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DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY PANTHERS

2022 Women's Volleyball Roster

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4 Hayley Kreiger

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Height 6-1
  • Position Outside Hitter
  • Hometown South Haven, Mich.
  • Highschool South Haven

Biography

Career Rankings
Kills: 1st (1936)
Kills per set: 1st (3.86)
Block solos: 5th (54)
Attack pct.: 8th (.242)
Total blocks: t-8th (288)
Block assists: 9th (234)
Digs: 10th (1000)


2022 (Sr.): Named First Team All-GLIAC… Earned GLIAC Player of the Year… Named Davenport University Senior Athlete of the Year… Selected as Midwest Region Player of the Year (D2CCA)... All-Region selection by the Division II Conference Commissioner's Association (D2CCA), College Sports Communicators (CSC) and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA)... Earned Academic All-American honors, the first Panther to do so in program history… First Team All-American (D2CCA) and Second Team All-American (AVCA)... Received the GLIAC Commissioner’s award… Ended her final season with the volleyball program with 575 kills, marking the second most in Division II and eighth most across all divisions… Her 575 kills also marked the most in a single season in school history… Ended with 4.91 kills per set, the second most in school history in a single season… Set a school record for kills in a match against Grand Valley State, notching 24 in the GLIAC Quarterfinals (Nov. 9). In that game against GVSU, Kreiger registered her 1,000th career dig, becoming the second player in school history to record 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs… Named to the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team.

2021 (Sr.): One of four Panthers (Herr, Corstange, Groves) to play in all 28 of the team's matches and one of three (Herr, Corstange) to see time in all 107 sets...continued her ascent in the program's career record book as she moved into second place for attack attempts with 3,812 and fourth place for kills with 1,361 while breaking into the top 10 for solo blocks with 38...became the fourth All-American in program history (Hannah Stone, Amber Getty and Marcey DeHaan) but first in DU's DII era as she received American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Honorable Mention All-American honors...also became the program's first AVCA All-Region honoree in the DII era as she was one of 20 student-athletes named to the AVCA Midwest All-Region Team and one of 160 nationally...was the first Panther to be recognized regionally by the AVCA since Krissy Dill was selected for the All-Mideast Region Team in 2016...named First Team All-GLIAC for the third-straight season and was honored for the fourth time in as many seasons...named to CoSIDA Academic All-District Team and was one of just eight players selected from the NCAA's Midwest Region...represented Davenport's first Academic All-District honoree since Kasey Stehouwer in 2017 and the program's first attacker to be recognized since Molly Lameyer in 2015...earned GLIAC South Player of the Week honors for the second time in her career on Sept. 13...the honor concluded a four-match stretch in which Kreiger hit .293 with 72 kills and only 19 errors on 181 total attacks to go with 39 digs, 12 total blocks and seven service aces...those numbers also garnered her MVP honors of the All-Tournament Team as Davenport went 3-1 in two days at Walsh's Cavalier Invitational...racked up 471 kills for the season, which is the second most in program history and most by a Panther since 2014...that number was also good for first in the GLIAC and sixth in all of Division II...nationally, was also seventh in points per set (4.97), eighth in kills per set (4.40), 14th in attacks per set (11.77), and 18th in total attacks (1,259)...those 1,259 attempts are second in program history and so are the 4.40 kills per set...dug out 255 attacks, a new career high after the 168 she recorded in her second season with the program...named to GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team.

2020 (Jr.): Featured on an All-GLIAC Team for the third time in as many seasons and named First-Team All-GLIAC for the second-consecutive campaign...one of five Panthers to appear in all 18 of the team's matches and one of four to play in each of the team's 67 sets...finished her 2020-21 regular season as well as anyone in the country and has turned herself into a dominant presence on the outside...finished with at least 20 kills in each of Davenport's last five regular season matches, a span in which she hit a red-hot .312 with 113 kills and only 29 errors on 269 swings...in Kreiger's 67 career matches prior to that stretch, she sent home 20 or more kills in a match just twice...rounding out those five matches was a performance in which Kreiger racked up a personal best 25 kills as part of her fourth-consecutive double-double, fifth of the season and ninth of her career...among the GLIAC's statistical leaders, Krieger was first in kills with 267, 25 more than the second-place player, first in attacks with 787, and second in hitting percentage among players with at least 500 swings...also finished fourth in the league in kills per set with 3.99, beating her previous career best of 3.43, which was set when she was a sophomore...named GLIAC South Player of the Week on March 22...named to the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team.

2019 (So.): One of four Panthers to play in all 27 of the team's matches and tied Sami White for the team lead in matches started with 24...was on the court for all but two of the team's 98 sets on the season...shot down any notion of a sophomore slump as she led the team in points (389), points per set (4.05), kills (329), kills per set (3.43), and total attacks (889) while finishing second in solo blocks (15), block assists (40), total blocks (55), and third in blocks per set (0.57)...those 3.43 kills per set are good for fourth in program history, fifth in the GLIAC and 16th in the Midwest Region...finished with 19 matches of at least 10 kills, three more than her freshman total, as well as four double-doubles (kills & digs), the first four of her career...finished third on the team in digs with 168 and tallied 10 or more in a single match four times, all of which came in the team's last nine matches and were double-doubles (kills & digs) for Kreiger...sent home double-digit kills seven times in the first 15 matches before doing so in the final 12 matches in a row...also became a trusted server as she was third on the team in service aces with 25...named First-Team All-GLIAC...became the program's third First-Team All-GLIAC honoree joining Krissy Dill in 2017 and Ashley VanderHorst in 2018...named to the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team.

2018 (Fr.): Played in 115 sets and 31 matches, in which she started 17 of them... third on the team in points with 335.5... averaged 2.94 points a set... recorded 294 kills and a .234 attack percentage... tallied 108 digs and 69 blocks... had a career high in kills with 17 at Ashland on Nov. 7th... named All-GLIAC Honorable Mention.

High School: Prepped at South Haven High School...played for coach Wilma Wilson...tied for career doubles...most singles and most hits in career in school history...First Team All-Conference all four years...All-District all four years...All-Region two years...All-State as a senior...made it to Class B State Finals as a senior.

Personal: Majoring in Business...born on July 9...favorite movie is White Chicks.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2018Freshman

    OH
    6'1"
    4
  • 4

    2019Sophomore

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    4
  • 4

    2020Junior

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    4
  • 4

    2021Senior

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    4
  • 4

    2022Graduate Student

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    4