Megan Courtney

Megan Courtney is an American volleyball player. She played for the United States women's volleyball team at the 2017 FIVB World Grand Prix.[1] She was named the best libero at the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.

Megan Courtney
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Spike315 cm (124 in)
Block300 cm (118 in)
College(s)Pennsylvania State University
Volleyball information
PositionOutside Hitter/Libero
Current club Pallavolo Scandicci
Number6 (club) 17 (national team)
National team
United States
Honours
Women’s Volleyball
Representing the  United States
World Cup
2019 JapanTeam
FIVB Nations League
2019 NanjingTeam
Pan-American Cup
2017 Cañete/Lima
2016 Santo Domingo

Clubs

Career

Courtney's volleyball career began in 2008, playing for four years with Archbishop Alter High School in Kettering, Ohio.[2] She played college women's volleyball at Pennsylvania State University, where in her freshman season she was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year as well as the AVCA Mideast Region Freshman of the Year. In her next two seasons, she helped Penn State to back-to-back NCAA Titles. In 2014, she earned NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player honors after she recorded career-high 23 kills and 16 digs in the national semifinals win over Stanford. She had 11 kills and 14 digs in the NCAA Championship win over BYU.[3]

International

In 2016, she signed her first professional contract at Leonas de Ponce in the Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino. In the summer of 2016 also made her debut in the US national team.[4] In 2017, she won the 2017 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup gold medal. In the 2016-17 season she arrived in Poland, where he plays the ORLEN Liga with the Impla of Breslavia.[5] In the following season she played for Çanakkale, a Turkish Sultanlar league club.

Awards

Individuals
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See also

References
  1. "Player - Megan Courtney - FIVB World Grand Prix 2017". worldgrandprix.2017.fivb.com. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  2. "Megan Courtney Bio :: Penn State :: Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on 2018-08-08. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  3. "Megan Courtney Bio :: Penn State :: Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on 2018-08-08. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  4. "Megan Courtney". Team USA. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  5. "Impel Wrocław | Megan Courtney przyjmującą Impel Wrocław". impelwroclaw.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
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