1 Erin Edwards
1 Erin Edwards
Height: 5-9
Year: Senior
Hometown: Midlothian, Va.
High School: Monacan
Position: OPP
m 27
k/s 2.39
h % .256
a/s 0.04
b/s 0.55
sa/s 0.00
d/s 0.53
* 2021 Preseason Second-Team All-SAC
* 2021 Second-Team All-SAC
* 2021 Presseason Second-Team All-SAC
* 2019 NCAA All-Southeast Region Tournament Team
* 2019 D2CCA Second-Team All-Southeast Region 
* 2019 SAC Tournament MVP
* 2019 SAC All-Tournament Team
* 2019 Second-Team All-SAC
 
2021 (Senior): Put the finishing touches on her career with 966 total kills including a hitting percentage of .275, 299 total blocks and 1,124 total points playing in 119 matches and 407 sets... Her career hitting percentage of .275 was good enough to finish fourth on the program's all-time list... Over her final year, Edwards played in 96 sets over 27 matches tallying 10 double-digit kill nights leading the team seven times.... Recorded an electric .533 hitting percentage with 17 kills and one error on 30 swings on Sept. 10 in a win over Catawba... Fired a .317 margin with 17 kills against Mars Hill on Oct. 17... In the penultimate match of her career, she hit .500 with 17 kills, two blocks and 3.5 total rejections against UVA Wise on Nov. 13... In the SAC Quarterfinals, the final match of her career, she piled up a career-high 21 kills hitting .409 against Lenoir-Rhyne on Nov. 16.
 
Spring 2021 (Senior): Edwards earned a slot on the second club for the second year in a row after being the SAC Tournament MVP in 2019 adding all-region and all-region tournament team selections as a junior. In her four seasons with the program, she has produced a .281 attack percentage, good for the fifth-best margin for a career in the history of the program. She has racked up 235 block assists to sit at No. 10 on the all-time list. During the 2021 spring season, the Midlothian, Va. native had six matches with double-digit blasts to bring her career total to 33. She led the team in kills three times and in blocks on three occasions. Edwards posted a season-high 14 kills hitting .344 against Anderson on April 3 and backed that up with another dominant SAC Tournament performance with nine kills within a misfire and a .450 hitting margin in the quarterfinals against Limestone.  
 
2019 (Junior): Edwards produced a breakout junior year earning second-team D2CCA All-Region honors, second-team All-SAC laurels and a trio of postseason plaudits - the only player in program history to collect those awards with the SAC Tournament MVP. She was the 2019 SAC Tournament MVP where she posted 44 kills in three matches led by a then career-high 17 against 24th-ranked Wingate in the semifinals. The junior was a member of the NCAA Southeast Region All-Tournament team resetting her career-high with 19 kills posting a scorching .457 hitting percentage in a sweep of Augusta in the championship match on Dec. 7. In seven postseason matches, she had at least nine kills in all seven including six with double digits posting 96 total kills during that stretch, the most by an Eagle during a single postseason in program history. She averaged 4.30 kills per set over the three matches hitting .396 en route to a region title. The Midlothian, Va. native had the fourth-most efficient season in school history with a .312 hitting clip, seventh in the SAC. With 108 block assists, she finished eighth in C-N history with 112 total rejections, fourth in the SAC. The right side had 18 overall double-digit kill efforts on the year leading the team in smashes 12 times and leading the way in rejections on four occasions. The junior had two double-digit kill efforts in her first 11 matches but 16 over her final 25.

2018 (Sophomore): Played in 28 of the team’s 29 matches finishing third on the team in kills per set at 2.09 while hitting .264, eighth in the SAC… To open the year, she had 13 kills against Belmont Abbey on Aug. 31 on 20 swings without a mistake. It was the most kills without an error since Maddie Borch went 14-0-26 (.538) against Erskine on Dec. 5, 2016 in the NCAA Southeast Region Semifinals in Aiken, S.C. Her attack percentage of .650 was the highest margin for a C-N player with an outing of at least 12 kills since Jenna Wilson hit .667 (12-0-18) at Coker on Oct. 31, 2014…With 90 total blocks, she finished eighth in the SAC…Reset her career high with 14 kills at Mars Hill on Nov. 3…Overall, she had nine double-digit kill efforts leading the team in the category six times.

