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Jersey Number 23
Rico Wardlow
- Position:
- Middle Blocker
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bolingbrook, Ill.
- High School:
- Bolingbrook
- Prev School:
- Purdue Fort Wayne
GCU
2024 - Senior
2023 - Junior
2022 - Sophomore
2024 - Senior
- Named All-MPSF honorable mention.Â
- Claimed only the eighth perfect hitting match in MPSF history going 10/10 against CUI (first since 2008).Â
- 4th best single season hitting percentage in GCU history (.495).Â
- Season high 5 blocks against Stanford on March 1.
- Named to MPSF All-Academic team.Â
2023 - Junior
- Named an AVCA All-American for the first time landing on the honorable mention list.
- One of two Lopes named to the All-MPSF second team.
- Set a new GCU single season hitting percentage mark at .536.
- Finished with 191 kills and a team-high 65 blocks in 107 sets played.
- Named the MPSF Defensive Player of the Week after leading GCU with 10 blocks and four digs in a pair of wins over No. 12 USC.
- Collected a season-high 12 kills at .667 hitting in a 3-2 win at No. 7 Pepperdine on Feb. 22.
2022 - Sophomore
- Named to the All-MIVA second team.
- Appeared in 24 matches starting 23.
- Finished with 190 kills on .447 hitting along with 60 blocks.
- Had a career high 15 kills in the MIVA semifinals at Loyola Chicago on April 20.Â
- Had a career high six total blocks in the MIVA finals at Ball State.
- Ended the season third in the MIVA with a .447 hitting percentage.
- Appeared in three matches logging nine total sets.
- Collected 11 kills along with 13 digs and four blocks.
- Had a season-high seven kills against Loyola Chicago on March 12.
- Appeared in eight matcches in his COVID shortened debut season.
- Collected 21 kills with just four errors on 34 attempts.
- Had 10 total blocks and 27.5 points.
- Earned All-Academic team three years in a row.
- Helped his club team earn second at nationals in 2016-17.
- Received the bronze medal at High Performance Championships in 2018.
- Parents are Renee and Riccardo Wardlow.
- Had four brother, Mykal, Julius, Trevor and DJ.
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