-high ... Led the Tigers with 44 digs on the weekend as she averaged 3.67 per set, a mark that ranks her eighth in the Big 12 ... Also converted 53 of 54 service receptions, good for a serve receive percentage of .981 at the Tiger Invitational ... The matches were her first four at the libero position.
2010
Started 14 matches while playing in all 33 contests for the Tigers as a back-row specialist and pulled in 281 digs, good for fourth on the team, trailing three six-rotation players ... Her 281 digs and 2.36 digs per set were both career-bests in 2010 ... Was the Tigers' best passer in the back row, boasting a service reception percentage of .972 ... In fact, she was perfect on 182 chances in her final 17 regular season matches ... She also boasted a .990 service reception percentage against Big 12 competition on the season ... Had 13 matches with double-digit dig totals in 2010 ... Finished the season with 17 service aces as well and tallied 18.0 total points on the year ... She also dished 27 assists on the year ... Had a season-high 14 digs at Colorado (11/3) ... Her season-best ace total came at home against Iowa State (9/18) when she had three ... Dished four assists at home against Texas Tech (11/10) as well ... Was an Academic All-Big 12 selection for the second time in her career in 2010.
2009
Ranked second on the team with 256 digs on the season, trailing only libero Caitlyn Vann ... Started 17 matches for the Tigers while playing in 108 of 110 possible sets ... Led the team with a .966 service reception percentage, committing just 12 errors on 354 total chances ... Had a career match at Kansas State (10/14), pulling in 24 total digs while committing only one serve receive error on a career-best 25 total attempts ... Joined libero Caitlyn Vann as the only two Tigers to pull in at least 20 digs in two separate matches during the season, doing so at Kansas State and at home against Texas A&M (9/26), pulling in 21 in the five-set comeback win ... Hit double figures in digs in six additional matches, highlighted by a 14-dig effort at Utah Valley (9/5) ... Corralled 13 digs in the Tigers' four-set win at Kansas (10/24) and pulled in 12 against BYU (8/29) ... Posted 11 digs at Colorado (11/14) and 10 against VCU (9/11) at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge ... Was perfect in serve receive in 21 matches during the season, highlighted by a stretch of eight-straight matches, starting with a home title against Nebraska (10/16) and ending with a three-set sweep of Oklahoma (11/11) at the Hearnes Center ... Was perfect on 72 chances in that span, 23 of which came in the match at home against Nebraska, a total that was second only to her 25 at Kansas State ... Pitched in 11 service aces and 15 assists on the season ... Earned her second varsity letter with the Tigers.
2008
Played in 30 matches for the Tigers while earning starts in 21 of those matches and playing in all 115 sets as a defensive specialist ... Finished the season with 250 total digs to rank fourth on the team in that category and totaled 167 of those digs during Big 12 play ... Season- and career-best dig total came at Oklahoma (9/17) when she tallied 19 in her first-ever Big 12 match ... Posted 10 or more digs in 12 of her 30 matches and hit the 15-dig mark in three of those matches - vs. St. John's (15), at Texas A&M (15) and at Oklahoma (19) ... Had 14 digs in the season-finale against Texas A&M (11/28) and had 13 at BYU (8/30) ... Had a .959 service reception percentage while committing just 16 errors on 387 total attempts, a mark that was tops among players with 50 or more reception chances ... Pitched in 25 assists, eight service aces, two kills and accounted for 10.0 total points en-route to her first varsity letter.
High School
Three-year letterwinner for the Blue Springs South Jaguars ... During her senior season she was named all-conference, all-district, all-area and all-region and was named team MVP for her role as the team's setter ... Earned all-conference and all-district honors her sophomore and junior years ... High school coach - Carmen Johnson ... Invasion Club team finished fifth in the nation in the 18-and-under open division at the USA Volleyball Junior Olympic National Championships ... Club coach - Marvin Forbes.
Personal
Daughter of Ponci and Angie Armendariz ... Has been playing volleyball since the age of nine ... Sister, Alexa, is 12 and plays volleyball ... Cites support from her family in being paramount to her volleyball career as they have never missed a match ... Besides volleyball, she loves to eat pizza, dance and make new friends ... Her career goal is to work in the health care field upon graduation ... Held a 4.00 grade-point-average throughout high school ... Nickname is "Pip" ... Born March 20, 1990, in Independence, Mo.
