Vassar College Athletics

2025 UVC All-Academic Team
2025 All-UVC Second Team

2025: All-UVC Second Team....Played in 68 sets over 23 matches....Buried a team-high 221 kills with a .281 hitting percentage.....Recorded 14 aces....Ranked fourth on the squad in blocks with 43....Lifted 84 digs....Notched double-digit winners in 11 matches....Registered a career-high 20 kills against Nichols (1/25)....Lifted a career-high 10 digs twice (2/1 vs Arcadia, 2/8 vs Misericordia)....Tallied a career-high seven blocks against Nazareth in the UVC Semifinals (4/12)....

2024: Played in 12 sets over seven matches....Registered 13 kills, three aces, six digs and two blocks....Buried season-best eight winners against SUNY Potsdam (1/20)....Recorded three kills, one aces, two blocks and three digs against Lancaster Bible (1/27)

PRIOR TO VASSAR: AVCA High School All-American at La Jolla High School....Broke the school single-season kill record with 534 kills in 2023 (Fifth in the Nation)....2023 AVCA National Player of the Week - West Region.....2023 JVA Watchlist.....All CIF (San Diego)....All Eastern League

PERSONAL: Child of Barbara and Walter Birnbaum, Sister Kaitlin played four years for the Vassar Women's Volleyball team... Decided on Vassar because "Vassar offers the perfect combination of a high level education and an elite, varsity level athletics program. Either one of these would make my college experience worthwhile, but both being offered at the same school is fantastic and something I am very excited for for the next four years."