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

CAREER WATCH: Enters 2012 season ranked 5th in both kills (1,168) and attacks (3,196)... Matching her junior season will move her into the No. 2 spot past Kelly Gaudino in both categories (1,337 and 3,989).

2011: ALL-BIG WEST CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM... Led team and finished 5th in conference with 421 kills (3.66 per set)... Finished with 201 errors and 1,213 attempts for .181 hitting average... Also had 10 aces and career-high 305 digs... Tallied team-high 17 solo blocks with 49 assists for 66 total (0.57)... Earned all-tournament honors at all four events, including MVP at Northern Colorado Classic and Aggie Invitational... Became seventh Aggie to reach 1,000 career kills at UC Santa Barbara (11/1)... Earned Big West Conference Player of the Week honors for 9/26, posting 14 kills and .522 average at Pacific (9/21) followed by 19-kill, 15-dig performance vs. UC Irvine (9/24)... Hit double-digit kills 24 times, including 12 dig-kill double-doubles... Landed season-high 21 kills at Sacramento State... Hit 20 kills each vs. Denver (9/9) and Long Beach State (11/12)... Scooped up season-best 19 digs vs. Cal Poly (10/19)... Earned Big West Academic All-Conference honors.

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)... 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... Younger sister, Kimmy, is a freshman setter at Pacific.

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