6   Allison Whitson
	Class: Junior Hometown: Palo Alto, Calif. High School: Palo Alto HS '09 Height: 6-1 Position: OH Major: Managerial Economics

2010: ALL-BIG WEST CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM... First Aggie sophomore to win first-team all-conference honors since Kaersten Hill in 1996... Appeared in all 29 matches and 114 sets... Continued to lead team in kills (377) and total attacks (984)... Became one of Aggies' primary servers, tallying 23 aces... Added 198 digs (1.74 dps) and 61 blocks (0.54 bps) on defense... Notched double-digit kills in all but three matches... Had eight dig-kill double-double matches, seven in Big West competition... Hit season-best 22 kills at Cal State Fullerton... Compiled .520 hitting average (15-2-25) vs. Nevada, helping earn all-tournament honors at Aggie Invitational... Broke .500 mark on two other occasions: 16-2-27 (.519) at SMU (9/4), 17-2-28 (.536) at UC Irvine (10/29)... Picked up season-best 15 digs at UC Santa Barbara... Tallied 10 blocks in two matchups with Pacific, including season-high 6 in season finale (11/20)... Needs 253 kills to become seventh player to reach 1,000 in a career... Earned Big West Academic All-Conference.

2009: ALL-BIG WEST CONFERENCE HONORABLE MENTION... ALL-BIG WEST FRESHMAN TEAM... Played in all 30 matches (starting 20) and all 110 sets... Led team and ranked 8th in conference with 3.36 kills per set... Total of 370 kills is the most by a UC Davis freshman... Compiled .207 attack average, committing 163 errors on 999 swings... Tallied 80 blocks (14 solos, 66 assists) for 0.73 average, highest among Aggie pin hitters... Had double-figure kills in 22 matches, including season-high 20 at Cal Poly (10/16)... Recorded .484 average (13-1-31) vs. Mississippi State (9/4), then .480 (13-1-25) vs. Sam Houston State the following weekend (9/12)... Amassed 16 kills and 6 blocks vs. Cal Poly (11/14)... Had season-high 7 blocks at Nevada (9/11).

PALO ALTO HS '09: Averaged better than 5.0 kills and .300 hitting to lead team to second straight Santa Clara Valley Athletic League title as a senior... Earned Player of the Year honors for both the SCVAL and Palo Alto Daily in 2008... Twice earned All-SCVAL distinction... Appeared on San Jose Mercury News first team as a senior after gaining a second-team nod as a junior... Won team's John Williams Scholarship Award and school's Rachel Austen Award for academic excellence in English... Named to all-tournament team at 2009 Junior Olympics, helping her City Beach VBC squad place fifth in National division.

PERSONAL: Born in Palo Alto, Calif.... Managerial economics major... Parents are Bruce & Deborah Whitson... Career highlight was making all-tournament team at 2009 Junior Olympics.

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