2017 (Freshman): Saw action in 18 of the team’s 32 matches totaling 40 sets played…Produced her best outing as a rookie with six kills on a .455 hitting percentage with three digs and 1.5 total blocks against Francis Marion on Sept. 30…Notched three kills on three swings at Catawba on Oct. 28.

HIGH SCHOOL: The Midlothian, Va. native was her team's most valuable player each year in high school while picking up first-team all-conference honors. In her career, Edwards notched 624 kills, 75 blocks, 174 digs and 141 aces. Also a member of the gymnastics team, she excelled in the classroom being a member of the Beta Club, a Tribe Mentor Leader, on the Academic Honor Roll all four years and being a President's Award winner.

PERSONAL: Sister, Elexis, is a gymnast at Ohio State competing in all-around.

Recent Games
Oct 29 Newberry W, 3-0
Nov 2 at Lincoln Memorial W, 3-0
Nov 6 at Catawba L, 3-2
Nov 12 Tusculum L, 3-2
Nov 13 at Virginia-Wise W, 3-1
Nov 16 at Lenoir-Rhyne L, 3-1
Statistics category Overall Conf
Matches 27 16
Sets 96 58
Kills 229 144
Kills per set 2.39 2.48
Errors 75 45
Total Attacks 601 354
Total Attacks per set 6.26 6.10
Hitting Percentage .256 .280
Assists 4 2
Assists per set 0.04 0.03
Service Aces 0 0
Service Errors 0 0
Service Aces per set 0.00 0.00
Receptions 7 5
Reception Errors 0 0
Digs 51 28
Digs per set 0.53 0.48
Block Solo 6 3
Block Assist 47 37
Block Total 53 40
Blocks per set 0.55 0.69
Block Errors 3 2
Ball Handling Errors 0 0
Points 258.5 165.5
Points per set 2.7 2.9
Matches started 4 3
Date Opponent Score ms s k e ta pct a sa se r re digs bs ba be tot bhe pts
Sep 3 vs. UNC Pembroke L, 3-1 1 4 8 4 23 .174 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 8.5
Sep 3 at USC Aiken L, 3-1 - 4 3 3 15 .000 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 3.5
Sep 4 vs. Embry-Riddle L, 3-0 - 3 2 6 16 -.250 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 2.5
Sep 4 vs. Converse W, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sep 10 Catawba W, 3-1 - 4 17 1 30 .533 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 5 0 19.5
Sep 11 Queens (N.C.) L, 3-2 - 5 10 6 28 .143 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 4 0 12.0
Sep 14 Lincoln Memorial W, 3-2 - 3 4 3 7 .143 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 4.5
Sep 17 vs. Christian Bros. W, 3-0 - 3 13 2 19 .579 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 3 0 15.0
Sep 17 vs. Arkansas Tech L, 3-0 - 3 12 4 33 .242 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 13.0
Sep 18 vs. Southern Ark. W, 3-0 - 3 8 3 16 .313 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 9.0
Sep 18 at Union (Tenn.) L, 3-2 - 5 11 1 36 .278 1 0 0 1 0 7 0 0 1 0 0 11.0
Sep 21 at Trevecca Nazarene W, 3-0 - 3 1 1 13 .000 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 2.0
Sep 24 at Tusculum L, 3-2 1 5 6 2 23 .174 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Sep 25 Virginia-Wise W, 3-0 - 3 4 1 8 .375 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 5.0
Oct 1 at Young Harris   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oct 2 Limestone W, 3-0 - 3 9 2 18 .389 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 10.0
