3 Sara Matsumura
3 - Sara Matsumura
Height: 5-7
Year: Sr.
Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah
High School: Rowland Hall
Position: OH/DS
Major: Chemistry
m 24
k/s 0.06
h % .000
a/s 0.71
b/s 0.00
sa/s 0.62
d/s 5.99

Career Honors:
NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee (2019-20)
Gregory Kannerstein '63 Award (2020)
AVCA Honorable mention All-America (2019)
AVCA All-Mid-Atlantic Region (2019)
Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Team (2019)
First-team All-Centennial Conference (2019)
Second-team All-Centennial Conference (2018)
Honorable Mention All-Centennial Conference (2017)
Centennial Conference All-Sportsmanship Team (2016, 17, 18, 19)
Ford Invitational Most Valuable Player (2019)
Ford Invitational All-Tournament Team (2019)
Muhlenberg Buttermaker All-Tournament Team (2019)
Haverford Invitational All-Tournament Team (2019)
Centennial Conference Player of the Week (Sept. 10, 2019)
Academic All-Centennial (2017, 18, 19)
Centennial Conference Fall Honor Roll (2017, 18, 19)

2019: Team captain … NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee … Gregory Kannerstein '63 Award … AVCA Honorable Mention All-American ... AVCA All-Mid-Atlantic Region... Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Team … First-team All-Centennial Conference … Centennial Conference All-Sportsmanship Team … Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll … Appeared in 24 matches at libero before missing the final seven matches due to injury … Paced the Centennial Conference in digs (521) and digs per set (5.99) … Ranked 16th in the Centennial Conference in digs per set …Notched 54 service aces … Added double-digit digs in 23 matches … Collected 37 digs against Cabrini (Sept. 6) … Tallied season-best 43 digs agianst Stockton (Sept. 19) ... Served a season-high six aces against Medaille (Sept. 1) … Contributed a season-best seven assists against Penn St. Abington (Sept. 13). 

2018: Team captain … Second-team All-Centennial Conference … Centennial Conference All-Sportsmanship Team …Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll … Appeared in 27 matches, making 11 starts at outside hitter while serving as the team’s primary libero in the remainder … Played in all but three of Haverford’s sets … Led the Centennial Conference in digs with 487 and was second in the conference with 5.24 digs per set … Tallied double-digit digs in each contest, posting a season-best 34 during a win over Washington College (Oct. 10) … Reached double-digit kills against Cabrini (Sept. 14) and Widener (Sept. 15)… Grabbed a season-best three blocks at York (Sept. 7).

2017: Honorable mention All-Centennial Conference … Centennial Conference All-Sportsmanship Team … Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll … Appeared in 29 matches, making 15 starts … One of five players to see time in each set Haverford played … Began the season as the primary libero before making the transition to outside hitter in late September… Contributed five service aces against Penn State Berks (Sept.  9) … Tallied season-best 38 digs against Muhlenberg (Sept. 20) … Registered double-digit kills in 14 of the last 15 matches of the season, including a season-best 20 kills against McDaniel (Oct. 14) and Denison (Oct. 21) … Added a season-best three blocks against DeSales (Oct. 20) and Denison.

2016:  Centennial Conference All-Sportsmanship Team … Appeared In 29 matches … Only Haverford player to see time in every set … Season - best 27 digs against North Carolina Wesleyan (Sept. 17) … Posted 25 digs against Heidelberg (Sept. 4) … Tallied 22 digs against then- No. 10 Eastern (Sept. 24) … Had 23 digs against conference foe Franklin & Marshall (Sept. 28) … Recorded 20 digs in triumph over rival Swarthmore (Oct. 29) … Four service aces against Muhlenberg (Oct. 12).

Prep: Team captain … Twice named to 2A first-team All-Utah by Deseret News, earning second-team honors in 2013 … Team MVP and Outstanding Offensive Player …. All-region … Senior all-star … Academic All-Region … Deseret News Prep of the Week In October 2014.

High School: Daughter of Evelyn and Kyle Matsumura.

