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Sydney Pierce

Class:
Sophomore
Position:
Middle Blocker
Height:
6-4
Hometown:
Billings, Mont.
High School:
Billings West HS

2024 (Freshman): Academic All-Big Sky… appeared in 19 matches, starting 7 of them… recorded 47 kills, averaging 1.02 per set… hit .294 on the season… totaled 65.0 points, averaging 1.41 per set… 7^th on Montana with 26.0 total blocks… averaged 0.57 blocks per set, the 4^th most on Montana… season-high six kills on two different occasions, doing it back-to-back at Idaho State (10/5) and vs. Idaho (10/10)… hit .500 in the Idaho win with six kills on 12 attempts with zero errors… also had zero errors against Idaho State, going 12K/0E/21 TA over the two-game stretch to hit .571… had multiple kills in 12 of her 19 appearances… at least one kill in 15 matches, including 12 of the final 13… hit over .400 in eight matches… season-high five blocks in win over Idaho (10/10)… had at least one block in the final 13 matches of the season… had multiple blocks in seven appearances.

Career Highs
Kills: 6, two times
Attacks: 15, two times
Assists: 1, two times
Aces: 2, vs. Idaho (Oct. 10, 2024)
Digs: 2, five times
Blocks: 5, vs. Idaho (Oct. 10, 2024)
High School: A 2024 graduate of Billings West HS… four-year varsity letterwinner… three-time First Team All-State selection… second team All-State as a freshman… school record holder for career kills at West… high school team went 31-0 and won the state championship as a senior… league champions during junior season… also played basketball, earning second team All-Conference honors her first two seasons and first team honors as a junior… basketball state champions her junior season… Academic All-State recipient.

Personal: Parents are Rich and Shelley Pierce… has a younger sister, Brooklyn… plans to major in business marketing.

Coach Lawrence on Pierce: "What really excites us about Sydney is her physicality. She's long, she's really strong, sees the court really well and because she's so tall and her contact point is really high she's able to execute angles offensively and just see the court really well and be terminal."