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Jersey Number 7
Malayah Long
- Height:
- 6-1
- Class:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Hometown:
- Lincoln, Neb.
- High School:
- Lincoln Southwest
REDSHIRT FRESHMAN (2025): Played in all 113 sets across 30 matches, one of two Spartans to play in every set in 2025 ... MSU's starting setter in 29 matches ... Led the team with 983 assists and 8.70 assists per set ... Her 983 assists ranked sixth all-time for a freshman at MSU, while her 8.70 assists/set ranked seventh ... Also led the Spartans with 31 service aces and ranked third on the team with 235 digs and 2.08 digs per set ... Put up nine double-digit dig matches ... Led the team with nine double-doubles in 2025 ... Posted back-to-back double-doubles at Southern Indiana (Sept. 4) and at Western Michigan (Sept. 8) ... Provided a career-best 56 assists against the Broncos, the most by a Spartan in a single match since 2018 ... Named Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Sept. 15 after recording three-straight double-doubles in a week with wins over Western Michigan, Kennesaw State (Sept. 11) and App State (Sept. 12) ... Posted 50 assists and a career-highs in digs (16) against App State ... Totaled a career-high six total blocks at Kennesaw State ... Registered a career-high five service aces against Chicago State on Aug. 31 ... Earned her second-career Big Ten Freshman of the Week nod on Oct. 13, becoming the first Spartan to win multiple Freshman of the Week honors from the league since 2019 season and first setter to do so since 2014, after a 54-assist outing against Iowa on Oct. 10.
FRESHMAN (Marquette, 2024): Redshirt season.
PRIOR TO MARQUETTE/MSU: Led Lincoln Southwest High School to its first Nebraska Class A Championship in 2023 and earning VBallRecruiter.com’s National Senior Player of the Year ... Named the tournament’s most valuable player and a captain of the Omaha World Herald All-Nebraska First Team and Lincoln Journal Star Super State First Team ... The two-time team captain and all-state performer led the Silverhawks, under head coach Jessica Kirkendall, to four district and three Heartland Athletic Conference championships ... Recorded a school-record 1,067 career assists at Lincoln Southwest and holds program records for most assists per set and in a single season ... She also ranks in the top-10 on the school’s career aces list ... During her club career, earned MVP honors while claiming an AAU 15 Open National Championship and JVA All-National Team recognition ... She was a team captain for VCNebraska’s 18 Elite squad under head coach Blake Rawlins ... Ranked as the No. 4 recruit in the state Nebraska according to Prep Dig ... Also competed in basketball for two seasons and track & field for four years ... Ranked in the top-10 in school history in the discus throw upon graduation.
PERSONAL:Â Daughter of Mary McCauley-Long and the late Scott Long ... Has two older siblings, Connor and Alaetra ... Comes from a family of collegiate athletes ... Mother played basketball at the University of North Dakota before a professional career overseas ... Father played basketball at North Dakota State ... Sister, Alaetra, played volleyball at Eastern Connecticut State University and brother, Connor, played basketball at Doane University ... Long was a competitive dancer growing up and had the opportunity as a back-up dancer for Disney Star, Jordan Fisher ... At Lincoln Southwest, Long was very involved in Unified Programs in which she volunteered to assist those with special needs ... Also assisted school's Hope Squad as an ambassador for suicide prevention.
FRESHMAN (Marquette, 2024): Redshirt season.
PRIOR TO MARQUETTE/MSU: Led Lincoln Southwest High School to its first Nebraska Class A Championship in 2023 and earning VBallRecruiter.com’s National Senior Player of the Year ... Named the tournament’s most valuable player and a captain of the Omaha World Herald All-Nebraska First Team and Lincoln Journal Star Super State First Team ... The two-time team captain and all-state performer led the Silverhawks, under head coach Jessica Kirkendall, to four district and three Heartland Athletic Conference championships ... Recorded a school-record 1,067 career assists at Lincoln Southwest and holds program records for most assists per set and in a single season ... She also ranks in the top-10 on the school’s career aces list ... During her club career, earned MVP honors while claiming an AAU 15 Open National Championship and JVA All-National Team recognition ... She was a team captain for VCNebraska’s 18 Elite squad under head coach Blake Rawlins ... Ranked as the No. 4 recruit in the state Nebraska according to Prep Dig ... Also competed in basketball for two seasons and track & field for four years ... Ranked in the top-10 in school history in the discus throw upon graduation.
PERSONAL:Â Daughter of Mary McCauley-Long and the late Scott Long ... Has two older siblings, Connor and Alaetra ... Comes from a family of collegiate athletes ... Mother played basketball at the University of North Dakota before a professional career overseas ... Father played basketball at North Dakota State ... Sister, Alaetra, played volleyball at Eastern Connecticut State University and brother, Connor, played basketball at Doane University ... Long was a competitive dancer growing up and had the opportunity as a back-up dancer for Disney Star, Jordan Fisher ... At Lincoln Southwest, Long was very involved in Unified Programs in which she volunteered to assist those with special needs ... Also assisted school's Hope Squad as an ambassador for suicide prevention.
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