Milwaukee Athletics

2024 | Match-by-Match Statistics
Saw time in 16 of the team’s matches during her first season with the Panthers including appearances in 46 sets on the season … ended the year with 13 digs along with six service aces and two assists on the year … made her Panther debut and had a dig in action against No. 5 Stanford (8/30) … had an assist in the team’s win over Western Illinois (8/31) … picked up her first ace of the season and added a dig in three sets played against Loyola Marymount (9/6) … added another dig the following day against Weber State (9/7) … picked up an assist along with an ace and a dig in the team’s reverse sweep win as part of the Panther Invitational against Illinois State (9/13) … had two digs versus St. Thomas (9/14) … had a season-best four digs on the road in Horizon League play at Green Bay (10/1) … added service aces and digs in both of her appearances against IU Indy (10/4-5) … finished the season with a season-best two service aces during the team’s Horizon League Championship Semifinal matchup against Cleveland State (11/23).
 
2023 (at UNC Greensboro)
Saw time in 20 matches during her freshman season with appearances in 64 sets … had 125 kills on the season with 124 digs while also recording 13 blocks as a sophomore … finished the year with 141 points which as fourth-highest on the team … made her season debut and had three kills against East Carolina (8/25) … added eight more kills with six digs the following afternoon against East Carolina (8/26) … recorded six kills with a pair of blocks at Marshall (9/1) … connected on 10 kills with a trio of blocks at home against UNC Asheville (9/16) … had a season-best 16 kills with 11 digs and a pair of blocks against Chattanooga (9/30) … put down 11 more kills with nine digs in her next match against The Citadel (10/5) … picked up eight kills with nine digs against Mercer (10/20) … added another 15 kills while hitting .220 while adding 13 digs against East Tennessee State (10/28) … finished her season with nine digs at The Citadel (11/4).
 
2022 (at UNC Greensboro)
Appeared in 18 matches as a freshman with time in 52 sets during her first collegiate season … finished her freshman season with 77 digs and 16 blocks while also adding eight kills and seven assists along with eight service aces in 2022 … made her collegiate debut in action against Bethune-Cookman (8/26) … saw time in four of the team’s five sets and had three digs and a pair of aces against Coppin State (8/27) … had the first three kills of her career in the team’s sweep over South Carolina State (9/2) … had a kill and nine digs versus UNC Asheville (9/3) … picked up four digs against North Carolina Central (9/10) … notched 11 digs later in the day against host Elon (9/10) … had a season-best 13 digs in the team’s four-set win over The Citadel (10/3) … had a kill and eight digs versus Chattanooga (10/8) … finished her season with seven digs at Furman (10/15).
 
High School
Graduated from Springfield Catholic High School in Springfield, Missouri in 2022 … played four seasons of varsity volleyball for the Fighting Irish … was a part of three district championships in 2019, 2020, and 2021 … also helped the team to a fourth-place finish at the Class Three Championship in 2020 … earned AVCA accolades as an All-Region selection in 2021 while also earning AVCA Best and Brightest honors in 2020 and 2021 … was a three-time All-State selection from 2019-21 as well as a First Team All-District and All-Conference selection in each of her latter three seasons … selected as the Big 8 East Unanimous Player of the Year in both 2021 and 2022 … was a team captain as a junior and senior … was named to the Volleyball Hall of Fame at SCHS in 2023 after graduating as the program’s all-time leader in digs, service aces and serving percentage … played in 282 sets in high school with 210 aces, 976 digs, 767 kills, and added 44 assists … also ran track and played soccer while in high school … was a member of the National Honor Society and earned the St. Therese Service Award with 125 hours of service … graduated with a 4.65 grade-point average … was involved in numerous clubs and organizations in high school such as Family Leader, Superfans Leader, Rotary, National Art Honor Society, and Unicef … also played club volleyball for Thr33 Volleyball and 417 Juniors.
 
Personal
Daughter of Heather Aust and Ken Cook … has two older siblings, Keri Ghirardelli and Kameron Aust … her mother played soccer at Westminster College while her father was a baseball player at Central Missouri … her brother played college football at Hendrix … plans to earn her degree in biological sciences and plans to work as an anesthesiologist assistant upon graduation.