2010: Played in 27 matches and 85 sets at right side hitter ... Notched a season and career high in both kills (9) and total points (11.0) versus Wisconsin-Parkside (10/1) ... Recorded many career highs on the year, including 16 digs at Bellarmine (11/5), 27 attack attempts vs. Wayne State (MI) at the GLVC-GLIAC Crossover Challenge, three service aces versus Missouri Western State at the S&T ‘Middle of Everywhere’ Classic (9/11) and seven set assists on three separate occasions ... Finished second on the team in set assists (58), fourth in attack attempts (390) and digs (165) and fifth on the team in kills (109) and blocks (25) ... Earned the Top Passer Award ... Awarded the Missouri S&T Scholar Athlete Award by the S&T M-Club ... Named a 2010-11 GLVC Academic All-Conference selection.
2009: Played in 34 matches and 108 sets at right side hitter ... Notched a career-tying eight
kills and eight points versus Ashland at the Asics GLVC/GLIAC Crossover Challenge in Lansing, Mich. (10/16) ... Registered a career high 24 attack attempts and a season-high three blocks versus Lake Superior State at the Asics GLVC/GLIAC Crossover Challenge in Lansing, Mich. (10/17) ... Hit a career high .750 attack percentage (3k-0e-4a) versus Cameron at the Nebraska-Omaha Volleyball Classic (9/12) ...Finished fourth on the team in attack percentage (.185) as well as sixth in kills (109), attack attempts (308) and points (125.5) ... Awarded the Missouri S&T Scholar Athlete Award by the S&T M-Club ... Named a 2009-10 Great Lakes Valley Conference Academic All-Conference selection.
2008: Registered career highs versus Texas A&M-Commerce at the Southwest Baptist Bearcat Invitational in Bolivar, Missouri in kills (8), digs (4) and points (8.0) (9/5) … Notched career high in blocks with four versus Findley at the Asics GLVC/GLIAC Crossover Challenge in Indianapolis, Ind. (10/18).
2007: Redshirted for the season. Did not play…Awarded the Missouri S&T Scholar Athlete Award by the S&T M-Club.
HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB: Was selected to the all-state second team and the all-conference first team after her senior year at Valley Center High School in helping her team reach the state tournament for the first time in 12 seasons…has also played on the Raider Nation and Shockwave club teams, the latter of which competed the junior nationals last year.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Dave and Pam Spears…majoring in business…has several relatives who have played sports at the collegiate level, including two uncles who played Division I football and an aunt who played volleyball at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas…chose S&T for the great academics and to play volleyball.
SPEARS' CAREER HIGHS
KILLS 8 vs. Texas A&M-Commerce (9.5.08)
ATTACKS 22 vs. Lake Superior State (10.17.08)
ATTACK% (min. 5 att.) .333 (5k-1e-12a) vs. Central Missouri (9.3.08)
ASSISTS 4 vs. Rockhurst (11.1.08)
ACES 1 vs. Columbia (Mo.) (11.8.08)
DIGS 4 vs. Texas A&M-Commerce (9.5.08)
BLOCKS 4.0 vs. Findley (10.18.08)
POINTS 8.0 vs. Texas A&M-Commerce (9.5.08)
