2024 Volleyball Roster

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12 Madeline Villarreal

  • Position Right Side/Middle Blocker
  • Height 6-1
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Cypress, Texas
  • High School Cypress Ranch

Biography

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2024 (SENIOR)
  • Played in 72 sets over 24 matches with 20 starts 
  • Produced 76 kills and 15 digs
  • Season-high 10 kills vs. Marshall (10/19)
  • Led the team in total blocks with 46
  • Career-high eight blocks vs. Marshall (10/19)
  • Reached three or more blocks seven times
2023 (JUNIOR)
  • Played in 92 sets over 26 matches with 22 starts 
  • Tallied 128 kills, 58 digs, 33 blocks, six assists and six service aces 
  • Posted a career-high .389 hitting percentage on 18 total attacks vs. Indiana State (9/1) 
  • Recorded 10 kills at Ragin’ Cajuns (10/27) 
  • Achieved season-high four blocks twice, vs. Troy (10/20) and at Ragin’ Cajuns (10/28)
2022 (SOPHOMORE)
  • Played in 38 sets over 14 matches with seven starts, tallying 64 kills, 22 digs, 10 blocks and one assist 
  • Recorded her lone assist vs. UC-Riverside (9/2)
  • Beat her career-high with 13 kills and 6 digs vs. Louisiana Tech (9/9) 
  • Hit season-high .333 on 12 attacks vs. Alcorn (9/13)
  • Achieved 2 blocks twice, vs. Louisiana Tech (9/9) and vs. Southern (9/16)  
2021 (FRESHMAN)
  • Played in 55 sets over 21 matches with nine starts, posting 39 kills, 19 blocks, 17 digs, two assists and two service aces 
  • Had a career-high six kills twice, doing so against Little Rock (10/29) and while adding four blocks vs. Grambling (9/17) 
  • Had both of her assists vs. Little Rock (10/8)
  • Recorded a career-high six blocks with five kills and one dig vs. Arkansas State (10/10) 
CYPRESS RANCH HS
  • Three-year varsity letterwinner and team captain at Cypress Ranch HS, helping the team to co-district and divisional championships in 2018 before graduating in 2021 
  • As a senior in 2020, tallied a .390 hitting percentage with 240 kills while being named to the 2020 All-Greater Houston Volleyball Coaches Association Team, VYPE 2020 Preseason Team, First Team All-District, 2020 AVCA Phenom, 2020 Most Valuable Offensive Player and 2020 All-American Special Mention 
  • As a junior in 2019, had a .330 hitting percentage and 374 kills while being named a 2019 AVCA Phenom, Second Team All-District and Most Valuable Offensive Player
  • As a sophomore in 2018, had a .296 hitting percentage and 226 kills while being named First Team All-District and to the 2018 Prep Volleyball Sophomore 79 
  • Two-time Academic All-District selection
CLUB
  • Played four years with the Houston Skyline Juniors Royal and Black teams 
  • Was a 2018 US Junior National bronze medalist in USAV Open Division
PERSONAL
  • Born December 9, 2002 to Steven and Tara Villarreal 
  • Has two siblings, Cristian and Jillian 
  • Father, Steven, played football at Arkansas State 
  • Brother, Cristian, was a high jumper at Houston Baptist 
  • Majoring in nursing

CAREER HIGHS
Kills: 13, two times, last vs. Louisiana Tech (9/9/22)
Attacks: 37, at Louisiana Tech (9/6/22)
Hitting Pct. (min. 10 attempts): .389, two times, last vs. Tarleton State (9/21/24)
Assists: 2, three times, last at South Alabama (10/4/24)
Aces: 3, at Grambling State (8/29/23)
Digs: 6, three times, last vs. Georgia State (11/10/23)
Blocks: 8, vs. Marshall (10/19/24)

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2021Freshman

    Right Side/Middle Blocker
    6'1"
    12
  • 12

    2022Sophomore

    Right Side/Middle Blocker
    6'1"
    12
  • 12

    2023Junior

    Right Side/Middle Blocker
    6'1"
    12
  • 12

    2024Senior

    Right Side/Middle Blocker
    6'1"
    12