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Truman State University Athletics

2019 Volleyball Roster

Kara Mackenzie
Kara Mackenzie
Kara Mackenzie
Kara Mackenzie
Kara Mackenzie
Kara Mackenzie
Kara Mackenzie
Kara Mackenzie
Kara Mackenzie
Sonam Wangyal, TSU Athletics

8 Meghan Gasper

  • Position Defensive Specialist
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Leesville Road
  • Hometown Raleigh, N.C.

Biography

Career Highs
Kills: 3 at Northwest Missouri (9/20/2016)
Assists: 29 vs Lock Haven (9/10/2016)
Points: 4 vs Missouri Western (10/25/2016)
Aces: 4 vs Missouri Western (10/25/2016)
Digs: 23 vs McKendree (9/23/2017)
Blocks: 1 vs Quincy (10/18/2019)

Truman
2019:
One of three players to play in all 31 matches, the senior proved to be a valuable rotation player and made eight starts and played 93 sets…finished third on the team with 244 digs…set a season high with 16 digs against Cedarville…reached multiple digit digs in 11 matches and had a stretch of five straight matches with double digit digs from 9/14-9/21…tallied her lone career block on 10/8 against Quincy…finished with six kills, 35 assists and 10 aces

2018: Played in 31 of 32 matches with 24 starts and 111 sets played…averaged 2.5 digs per set with 277 for the season…had a single-game high of 22 digs in a five set match against Drury (October 27) and had 10 or more digs in 12 matches…added 26 assists and 18 service aces. 

2017: Appeared in 30 of the team's 32 matches with 13 starts including 110 of a possible 118 sets played ... set new career highs in service aces with 24, aces per set with 0.20, digs with 279,  and digs per set with 2.54 ... also registered five kills, 38 assists and 357 reception attempts, the second-most on the team ... racked up at least 10 digs in a match 11 times including her first with at least 20 thanks to 23 on Sept. 23 vs. McKendree ... six of those 13 starts came in her final seven matches of the year ... of those 11 times that she had at least 10 digs in a match, she did it in back-to-back outings four times.

2016: Played in 103 of the team's 128 sets and 30 of the squad's 35 matches while making starts in seven of them ... started the year as the other setter in the 6-2 offense before moving to defensive specialist for the rest of the season ... second amongst Bulldogs in both total assists with 255 and assists per set with 2.48 ... made her presence felt as a server as she was fourth on the team in service aces with 18 and aces per set with 0.17 ... fifth on the squad in digs with 223 and digs per set with 2.17 ... had at least 10 digs in a match eight times and 15+ twice including a career-high 18 vs. Drury on Oct. 21 and an even 15 on Sept. 10 vs. Lock Haven ... tallied at least 10 assists in a match nine times through her first 10 matches before doing so just three times in her final 20 matches of the year ... those first nine times were all in a row and she was averaging 19.1 assists per outing during that span ... named Academic All-GLVC.

High School
Was a four-year letterwinner, starter and standout for the Pride of Leesville Road High School in Raleigh, N.C. ... collected 609 career assists, 28 career service aces, 164 career digs, and 70 career kills ... named all-conference as both a junior and senior as well as a member of the N&O All-Metro Volleyball Team as a senior ... won the Leesville Road Pride Award twice and the Leesville MVP Award twice as well ... helped her team to a NCHSAA State Champion Runner-Up finish as a freshman ... member of the National Honor Society, the Spanish National Honor Society and National Art Honor Society.

Personal
Daughter of Greg and Theresa Gasper ... is majoring in Exercise Science.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 8

    2016Freshman

    Setter
    5'7"
    8
  • 8

    2017Sophomore

    Setter
    5'7"
    8
  • 8

    2018Junior

    Defensive Specialist
    5'7"
    8
  • 8

    2019Senior

    Defensive Specialist
    5'7"
    8