Upcoming Event: Volleyball versus Wake Forest on September 28, 2025 at 1 PM
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1 PM
Volleyball
vs Wake Forest
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2023 Volleyball Roster
Underwood, Nikki
Jersey Number 13
Nikki Underwood
- Position:
- Defensive Specialist/Libero
- Height:
- 5-11
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Manhattan Beach, Calif.
- High School:
- Mira Costa
Bio
Honors: All-ACC Academic Team (2022, 2023, 2024) ... ACC Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023) ... CSC Academic All District (2024)
2023: Saw action in all 29 matches in 86 sets as a defensive specialist … Tallied 89 digs and 19 assists … Recorded eight digs against North Carolina (10/25) … Collected five-or-more digs in eight different matches … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2022: Saw action in all 29 contests and in 112 sets … Took over the starting libero role seven games into the season … Tallied 423 digs for a 3.78 digs per set average … Added 23 aces and 87 dimes … Tallied a career-high 32 digs against Miami (11/20) and Boston College (11/11) … Tallied 10 or more digs in 19 contests and 20 or more in 10 … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2021: Saw action in 23 matches as a rookie defensive specialist … Tallied 70 digs, including a career-high seven twice (Coastal Carolina and Miami [OH]) … Notched a career-high two aces on three separate occasions (Michigan, Coastal Carolina and Iowa) … Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
High School: Elected a captain of her high school team in 2020 ... Earned a second-place finish with her club team at a Southern California Volleyball Association (SCVA) tournament ... Named the MVP of the Santa Barbara High School tournament in 2019 ... Earned all-tournament team honors at the Dave Mohs Tournament ... Participated in the USA Volleyball Junior National Championship and was honored as part of Prep Volleyball's February Class of 2021 Watch List ... Participated in multiple national qualifiers and junior national championships throughout her career ... Outside of volleyball, Underwood is a model scholar-athlete having made the honor roll the last three years with an unweighted 4.0 GPA ... Possesses a robust community service resume which includes hosting fundraisers for Homefront America, a non-profit group supporting American military families ... Active volunteer with the Friendship Foundation.
Personal: Born June 10 ... Daughter of Susan and Craig Underwood ... Has two older sisters, Alexa and Sami ... Alexa played volleyball at Princeton and graduated in 2021 ... Sami played volleyball at Amerst and graduated in 2023.
2024: Appeared in 31 matches with six starts … Earned three kills, 31 assists and three service aces … Boasted 194 digs with 1.73 digs earned per set … Posted her season-high 13 digs against Georgia Tech (11/1) ... Led the team in digs in the matches against Davidson (9/6) and Princeton (9/13) ... Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and selected to the 2024 CSC Academic All-District Team.
2023: Saw action in all 29 matches in 86 sets as a defensive specialist … Tallied 89 digs and 19 assists … Recorded eight digs against North Carolina (10/25) … Collected five-or-more digs in eight different matches … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2022: Saw action in all 29 contests and in 112 sets … Took over the starting libero role seven games into the season … Tallied 423 digs for a 3.78 digs per set average … Added 23 aces and 87 dimes … Tallied a career-high 32 digs against Miami (11/20) and Boston College (11/11) … Tallied 10 or more digs in 19 contests and 20 or more in 10 … Named to the All-ACC Academic Team and to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
2021: Saw action in 23 matches as a rookie defensive specialist … Tallied 70 digs, including a career-high seven twice (Coastal Carolina and Miami [OH]) … Notched a career-high two aces on three separate occasions (Michigan, Coastal Carolina and Iowa) … Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
High School: Elected a captain of her high school team in 2020 ... Earned a second-place finish with her club team at a Southern California Volleyball Association (SCVA) tournament ... Named the MVP of the Santa Barbara High School tournament in 2019 ... Earned all-tournament team honors at the Dave Mohs Tournament ... Participated in the USA Volleyball Junior National Championship and was honored as part of Prep Volleyball's February Class of 2021 Watch List ... Participated in multiple national qualifiers and junior national championships throughout her career ... Outside of volleyball, Underwood is a model scholar-athlete having made the honor roll the last three years with an unweighted 4.0 GPA ... Possesses a robust community service resume which includes hosting fundraisers for Homefront America, a non-profit group supporting American military families ... Active volunteer with the Friendship Foundation.
Personal: Born June 10 ... Daughter of Susan and Craig Underwood ... Has two older sisters, Alexa and Sami ... Alexa played volleyball at Princeton and graduated in 2021 ... Sami played volleyball at Amerst and graduated in 2023.
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