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Kaity Smith Season 2020

PositionOH
Height6-1
ClassGraduate Student
HometownFlorence, Ky.
High SchoolRandall Cooper

2020: Started in all 17 matches ...  Finished the year with 217.5 points, including 192 kills (a team-high) and eight assists, tallying a team-high 3.40 points per set … Posted a 3.00 KPS, along with a .155 attack percentage … Recorded 160 digs, good for second on the team and 2.50 digs per set, also good for second … Had a near double-double in both matches at NC State (10/29, 10/30) ... Had six double-doubles in the fall and 30 over her career ... Recorded another double-double with 11 kills and 10 digs at Duke (10/25) ... Had 17 kills and 16 digs in the win over Duke (10/24) ... Notched her 26th double-double of her career and reached the 1,000 kill club at Virginia Tech against UVA (10/18) ... Had 15 kills and 18 digs in the first contest against Virginia (10/16) ... Recorded a season-high 21 kills and 14 digs in the victory over UNC (9/25) ... Smith in her season debut recorded six kills and three digs.

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2019:Appeared in 27 matches … Recorded a season high of 24 kills, 12 digs and two aces versus North Carolina (11/29) … Had 17 kills, five digs, one assist and one block against Boston College (11/8) … Had 15 kills, two aces, 10 digs and one block against Clemson (11/15) … Had 13 kills, 12 digs and one ace against Wake Forest (10/27) …  Posted 10 kills, one assist and eight digs versus Miami (11/3) … Had 13 kills, 12 digs and one ace against Wake Forest (10/27) … Put down 12 kills and nine digs in the upset victory against No. 23 Louisville (10/20) … Had 12 kills and tied her career high of 15 digs against Notre Dame (10/18) … Led the team with 12 kills, 15 digs and one block against Clemson (10/11) … Posted a career high of 16 digs and 12 kills against UNC (10/6) … Put down 14 kills against NC State (10/4) … Tallied her first match this season of leading the team in kills, pounding down eight at No. 4 Pitt (9/29) … Had 10 kills against UVA (9/27) … Tallied an ace against USC Upstate (8/30) in the season opener.


All-ACC Academic Volleyball Team
Charlotte Invitational Co-MVP
Charlotte Invitational All-Tournament Team

Hokie Invitational All-Tournament Team

2018: Played and started all 30 matches … Tallied double-digit kills in 24 matches and 15-plus in eight contests … Recorded nine double-doubles on the season … Set a season-high 21 kills against Boston College (11/4) ... Notched a career-high .591 hitting percentage versus USC Upstate (8/24) … Tied her career high in assists with two at Clemson (10/7) … Tied her career high in service aces with three versus IUPUI (9/7) … Tied her career best in digs with 15 against Duke (10/21) … Tallied a season-best three blocks versus Boston College (11/16).


ACC All-Freshman Team
VaSID Freshman of the Year
Prep Volleyball All-Freshman Honorable Mention

2x ACC Freshman of the Week (8/28/17, 11/13/17)
Thunder Invite All-Tournament Team
Pepsi Panther Invitational All-Tournament Team

2017: Played in 27 matches with 26 starts … Opened her career with 30 kills against Idaho State (8/25), the most in a Hokie debut … It was the most kills by a Tech player since 1992 and the second-most ever by a freshman in school history … Posted five double-doubles … Tallied a career-high 14 digs against Arkansas State (9/1) … Logged five blocks against Florida State (11/27), a career-high … Ranks sixth all-time in freshman kills (309) and fifth all-time in freshman kills per set (3.25) in Tech history.

High School: Four-year varsity letterwinner … 2016 Cincinnati.com City Player of the Year … Ranked No. 88 in PrepVolleyball’s Senior Aces … 2016 Under Armor All-American Third Team … Three-time All-State selection … Four-time All-Conference … 2016 Region 9 Player of the Year … Named to PrepVolleyball’s Sophomore 79 and Freshman 59 lists.

Personal: Daughter of Beth and Bryan Smith … Majoring in criminology ... Born on Dec. 27, 1998.