Oct 8 at Coker W, 3-1 - 4 11 2 21 .429 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 3 0 12.5
Oct 9 at Wingate L, 3-0 - 3 5 1 14 .286 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 5.5
Oct 12 Mars Hill L, 3-2 1 5 17 4 41 .317 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 18.0
Oct 15 at Newberry W, 3-1 - 2 4 0 8 .500 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4.0
Oct 16 at Anderson (S.C.) W, 3-1 - 4 9 5 28 .143 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 10.5
Oct 19 Lenoir-Rhyne W, 3-0 - 3 7 5 29 .069 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 5 0 9.5
Oct 22 vs. Lander L, 3-2 - 5 5 3 30 .067 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 2 0 6.0
Oct 22 at USC Aiken W, 3-2 - 1 1 0 2 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Oct 23 at Georgia College W, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oct 23 vs. Augusta W, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oct 28 Anderson (S.C.) L, 3-0 - 2 7 3 17 .235 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 8.0
Oct 29 Newberry W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nov 2 at Lincoln Memorial W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nov 6 at Catawba L, 3-2 - 3 6 2 17 .235 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 2 0 7.0
Nov 12 Tusculum L, 3-2 - 5 11 6 35 .143 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 4 0 13.0
Nov 13 at Virginia-Wise W, 3-1 1 4 17 2 30 .500 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 5 0 20.5
Nov 16 at Lenoir-Rhyne L, 3-1 - 4 21 3 44 .409 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 21.5
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
2017-18 17 39 46 1.18 18 121 .231 1 0.03 0 0.00 1 1 14 0.36 1 15 16 0.41 54.5 1.4
2018-19 28 103 215 2.09 68 556 .264 5 0.05 0 0.00 11 1 60 0.58 4 86 90 0.87 262.0 2.5
2019-20 36 127 362 2.85 81 901 .312 3 0.02 0 0.00 28 3 67 0.53 4 108 112 0.88 420.0 3.3
2020-21 11 42 114 2.71 37 322 .239 3 0.07 0 0.00 6 1 31 0.74 2 26 28 0.67 129.0 3.1
2021-22 27 96 229 2.39 75 601 .256 4 0.04 0 0.00 7 0 51 0.53 6 47 53 0.55 258.5 2.7
Total 119 407 966 2.37 279 2501 .275 16 0.04 0 0.00 53 6 223 0.55 17 282 299 0.73 1124.0 2.8
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
Total 27 96 229 2.39 75 601 .256 4 0.04 0 0.00 7 0 51 0.53 6 47 53 0.55 258.5 2.7
Conference 16 58 144 2.48 45 354 .280 2 0.03 0 0.00 5 0 28 0.48 3 37 40 0.69 165.5 2.9
Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Home 9 33 86 2.61 31 213 .258 2 0.06 0 0.00 2 0 14 0.42 1 25 26 0.79 99.5 3.0
Away 12 42 95 2.26 22 251 .291 2 0.05 0 0.00 5 0 26 0.62 2 16 18 0.43 105.0 2.5
Neutral 6 21 48 2.29 22 137 .190 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 11 0.52 3 6 9 0.43 54.0 2.6
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Wins 13 40 105 2.63 27 229 .341 1 0.03 0 0.00 2 0 19 0.47 5 26 31 0.78 123.0 3.1
Losses 14 56 124 2.21 48 372 .204 3 0.05 0 0.00 5 0 32 0.57 1 21 22 0.39 135.5 2.4
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September 13 48 99 2.06 37 267 .232 2 0.04 0 0.00 3 0 29 0.60 3 19 22 0.46 111.5 2.3
October 10 32 75 2.34 25 208 .240 1 0.03 0 0.00 4 0 15 0.47 1 18 19 0.59 85.0 2.7
November 4 16 55 3.44 13 126 .333 1 0.06 0 0.00 0 0 7 0.44 2 10 12 0.75 62.0 3.9