Season sp-mp k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s se dig d/s re bs ba tb b/s be bhe
2016.. 106-29 6 0.06 10 43 -.093 34 0.32 22 0.21 27 391 3.69 37 0 0 0 0.00 0 2
2017.. 106-29 198 1.87 82 601 .193 44 0.42 41 0.39 22 554 5.23 44 1 14 15 0.14 0 3
2018.. 93-27 80 0.86 90 388 -.026 57 0.61 23 0.25 23 487 5.24 51 0 12 12 0.13 1 0
2019.. 87-24 5 0.06 5 23 .000 62 0.71 54 0.62 24 521 5.99 24 0 0 0 0.00 0 1
TOTAL. 392-109 289 0.74 187 1055 .097 197 0.50 140 0.36 96 1953 4.98 156 1 26 27 0.07 1 6

SINGLE-MATCH HIGHS:
Kills: 20, McDaniel, Oct 14, 2017 ; vs Denison, Oct 21, 2017
Attacks: 60, vs DeSales, Oct 20, 2017
Attack pct: .400, Arcadia, Sep 30,2017 (11-1-25)
Assists: 7, vs Penn State Abington, Sep 13, 2019
Serve aces: 6, Medaille, Sep 01, 2019
Digs: 43, vs Stockton, Sep 14, 2019
Blocks: 3, vs DeSales, Oct 20, 2017 ; vs Denison, Oct 21, 2017 ; at York (Pa.), Sep 7, 2018
Block solo: 1, McDaniel, Oct 14, 2017
Block assist: 3, vs DeSales, Oct 20, 2017 ; vs Denison, Oct 21, 2017 ; at York (Pa.), Sep 7, 2018
 ALL-TIME RANKINGS - [at time of graduation]:
Service attempts: 2nd (1513)
Digs: 3rd (1953)
Digs per set: 3rd (4.98)
RecPct: 8th (.922)
Serve pct.: 8th (.937)
Service aces: 13th (140)
AstPct: 18th (.186)
Service aces per set: 19th (0.36)
Assists per set: 20th (0.50)
SINGLE-SEASON RANKINGS - [at time of graduation]:
Digs per set: 5th (5.99 in 2019)
Digs: 6th (554 in 2017)
Service aces per set: 7th (0.62 in 2019)
Service attempts: 8th (423 in 2017)
Digs: 10th (521 in 2019)
Digs per set: 10th (5.24 in 2018)
Digs per set: 11th (5.23 in 2017)
RecPct: 12th (.935 in 2019)
Service attempts: 13th (398 in 2016)
Serve pct.: 13th (.948 in 2017)
RecPct: 15th (.932 in 2017)
Digs: 16th (487 in 2018)
Service aces: t-17th (54 in 2019)

 

