Honors
• Second-team All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference in 2019
• 2019 GCAC Newcomer of the Year
• 2019 Louisiana Newcomer of the Year
• GCAC Attacker of the Week twice in 2019 (Sept. 30-Oct. 6 and Oct. 21-27)
• 2019 Big Easy Blastoff all-tournament team
Briefly
• First year at XULA
• Transfer from two-year Otero Junior College of La Junta, Colo.
• Played for NCAA Division II's Academy of Art (San Francisco) in 2016
• Two-year college totals prior to XULA: 559 kills, 60 assists, 77 aces, 489 digs and 97 blocks
in 55 matches/182 sets
2019 (Junior — XULA)
• Hit .207 with 272 kills, 58 aces (led team), 203 digs and 57 blocks in 35 matches (110 sets)
• Led Louisiana in aces
• Only Louisiana player in 2019 — and the first in XULA history —
to reach 200 kills, 50 aces, 200 digs and 50 blocks in the same season
• NAIA rankings: 16th with 0.53 aces per set, 17th with 58 total aces
• Led the GCAC in aces and aces per set
• Match highs: 17 kills, .407 hitting, eight aces, 18 digs, seven blocks
• Had 11 kills, 13 digs, three aces and seven blocks in a four-set victory
against Keiser Aug. 23 . . . that made Causevic the only XULA player to produce:
— 7-or-more blocks and 6-or-more digs in the same match
— 7-or-more blocks and 3-or-more aces in the same match
— 7-or-more blocks and a kill-dig double-double in the same match
• Served six of her eight aces in the final set on the road to help XULA
complete its first-ever season sweep of longtime nemesis Mobile
• Helped Gold Nuggets win a school-record 31 matches (31-9 overall) and
become the first XULA team to reach the NAIA National Championship Final Site
• Helped XULA repeat as GCAC regular-season and tournament champion
• Helped XULA attain its highest-ever national ranking: among "others receiving
votes" (29th place) in the NAIA postseason coaches poll (Dec. 12, 2019)
2018 (Sophomore — Otero JC)
• Ranked fifth in the NJCAA with 4.09 kills per set and second with 4.9 points per set
• Produced 393 kills, 43 aces, 63 blocks and 310 digs for a 24-7 team
• 22 matches of 10-or-more kills and 13 kill-dig double-doubles
2016 (Freshman — Academy of Art)
• Had 166 kills, 34 aces, 179 digs and 34 blocks
Club
• Helped Volleyro Casal De Pazzi finish eighth in Italy's under-18 championships
• At age 17 she had 30 kills in a match in a five-set B-1 league match
Personal
• Born in Zagreb, Croatia; moved to Ravenna, Italy, at age 5
• Pronunciation of last name: COSSA-vick
• Her parents, Nurko (father) and Jozica (mother), are volleyball coaches
Ema Causevic
Ema Causevic
