Teresa Atilano Season 2021

2022 (SO): Virginia Tech Invitational All-Tournament Team ... Sun Belt Setter of the Week (Sept. 27) ... College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-District … Appeared in all 28 matches, starting 26, and played in 104 sets ... Ranked eighth in the Sun Belt with 875 total assists ... Her other season totals included 75 kills (0.72/set), a team-high 36 service aces, 175 digs (1.68/set), 56 blocks (eight solo) and 143.0 points (1.38/set) ... Recorded three double-doubles and reached double-digit assists 27 times ... Ended up with 29 assists and 12 digs at Northern Arizona on Aug. 27 ... Posted season highs of five blocks and 9.5 points against Navy on Sept. 8 ... Served a season-best four aces on Sept. 9 versus Notre Dame ... Turned in a 52-assist, 10-dig double-double in a 3-1 win over Marshall on Sept. 22 ... Eclipsed 2,000 career assists in ODU's 3-1 win over Coastal Carolina on Oct. 14. Needing 23 assists to reach the milestone heading into the match, she nearly doubled that with 43 and added two kills, three aces, five blocks and six digs to her totals ... Had a 26-assist, 12-dig double-double against App State on Oct. 29 ... Was three assists shy of her career high as she tallied 54 assists versus Southern Miss on Nov. 10.

2021 (FR): Voted Second Team All-State by VaSID … Ranked sixth in Conference USA with 9.30 assists per set and was fourth with 893 total assists … Started all 26 matches for ODU, playing in every set (96) … Tallied 70 kills (0.73 per set), 186 digs (1.9 per set) and 45 total blocks (0.5 per set) … Tied for second on the team with 20 service aces … Logged a trio of double-doubles on the season … Had her first with 48 assists and 15 digs vs. Purdue Fort Wayne and added two more against C-USA foes Marshall (52 assists, 19 digs) and Middle Tennessee (39 assists, 11 digs) … Finished three games with 50-plus assists and topped 40 assists on nine occasions … Handed out 53 assists, second-most in program history, vs. Radford at the Quest for the Crown … Finished the tournament with 40-assist outings vs. Buffalo (45) and Norfolk State (40) … Named C-USA Setter of the Week following the Quest for the Crown, averaging 12.55 assists per set while committing just one set error in 286 attempts … Posted back-to-back matches with 52 assists at Marshall … Had five kills and seven digs in the first match against the Thundering Herd … Followed with personal-bests in kills (seven) and digs (19) the next day … Totaled 39 assists, four kills and a career-high six blocks vs. Middle Tennessee in the second-to-last match of the season.
 
2020-21 (FR): Named to the C-USA All-Freshman Team … Appeared in all 18 matches ... Recorded 37 kills, 586 assists, 29 service aces, 97 digs and 28 blocks ... Finished seventh in C-USA for assists, averaging 8.74 per set ... Sixth in the conference in total assists ... Fourth in the conference in service aces … Notched a season-high 57 assists in one game against Florida Atlantic ... Had three 50-assist matches and finished with 30 or more assists 10 times ... Notched a pair of double-doubles against Florida Atlantic with 57 assists and 10 digs on Feb. 28 and 40 assists and 12 digs on the following day … Tallied eight or more digs five times ... Recorded a season-high four service aces against FIU … Also had two games with three aces … Finished a match with multiple service aces 10 times … The team’s leading assister in all 18 games on the year ... Tallied five total blocks against Middle Tennessee … Named to the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll.
 
Prep: The Monarchs’ first student-athlete from California … A two-time Union Tribune Scholar-Athlete at Cathedral Catholic High School … Helped lead her team to four-straight league championships and the Durango Tournament crown … An all-tournament selection at Junior Nationals as her team took third … Placed on the honor roll four times through her high school career.

Personal: Daughter of Sarah and Adrian Atilano ... Has two brothers, Vincent and Dominic, and two sisters, Siena and Felicity ... Majoring in business risk management and insurance.