2024 Women's Volleyball Roster
Anna DeBeer
- Position:
- Outside Hitter
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Louisville
- High School:
- Assumption
2024: Anna collected honors for CSC Academic All-America Team Member of the Year, NCAA Tournament Louisville Region Most Outstanding Player, All-ACC First Team, AVCA All-South Region Team, and AVCA All-America Second Team. DeBeer was also named to the AVCA Division I Player of the Year Watchlist and was named ACC Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 14. In 2024, she posted a .290 hitting percentage on a team leading 408 kills, 30 aces, 292 digs and 57.0 blocks. Anna became the fourth player in program history to record a career double-double (kills/digs); she now sits at seventh on the all-time kills list with 1,493 and at 12th on the all-time digs list with 1,082. DeBeer recorded 12 double-doubles this season, most notably against Wisconsin, Kentucky, Stanford, Florida State, SMU and Northern Iowa. She posted a season high 23 kills in a 3-2 win over Florida State and 16 digs in a 3-1 win over Wisconsin. Out of 35 matches played, Anna recorded 10+ kills in 26 matches, going over 20 against Florida State and the Oct. 25 match against Pitt. DeBeer was the second overall pick in the 2024 Pro Volleyball Federation Draft, going to the Indy Ignite.
2023: Anna was voted as an AVCA Second Team All-American, First Team All-ACC, ACC Player of the Year, AVCA All-East Region and All-Pitt Regional. She was the three-time ACC Offensive Player of the Week. She was also named the MVP of the Cardinal Classic. She played in all but one set last year, amassing 392 kills, hitting .245 as an outside hitter. She had 28 aces and 275 digs and recorded 34 blocks. She had 18 matches in double digit kills and 13 double-doubles (kills/digs). She had a season high 29 kills at Pitt, hit a .552 against Washington State (17-1-29). She had a season-high three aces versus Duke and a season-high 17 digs at Pitt. She had a season-high three blocks against Pitt in the NCAA Regional Final. She An excellent student, she was named an CSC Academic All-American, All-ACC Academic, Academic All-District and to the AD Honor Roll and was a Red and Black Scholar. In addition, she was the ACC Scholar of the Year. She was invited to the USA Volleyball Women’s National Team Open Program that trained in Colorado Springs in February of 2024.
2022: Anna carried over her success from the previous year into the first part of the season. She was very dominant throughout the preseason schedule, recorded double-digit kills six times and had a season-high 19 kills hitting .390 against Ohio State. An injury in the game against Stanford caused her to miss almost two months of the season. She returned to playing six rotations in the NCAA Tournament where she was named the All-Louisville Regional MVP and was named to the Final Four All-Tournament Team. Anna played 78 sets and recorded 176 kills (.261), 14 assists, 29 aces, 168 digs, and 32 blocks to score 223.0 points for the Cards. She had nine double-digit kill performances on the season and three double-doubles (10 K and 12 D vs. Purdue, 15 K and 13 D vs. Kentucky, and 17 K and 10 D vs. Oregon). Anna recorded a season-high five aces in the Tournament game against Pitt. She had a season-high 13 digs and four blocks in the five-set win at Kentucky.
NCAA Tournament Stats: 61 K, .270 HP, 6 aces, 52 D, 10 Blks, 72.5 points; 5 K, .500 HP, 8 D, 1 Blk vs. Samford; 4 K, .333 HP, 1 ace, 11 digs vs. Purdue; 11 K, .364 HP, 8 D, 2 Blks vs. Baylor; 17 K, .222 HP, 10 D, 3 Blks vs. Oregon; 15 K, .195 HP, 5 aces, 7 D, 3 Blks vs. Pitt; 9 K, .316 HP, 8 D, 1 Blk vs. Texas
2021: Anna earned AVCA Third Team All-American honors in 2021 and was named to the All-Louisville Regional team as well as to the First Team AVCA All-East Region and All-ACC First Team. She led teams in kills (343), attacks (836) and double-doubles with eight. Her hitting percentage against Top 50 (.258) is better than vs. all opponents. She had 20 matches in double digit kills and was named MVP of Sun Devil Invitational. DeBeer had season-high 20 kills vs. Wisconsin in the Final Four, career-high aces (5) vs. Boston College and career high 21 digs versus Georgia Tech beating her previous high of 14 digs vs Duke and Notre Dame this year. Nationally-ranked in Kills/set (3.27), she had four serving runs of five or more led by two 6-point runs against Boston College in the same match. Had season-high five blocks vs. Georgia Tech and at Notre Dame. She was voted to the Preseason All-ACC ins 2021. An outstanding student, she was named to the ACC All-Academic squad, the ACC Honor Roll and the Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
NCAA Tournament Stats: 13 K, .438 H%, 1 SA, 1 Blk, 5 Digs. vs. UIC; 9 K, 2 Aces, 2 Blks, 5 Digs vs. Ball State; 13 K, .321 H%, 1 ace, 1 dig vs. Florida; 14 K, 1 Ace, 3 Blks, 21 digs vs. Georgia Tech; 20 K, 49 Attacks, 10 digs, 4 blocks versus Wisconsin.
2020: Anna was voted ACC Freshman of the Year, First Team All-ACC, ACC All-Freshman and was a three-time ACC Player of the Week. She was named to the AVCA All-East Region First Team and was voted the East Region Freshman of the Year and an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American. She has played in 55 sets with 174 kills, hits .255 with two assists, 10 aces, 90 digs and 22 blocks. Her best match came in the win over Pitt when she had 22 kills and hit .395 with three blocks. She had three aces each against both GeorgiaTech and North Carolina. Against San Diego, she had 11 kills, eight digs and five blocks. In the Sweet Sixteen match with Washington, she recorded 17 kills, 13 digs and two blocks. An excellent student, DeBeer was named a 2020 Red and Black Scholar, a Dean's Scholar (Fall 2020, Spring 2021) and made the AD Honor Roll and 2020 ACC Honor Roll.
Personal: Daughter of Sara and Jeff DeBeer. Major is exercise science. Born Sept. 25, 2001.
Career Highs:
Kills: 22 vs. Pitt 10/25/21
Attacks: 50 vs. Washington 4/18/21
Assists: 2 vs. three opponents
Aces: 5 vs. Boston College 10/8/21
Digs: 21 vs. Georgia Tech 12/16/21