Recent Games
Oct 19 (RV) Stockton L, 3-1
Oct 26 at Dickinson W, 3-1
Oct 26 vs. Misericordia W, 3-0
Oct 30 at Bryn Mawr W, 3-0
Nov 2 Swarthmore W, 3-1
Nov 6 Swarthmore L, 3-1
Statistics category Overall Conf
Matches 24 6
Sets 87 22
Kills 5 0
Kills per set 0.06 0.00
Errors 5 1
Total Attacks 23 2
Hitting Percentage .000 -.500
Assists 62 19
Assists per set 0.71 0.86
Service Aces 54 9
Service Errors 24 7
Service Aces per set 0.62 0.41
Receptions 372 111
Reception Errors 24 7
Digs 521 141
Digs per set 5.99 6.41
Block Solo 0 0
Block Assist 0 0
Block Total 0 0
Blocks per set 0.00 0.00
Block Errors 0 0
Ball Handling Errors 1 0
Points 59.0 9.0
Points per set 0.7 0.4
Matches started - -
Date Opponent Score ms s k e ta pct a sa se r re digs bs ba be tot bhe pts
Aug 24 Alumnae Match   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Aug 31 Wells W, 3-0 - 3 0 1 2 -.500 1 0 2 20 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Aug 31 Vassar W, 3-0 - 3 0 1 1 -1.000 1 3 0 4 1 18 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Sep 1 Eastern W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 2 4 1 18 1 18 0 0 0 0 0 4.0
Sep 1 Medaille W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 2 6 0 9 0 17 0 0 0 0 1 6.0
Sep 6 Neumann W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 1 1 2 17 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Sep 6 Cabrini W, 3-2 - 5 1 1 2 .000 4 4 1 29 2 37 0 0 0 0 0 5.0
Sep 7 St. Mary's (Md.) W, 3-1 - 4 1 0 1 1.000 2 2 0 32 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Sep 7 Hunter W, 3-2 - 5 0 0 0 - 2 1 1 15 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Sep 13 vs. Eastern W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 1 1.000 1 1 0 23 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 13 vs. Penn St.-Abington W, 3-0 - 2 0 0 0 - 7 5 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 5.0
Sep 14 vs. Mount Saint Vincent W, 3-1 - 4 0 0 0 - 4 2 0 0 1 26 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 14 vs. Stockton W, 3-2 - 5 1 0 2 .500 1 3 2 0 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 4.0
Sep 20 vs. Salisbury L, 3-1 - 4 0 0 0 - 1 0 1 8 1 29 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sep 21 vs. Lycoming W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 4 1 0 19 1 18 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Sep 21 vs. UC Santa Cruz L, 3-2 - 5 1 0 4 .250 5 4 2 23 1 28 0 0 0 0 0 5.0
Sep 25 Muhlenberg W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 2 2 1 14 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 28 at Franklin & Marshall L, 3-1 - 4 0 0 0 - 5 2 0 14 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 28 vs. Scranton L, 3-1 - 4 0 1 6 -.167 3 4 2 28 7 20 0 0 0 0 0 4.0
Oct 2 at Immaculata W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 2 .000 0 4 1 6 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 4.0
Oct 5 #16 Johns Hopkins L, 3-0 - 3 0 1 2 -.500 1 0 0 23 2 19 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oct 9 at Ursinus W, 3-1 - 4 0 0 0 - 5 3 2 17 2 28 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Oct 12 at Gettysburg W, 3-1 - 4 0 0 0 - 3 1 1 17 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Oct 12 vs. (RV) Stevenson L, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 2 0 2 10 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oct 16 Washington College W, 3-1 - 4 0 0 0 - 3 1 3 26 3 19 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Oct 19 McDaniel L, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oct 19 (RV) Stockton L, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oct 26 at Dickinson W, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oct 26 vs. Misericordia W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Oct 30 at Bryn Mawr W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nov 2 Swarthmore W, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nov 6 Swarthmore L, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
2016-17 29 106 6 0.06 10 43 -.093 34 0.32 22 0.21 218 37 391 3.69 0 0 0 0.00 28.0 0.3
2017-18 29 106 198 1.87 82 601 .193 44 0.42 41 0.39 617 44 554 5.23 1 14 15 0.14 247.0 2.3
2018-19 27 93 80 0.86 90 388 -.026 57 0.61 23 0.25 494 51 487 5.24 0 12 12 0.13 109.0 1.2
2019-20 24 87 5 0.06 5 23 .000 62 0.71 54 0.62 372 24 521 5.99 0 0 0 0.00 59.0 0.7
Total 109 392 289 0.74 187 1055 .097 197 0.50 140 0.36 1701 156 1953 4.98 1 26 27 0.07 443.0 1.1
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
Total 24 87 5 0.06 5 23 .000 62 0.71 54 0.62 372 24 521 5.99 0 0 0 0.00 59.0 0.7
Conference 6 22 0 0.00 1 2 -.500 19 0.86 9 0.41 111 7 141 6.41 0 0 0 0.00 9.0 0.4
Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Home 11 39 2 0.05 4 8 -.250 21 0.54 24 0.62 207 11 221 5.67 0 0 0 0.00 26.0 0.7
Away 4 15 0 0.00 0 2 .000 13 0.87 10 0.67 54 2 89 5.93 0 0 0 0.00 10.0 0.7
Neutral 9 33 3 0.09 1 13 .154 28 0.85 20 0.61 111 11 211 6.39 0 0 0 0.00 23.0 0.7
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Wins 18 64 4 0.06 3 11 .091 45 0.70 44 0.69 266 13 388 6.06 0 0 0 0.00 48.0 0.8
Losses 6 23 1 0.04 2 12 -.083 17 0.74 10 0.43 106 11 133 5.78 0 0 0 0.00 11.0 0.5
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August 2 6 0 0.00 2 3 -.667 2 0.33 3 0.50 24 1 34 5.67 0 0 0 0.00 3.0 0.5
September 16 60 5 0.08 2 16 .188 46 0.77 42 0.70 249 16 383 6.38 0 0 0 0.00 47.0 0.8
October 6 21 0 0.00 1 4 -.250 14 0.67 9 0.43 99 7 104 4.95 0 0 0 0.00 9.0 0.4