2019 Volleyball Roster
Roster
Meredith Norris
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Corunna
- Hometown:
- Corunna, Mich.
CAREER CAPSULE: 2020-21 Team Captain ... Earned her undergraduate Kinesiology degree in December 2020 and began pursuing her master's in the same subject ... Three-time Academic All-Big Ten Selection and two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar ... Appeared in 81 career matches, averaging 2.0 kills, 1.9 digs, 0.20 service aces, and 0.20 blocks per frame.
Collegiate Honors
Spring 2021 Team Captain
Academic All-Big Ten (2018, 2019, 2020)
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2020, 2021)
College of Charleston All-Tournament Team
Spartan Invitational All-Tournament Team
SENIOR (Spring 2021): Big Ten Distinguished Scholar ... Academic All-Big Ten ... In a Covid-altered season, appeared in 14 of 15 matches and 43 sets overall ... Contributed 1.3 kills and 1.9 digs per set, playing as both a six-rotation player and defensive specialist ... Averaged 1.83 kills and 2.67 digs per set in the Minnesota series (1/23-24) ... Had seven kills, four aces, four digs in the Wisconsin series (2/20-21), with all four aces (a career best) in the second meeting ... Started both matches against Penn State (3/19-20), posting 14 kills, an ace, seven digs, and two blocks ... Averaged 2.14 kills, 0.39 assists, 2.00 digs, and added three blocks in the series at Iowa (3/26-27) ... In the Rutgers series (4/2-3), averaged 3.33 digs per set and added four assists and four kills.
JUNIOR (2019): Academic All-Big Ten ... Appeared in 28 matches and 102 sets ... Led MSU with 3.17 points per set, averaging 2.67 kills and 2.00 digs as a six-rotation player ... Led MSU with 25 service aces (0.25/s) and added two double-doubles on the year ... Held a .953 reception percentage as the opponent’s top target (727 chances) ... Added 0.44 blocks per set with eight solo stuffs ... All-Tournament Team at the College of Charleston Classic, averaging 5.57 kills, hitting .393, and adding 2.57 digs per set (8/30-31) ... Earned All-Tournament Team honors in the Spartan Invitational (9/6-7), averaging a team-best 2.92 kills and 2.20 digs per set, adding five blocks and eight service aces ... Led MSU with 11 kills and added two blocks and nine digs vs. Oakland (9/12) ... Five kills, a career-best five blocks, and nine digs vs. UNC (9/15) ... Led the Spartans with 10 kills and added six digs at Penn State (9/28) ... Delivered seven kills and nine digs in a home sweep of Maryland (9/28) ... Averaged 3.5 kills and 2.0 dig per set in the OSU/Maryland road weekend (10/4-5), with a double-double in College Park (17 kills, 12 digs) ... Led MSU with 11 kills and added nine digs against Nebraska (10/11), and missed a double-double again with 15 kills, eight digs, two blocks (one solo) and an ace at Iowa (10/13) ... Led the Spartans with 11 kills and added nine digs and an ace in a sweep of Rutgers (10/18) ... Had nine kills and four digs against Penn State (10/20) ... Delivered 11 kills and six digs with an ace against Wisconsin (10/25) ... Nine kills and six digs against Minnesota (10/27), adding an ace and an assist ... Six kills and six digs at Northwestern (11/1) ... Posted five kills and three digs at Illinois (11/2) ... Delivered nine kills, two assists, eight digs and four blocks at Michigan (11/6) ... Had nine kills, nine digs, a season-best five blocks, and an ace in a home win over Northwestern (11/9) ... Four kills and six digs against Nebraska (11/13) ... Had seven digs, five kills, and a pair of assists at Wisconsin (11/16) ... Delivered seven kills, seven digs, and a pair of aces in a five-setter against Michigan (11/20) ... Had five kills, four digs, and two blocks at Indiana (11/24) ... Had eight kills, eight digs, a pair of solo blocks, and hit .319 in a five-setter with Purdue (11/29) ... Posted six kills, hit .308, and added 10 digs and an ace in the season finale vs. Indiana (11/30).
