2016 Beach Volleyball Roster

21 Jennifer McClendon

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Destrehan HS
  • Hometown Destrehan, La.

Biography

2016 (JUNIOR - INDOOR)

Started in eight of her 26 games played as well as 66 total sets played…Totaled 87 kills, 22 digs and eight block assists…Tallied 92.9 percent reception percentage…Matched her career high of four aces against Jackson State on Sept. 29…

2016 (SOPHOMORE – BEACH)

Tied for best overall record on squad, finishing 11-8 (10-8 with junior Becca Brown and 1-0 with junior Delaney Driver) … Bested then-No. 10 Georgia State's exhibition pair with Brown 15-21, 21-12, 15-12 at the Tiger Beach Challenge on March 13 … Topped GSU's exhibition pair again alongside Brown at the Diggin' Duals on March 26 … Bested No. 12 New Mexico's exhibition pair with Brown 23-25, 22-20, 15-9 on April 16.

2015 (SOPHOMORE - INDOOR)

Started 13 games and played in 58 sets … Recorded a season-high six kills four times, vs Jackson State (Aug. 28), vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Aug. 29), at Jackson State (Sept. 29) and vs Troy (Oct. 16) … Also had three blocks four times, at Mississippi State (Aug. 28), vs Jackson State (Aug. 28), at Louisiana Tech (Sept. 11) and vs Troy (Oct. 16) … Served a season-high four aces at Jackson State (Sept. 29).

2014 (FRESHMAN - INDOOR)

Appeared in 82 sets in 19 matches during inaugural intercollegiate season ... Recorded 115 kills for an average of 1.40 kills per set ... Totaled 37 blocks, 28 digs, 11 service aces and four assists ... Registered a career-high 13 kills on .435 hitting and three blocks in a road win at Troy (11/7) ... Hit a career-best .562 on 10 kills to go with two blocks against Appalachian State (11/16) ... Tallied a career-high six blocks and seven kills against UL-Lafayette (11/23).

PREP

Four year letterwinner at Destrehan High School... three-time first team all-district honoree... named to the Times-Picayune All-Metro Team and was the paper's River Parish Player of the Week twice as a sophomore, twice as a junior and once as a senior... her final award came on Oct. 8 of this year after she finished the week with 46 kills, 43 digs, seven blocks and four aces

PERSONAL

Daughter of David and Christi McClendon and has a younger brother, Nicholas.

MCCLENDON'S SINGLE-MATCH CAREER HIGHS
Kills: 13 at Troy (Nov. 7, 2014)
Attempts: 31 vs Stephen F. Austin (Nov. 6, 2016) and Houston (Sept 10, 2016)
Hitting Percentage: .562 vs. Appalachian State (Nov. 16, 2014)
Digs: 4 at Arkansas State (Sept. 3, 2014) and Ragin Cajuns (Oct. 8, 2016)
Aces: 4 vs. Alcorn State (Sept. 12, 2014) and Jackson State ( Sept. 29, 2015)
Assists: 2 vs. Prairie View A&M (Sept. 1, 2014)
Total Blocks: 6 at UL-Lafayette (Nov. 23, 2014)