Completed Event: Women's Volleyball versus UT Rio Grande Valley on August 30, 2025 , Win , 3, to, 0
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2022 Women's Volleyball Roster
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Jersey Number 8
Melanie Brecka
- Position:
- Outside hitter
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- HS:
- Lincoln Southeast
- Hometown:
- Lincoln, Nebraska
Bio
GCU
2022 | Graduate
Previous School : Kansas City
2021 | Senior
2020 | Junior
2019 | Sophomore
2018 | Freshman
High School
Lincoln Southeast
2022 | Graduate
- First team All-WAC Honors.
- Named WAC offensive player of the week.
- Preseason All-WAC Honors.
- Started in all 29 matches this season, including both of GCU's postseason NIVC tournament matches against Wichita State (No. 60; highest RPI opponent victory) and Drake (No. 62).
- Ranked second on the team in kills (294), kills per set (2.77).
- Ranked second on the team in points (328.0), and totaled 116 digs.
Previous School : Kansas City
2021 | Senior
- First Team All-Summit.
- Summit League Offensive Player of the Week (Sep. 28, Nov. 16, Nov. 23)
- Appeared in all 116 sets
- Posted double-digit kills in 27 matches and posted 20-plus kills five times
- Average of 3.78 kills per set led the team and was third in the Summit League
- Team-leading 438 kills ranked third in the Summit League and top 50 nationally
- 511 points and average of 4.41 points per set ranked first on the team and second in the Summit League
- Sent across 42 service aces on the year, good for second on the team
- Average of 2.87 digs per set ranked second on the team
- 62.0 total blocks was third best on the team
- Posted fifteen double-doubles on the year
2020 | Junior
- AVCA Honorable Mention All-American, just the second in program history to earn the award
- AVCA All-Midwest Team
- Summit League Player of the Year, just the second in program history to earn the award
- First Team All-Summit and Academic All-Summit
- Led Roos in kills in all 17 matches
- Posted double-digit kills in 16-of-17 matches
- Posted 20-plus kills seven times
- Average of 4.17 kills per set led the Summit League and was fifth best in program history
- Average of 4.64 points per set ranked first on the team and second in the Summit League
- Sent across 19 service aces on the year, good for third on the team ... Average of 2.37 digs per set ranked third on the team
- 28.0 total blocks was third-best on the team
- Posted nine double-doubles on the year
2019 | Sophomore
- Selected to the 2019 All-WAC Second Team
- Started in all 29 matches and appeared in all 111 sets
- Ranked sixth in the conference in kills per set (3.23), seventh in total kills (358), 17th in hitting percentage (.244), 23rd in total blocks (66) and 32nd in blocks per set (0.59)
- Her 66.0 total blocks and 27 service aces were good for third on the team... Overall, had 10-plus kills in 24 of 29 matches she played in
- Tied a career-high with 20 kills in win against Utah Valley (11/7)
- Finished the year with five double-doubles in kills and digs
2018 | Freshman
- Appeared in all 32 matches while participating in 123 sets
- 2018 All-WAC Second Team selection and All-WAC Freshman Team
- Recorded 20 kills in two games this season against Chicago State (10/11) and CSU Bakersfield (11/1)
High School
Lincoln Southeast
- Standout right side and four-year letter winner for Lincoln Southeast High School
- Earned Second Team All-City as a sophomore and First Team All-City as a junior for Lincoln Southeast HS
- Tallied 442 kills, 217 digs, 89 blocks and 51 aces during senior season for the Knights
- Led Lincoln Southeast to a Nebraska Class A State Quarterfinals appearance in 2017 while earning All-State honors in her final season.
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