SOPHOMORE (2018): Appeared in 56 sets on the year over 26 matches ... Posted 1.62 kills, 1.55 digs, and 0.25 aces per set ... Averaged 2.08 kills per set and 3.08 digs per frame in the Tennessee Classic (8/24-25), including a career-best 12 kills vs. Chattanooga and 17 digs vs. Belmont ... Contributed 2.09 kills per set on .391 hitting, with 1.55 digs, 0.45 aces, and 0.45 assists in the four matches at the Fairfield Invitational (9/7-8), with a weekend-best 10 kills against Harvard ... Delivered a career-best 13 kills in the finale of the Spartan Invitational (9/14-15) vs. Western Michigan, and added a seven-dig, eight-kill performance vs. UAB ... Credited with three digs and two assists in two sets at Iowa (9/21) ... Contributed eight kills, two aces, six digs, and four blocks (a career-best three solo) against Rutgers (9/29).
WITH USA VOLLEYBALL (Summer 2018): Selected for the USA Volleyball Collegiate National Team - Detroit and completed a 10-day training session and exhibition games at the Girls Junior National Championships.
FRESHMAN (2017): Appeared in 13 matches ... Averaged 1.50 kills, 1.89 digs, and 0.44 blocks per set ... Made her collegiate debut in the opener vs. Furman (8/25), recording three kills, hit .600, and had six digs and a pair of blocks ... Closed the Georgia Tech Invite with seven kills (hitting .462) an ace, five digs, and a block vs. the host Yellow Jackets (8/26) ... Compiled five kills, hit .364, and added seven digs and two assists vs. Central Michigan (9/16) ... In the finale of the Shamrock Invitational, had six kills and six digs vs. Southern Illinois (9/16) ... Posted three kills, an assist, a pair of aces, and three digs at Rutgers (10/14) ... Two kills on four swings, an assist, and a dig as MSU swept Northwestern (11/11) ... Came in as a serving sub in the regular-season finale at Indiana (11/25).
CLUB: 2016 AVCA/ Under Armour First Team All-American ... Under Armour All-American game participant at the 2016 NCAA Final Four ... No. 25 on the Prep Volleyball list of Senior Aces ... A Top 50 Junior, Sophomore 79, and Freshman 59 pick by Prep Volleyball ... Max Preps, Prep Volleyball and USA Today 2016 pre-season All-American ... AVCA Phenom in 2013, 2014 and 2015 ... 2017 Detroit Athletic Club High School Athlete of the Year finalist ... Competed in the USAV HP program in five of the last six summers, including Holiday A1 camp as a Select level athlete ... In 2016, led USAV A1 level Women’s Junior Team to a silver medal in the HP Championships, where she was named to the All Tournament team in the Women’s International Division ... Played under club director Vince Muscat at Michigan Elite ... Finished eighth at AAU Nationals with her U17 squad in the summer of 2016, after a 10th-place finish the year prior ... Three-time qualifier for USAV Nationals Open Division, Four-time AAU state championship ... Named to the Sports Performance Presidents Day All-Tournament Team ... Three-time JVA Watch List selection ... Two-time JVA All Nation Team ... PrepVolleyball.com First Team Club All-American in 2015.
HIGH SCHOOL: 2107 Michigan Miss Volleyball and 2016 finalist for the same honor .... Four year team captain and MVP at Corunna ... Recorded more than 3,000 kills and graduated with school records in kills, digs, and aces ... Helped Corunna to three district championships (2013, 2014, 2016) ... First Team All-Conference, All-Region, All-Area selection in each of her first three high school seasons ... Class B First Team All-State pick in 2014 and 2015 ... Three-time Lansing State Journal Dream Team selection (2014-16) and the paper’s Player of the Year selection in 2015 ... Argus-Press Player of the Year in 2015 ... MaxPreps High School All-American in 2015 ... Set a Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) record with 56 kills vs. Goodrich in the 2015 District finals a year after notching 53 kills over the same school, also in the District finals, in 2014 ... Owns four of the top five spots in single-match kills in state history.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Dr. Robert and Nicole Norris ... Father is a 1997 graduate of the MSU College of Human Medicine and is a team physician for the MSU athletic department, while her mother is the athletic director at East Lansing High School and attended MSU for her graduate degree ... Both parents were athletes as undergrads at Alma College, where her father played basketball and her mother ran track ... Has a younger sister, Elizabeth, who is starting her college volleyball career this fall at North Dakota ... Member of the National Honor Society and graduated among the top 10 in her class ... Played basketball for one year as a freshman, and was a three-year track & field letterwinner, earning All-Conference honors and was a state qualifier in the high jump ... Earned her undergraduate degree in kinesiology in Dec. 2020 and is now pursuing her Master’s Degree in the same subject.
