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2025 Women's Volleyball Roster

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6 Taylor French

  • Position Outside Hitter
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Plainfield East
  • Hometown Romeoville, Ill.

Biography

Has earned three letters (2022, 2023, 2024) ... 

Currently fifth all-time in career kills (1470), third in kills per set (4.16), third in aces (209), first in aces per set (0.59), 13th in digs (1193), 10th in digs per set (3.38), sixth in points (1737.5), and fourth in points per set (4.92) …

Career Highs
Kills -- 29 (Nov. 7, 2023 vs. Augustana)
Points -- 33.5 (Oct. 17, 2023 vs. Elmhurst)
Digs -- 42 (Oct. 28, 2022 vs. Millikin)
Aces -- 7 (Oct. 16, 2024 at North Central & Oct. 18, 2024 vs. UW-Stevens Point)
Total Blocks -- 4 (four times)

National Awards
AVCA Second Team All-American (2023)
AVCA Third Team All-American (2022)
AVCA All-American Honorable Mention (2024)
AVCA/GameChanger National Player of the Week (Oct. 31, 2023, Nov. 7, 2023)
AVCA First Team All-Region 8 (2022, 2023, 2024)
NCAA Marietta Regional All-Tournament Team (2024)

Conference Awards
CCIW Offensive Player of the Year (2023, 2024)
CCIW Newcomer of the Year (2022)
First Team All-CCIW (2022, 2023, 2024)
CCIW Hitter of the Week (Sept. 26, 2022, Oct. 31, 2022, Sept. 5, 2023, Sept. 11, 2023, Oct. 16, 2023, Oct. 23, 2023, Oct. 30, 2023, Nov. 7, 2023, Oct. 7, 2024)

2025: Named to the IWU Tournament I All-Tournament Team ...

2024: Appeared and started in all 34 matches, playing in all 125 sets … Led the team in kills with 506, the sixth-most in a season in program history, while her average of 4.05 kills per set is the ninth-best average in a season … Broke the single-season program record for aces (89) and aces per set (0.71) … Finished second on the team in digs with 381, averaging 3.05 per set … Recorded 36 blocks, composed of one solo and 35 assisted, and 16 assists … Recorded 22 double-double performances … Posted double-digit kills 32 times, and finished with 20+ kills six times … Notched double-digit digs 22 times, and recorded 20+ digs twice … Posted season-highs of 23 kills (Sept. 13 vs. Edgewood), 29 points (Oct. 16 at North Central), 21 digs (Oct. 29 at Carroll), seven aces (Oct. 16 at North Central & Oct. 18 vs. UW-Stevens Point), and four blocks (Sept. 14 at No. 21 Cornell) … Her .615 attack percentage against Wheaton Sept. 18 ranks eighth all-time in a match in program history … Her seven aces against North Central (Oct. 16) and UW-Stevens Point (Oct. 18) rank top-10 all-time in a match in program history, and top-three in five-set and four-set matches, respectively … Her 29 points at North Central (Oct. 16) rank fourth in a match, and in a five-set match, in program history, while her 21.5 points against Franklin & Marshall are third in a three-set match all-time … Named to the Crafted Classic All-Tournament Team ... Named to the Cornell Classic All-Tournament Team ... Named to the IWU Classic All-Tournament Team ... Broke the program record for most CCIW Hitter of the Week honors in a career, earning her ninth weekly accolade Oct. 7, 2024 ... Recorded her 1000th career kill Aug. 31 against Baldwin-Wallace and her 1000th career dig Oc. 11 against Wartburg, becoming the eighth player in program history to achieve the milestone in both statistical categories … Co-Recipient of team's Most Valuable Player award ...

2023: Appeared and started in all 30 matches, and played in 119 sets … Led the CCIW with 637.5 points and 570 kills, the second-most kills in a season in program history … Averaged 4.79 kills per set, the second-best average in program history … Led the team with 425 digs and 48 aces … Recorded 30 blocks composed of nine solo and 21 assisted, and 26 assists … Finished with 21 double-double performances … Notched double-digit kills 27 times and 20+ kills 14 … Her 29 kills vs. Augustana (Nov. 7) are tied for fifth-most kills in a match, and the most in a four set match, in program history … Her 27 kills vs. Elmhurst (Oct. 17) and Aurora (Nov. 4) are tied for 10th-most in a match in program history, with the 27 vs. Elmhurst is tied for the most kills in a five set match in program history … Broke the program record with 33.5 points in a match (Oct. 17 vs. Elmhurst), while her 29 points against Concordia Wisconsin (Sept. 9) and Augustana (Nov. 7) are tied for fourth-most, and her 28 points vs. Bowdoin (Oct. 20), Colby (Oct. 21), and Aurora (Nov. 4) are tied for ninth-most in a match in program history … Recipient of team's "Most Valuable Player" award ... 


2022: Played in 28 matches ... Led the Titans with 394 kills, second-most in the CCIW ... Led the CCIW in aces with 72, fourth-most in a season in program history ... Recorded 387 digs, second-most for the Titans ... Led the Titans in points with 486.5, second-highest in the CCIW ... Finished the season with a .220 hitting percentage ... Broke a 25-year old program record for aces per set in a season with an average of 0.66 ... Her 3.61 kills per set season average is tied for 13th best in program history ... Recorded 1089 attacks in the season, 19th most in program history ... Produced a season-high 25 kills against Coe College, October 1, tied for third-most in a five-set match in program history ... Broke the program record for most points in a match with 32 against Coe College, October 1 ...  Compiled a season-high six service aces against North Park University, October 12, tied for second-most in a four-set match in program history ... Notched a season-best 42 digs against Millikin University, October 28, second-most in a match in program history ... Named to the Mount St. Joseph Invitational All-Tournament team ... Named to the Illinois Wesleyan Classic I All-Tournament team ... Named to the Illinois Wesleyan Classic II All-Tournament ... Named to the Cornell Quadrangular All-Tournament team ... Named to the Illinois Wesleyan Classic III All-Tournament team ... Recorded 17 double-double performances ... 

HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Plainfield East High School …  Three-year letterwinner in volleyball … Four-year letterwinner in basketball … Recipient of the Junior National Volleyball Championship AAU All-Star Award in 2019 and 2021… Named an AAU Academic All-American in 2019 for volleyball … Named to the JVA watch list in 2019 and 2020 … Named to the AVCA phenom list in 2019 and 2020 … Selected to the Under the Dome all-tournament team in 2020 and 2022 … Earned all-conference honors once for volleyball and twice for basketball … Named volleyball team’s MVP senior year …  Named basketball team’s MVP twice … Earned all-area honorable mention for basketball in 2021 and 2022 … Named the most improved player in basketball in 2020 … Member of National Honors Society and the Bengal Athletic Leadership Committee  … 2022 Southwest Prairie Conference scholar athlete … Recipient of President’s Education Awards for Outstanding Academic Achievement … Named to the high honor roll all four years … Helped lead the volleyball team to two regional championships … Named Wilco for CNA student of the semester in 2022 … Southwest Prairie Conference Scholar Athlete … Recipient of President’s Education Awards Program Award for outstanding academic achievement straight A award … Earned high honors all four years … 

PERSONAL: Majoring in elementary education at Illinois Wesleyan … Other interests include basketball, soccer, flag football, and fishing…

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2022Freshman

    Outside Hitter
    6'0"
    6
  • 6

    2023Sophomore

    Outside Hitter
    6'0"
    6
  • 6

    2024Junior

    Outside Hitter
    6'0"
    6
  • 6

    2025Senior

    Outside Hitter
    6'0"
    6