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2025 Women's Volleyball Roster

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13 Kara Erdmann

  • Class Senior
  • Position Libero
  • Height 5-6
  • Hometown Forreston, Ill.
  • High School Forreston
  • Major Finance & Marketing

Biography

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Collegiate Honors
· Horizon League Defensive Player of the Year (2024)
· All-Horizon League First Team (2024)
· Horizon League All-Academic Team (2024)
· College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team (2024)
· Southern Methodist DoubleTree Classic All-Tournament Team (Sept. 7, 2024)
· One-Time Horizon League Player of the Week (Oct. 21, 2024)

2024 | Match-by-Match Statistics
Named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-North Region Honorable Mention listing … selected as the Horizon League Defensive Player of the Year and was also a Horizon All-League First Team selection … was also named to the Horizon League All-Academic Team following the year … earned All-Tournament Team honors at the Southern Methodist DoubleTree Classic in September … played in all 32 matches for the Panthers during her junior season with the team … served as the team’s libero and ended the season with 719 digs … her dig total was second-most in all of the NCAA Division I while her 5.85 digs per set were also second-most in the nation … her 719 digs and 5.85 digs per set were Milwaukee single-season records while she also set the overall record and five-set match record for digs in a single contest with 47 against Wright State in mid-October … her 47 digs were also tied for the most in a single match throughout all of Division I during the 2025 season … led the team and the Horizon League with 719 digs and 5.85 digs per set … was third on the team with 126 assists on the season … also added nine service aces and a pair of kills during her third season with the program … began the year with 11 digs in the team’s season opener against No. 5 Stanford (8/30) … had 31 digs the following afternoon in the team’s first win of the year against Western Illinois (8/31) … picked up 19 digs and had three assists in action against Northern Illinois (9/1) … had double digits with 10 digs against Loyola Marymount (9/6) … had a kill and added six assists to her 17 digs in the team’s win over Weber State (9/7) … collected a 36-dig performance with five assists in the team’s reverse sweep win over Illinois State (9/13) … picked up 17 digs the next day against St. Thomas (9/14) … had 29 digs with three assists and a pair of aces in a four-set win over Iowa (9/15) … had a dozen digs versus DePaul (9/19) … registered another 25 digs with four assists against UIC (9/21) … had 26 digs in back-to-back matches to open Horizon League play with a pair of five-set wins over Oakland (9/27-28) … recorded a 38-dig effort in the team’s five-set win over Northern Kentucky (10/11) … added another 19 digs the following afternoon against the Norse (10/12) … picked up 30 digs in the team’s five-set winner over Wright State (10/18) … set the single-match program record with 47 digs over five sets while also collecting eight assists in another five-set match the next day against the Raiders (10/19) … followed up her historic performances with 18 digs at Marquette (10/22) … had a pair of aces and four assist with another 23 digs in the weekend opener against Youngstown State (10/25) … secured 19 more digs the next day against the Penguins (10/26) … had 29 digs as the Panthers swept in-state foe Green Bay (10/29) … had 15 digs and six assists in the weekend opener at Purdue Fort Wayne (11/1) … registered a season-best 11 assist and added 22 more digs to her season total the next afternoon against the Mastodons (11/2) … had 30 digs with seven assists at Robert Morris (11/8) … helped Milwaukee to a sweep with 24 digs and another seven-assist effort against the Colonials (11/9) … picked up another 34 digs over five sets at home against Cleveland State (11/15) … finished the regular season with a 21-dig afternoon versus Cleveland State (11/16) … ended the 2025 season with a 34-dig performance in the Horizon League Championship Semifinals against Cleveland State (11/23).

2023 | Match-by-Match Statistics
Saw time in 26 matches during her sophomore season with the Panthers and made three starts while seeing time in 85 sets over the year … was fifth on the team with 196 digs … also had 38 assist, two kills, and two service aces on the year … opened the campaign with nine digs at Western Michigan (8/25) … had 10 digs and added three assists versus Northern Iowa (8/26) … chipped in with 16 assists and added another three assists against Villanova (8/26) … recorded nine digs and three assists at home against Marquette (9/14) … picked up six digs in back-to-back matches at Chicago State (9/19) and at home against IUPUI (9/22) … picked up 18 digs in a four-set win versus Wright State (10/7) … added another 15 digs with a season-best six assists at Oakland (10/13) … had a 10-dig effort at Cleveland State (10/14) … secured 22 digs in the team’s five-set road win over Purdue Fort Wayne (10/20) … recorded 15 digs at Wright State (11/3) … had 10 more digs the following afternoon at Northern Kentucky (11/4).
 
2022 | Match-by-Match Statistics
Appeared in 25 of the team’s 30 matches during her first season with the program … made four starts on the year … ended the year third on the team with 228 digs … was fourth on the team with 42 assists … made her collegiate debut and had five digs against Mississippi State (8/26) … had eight digs and four assists versus Utah (9/2) … picked up nine more digs and also had an ace in the team’s victory over Bradley (9/2) … collected six digs and her first collegiate kill against LSU (9/9) … had 14 digs over two matches against New Mexico State and San Jose State (9/17) … recorded nine digs with a kill in the team’s four-set win over Youngstown State (9/23) … tallied 18 digs at Northern Kentucky (10/1) … picked up 14 kills in the win at home versus IUPUI (10/18) … registered a dozen digs at Robert Morris (10/21) … picked up 16 digs at the Klotsche Center in Horizon Play against Northern Kentucky (10/28) … had 17 digs in the team’s final road match of the season at Cleveland State (11/5) … ended the season with a year-best 28 digs in the Horizon League Tournament versus Cleveland State (11/18).
 
High School
Played every year as libero for Forreston High School... Named Second Team All-State twice... Also earned three First Team All-Conference nods... Owns the school record for most career digs as well as digs in a single match and digs in a single season... Also played softball each year of high school... Two-time First Team All-State... Rockford Register Player of the Year in 2022... Also First Team All-Conference four years... Played club volleyball for VC United from 2019-2022.

Personal
Daughter of Eric and Andrea... Major is Finance and Marketing... Sister Katie plays volleyball at Northern Illinois... Chose Milwaukee for the competitive atmosphere, the coaches, and being able to study while playing at a high level athletically... Lists most memorable sports experience as playing with her sister during her first year of high school varsity volleyball as well as earning a third state medal in her senior year of softball... Born on December 14, 2003.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 7

    2022Freshman

    Defensive Specialist
    5'6"
    7
  • 13

    2023Sophomore

    Defensive Specialist
    5'6"
    13
  • 13

    2024Junior

    Defensive Specialist
    5'6"
    13
  • 13

    2025Senior

    Libero
    5'6"
    13