2019 Women's Volleyball Roster

Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics
Yamlak Tsega / XULA Athletics

6 Tiffany Phillips

  • Position Setter
  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • High School Bishop Montgomery
  • Hometown Gardena, Calif.
  • Major Biology / Chemistry / Pre-Medical

Biography

Honors
•  Second-team All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference in 2016
•  2016 GCAC Setter of the Year
•  2019 All-GCAC Tournament
•  GCAC Setter of the Week six times in 2016, four times in 2017, once in 2018 and once in 2019
•  XULA Sister Grace Mary Flickinger Honor Roll in 2017 and 2019

Briefly
•  Four-year letterwinner at XULA
•  Starter in 2016; split time at setter with Eva Le Guillou in 2017
•  Her 12 career GCAC weekly awards are No. 2 all-time in XULA volleyball
•  XULA career rankings after conclusion of 2019 season: No. 3 with 1,882 assists, No. 4 with 5.88 assists per set, No. 6 with 110 matches played, tied for 10th with 71 aces, tied for eighth with 320 sets played
•  Helped Gold Nuggets win GCAC regular-season and tournament championships in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and qualify for the NAIA National Championship tournament all three years

2019 (Senior)
•  Produced 385 assists, 14 kills, 11 aces, 121 digs and two blocks in 31 matches (90 sets)
•  22 matches with 10-or-more assists
•  Had season-high 24 assists Aug. 23 in four-set victory against Keiser at STU Invitational in Miami Gardens, Fla.
•  Produced two double-doubles, including 14 assists and season-high 15 digs against ninth-ranked Columbia (Mo.) during pool play at NAIA National Championship Final Site
•  Had 14 assists, two kills and an ace in victory against Dillard during GCAC Tournament championship match
•  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 (Junior)
•  Produced 202 assists, 20 kills, 12 aces, 61 digs and four blocks in 21 matches (42 sets) . . . Hit .526 with zero errors in 38 attacks
•  10 matches with 10-or-more assists . . . XULA was 9-1 in those matches
•  Has 17 assists, 14 digs and season-high three aces in five-set home victory Aug. 31 against Point during Big Easy Blastoff
•  Had season-high 21 assists Sept. 29 in three-set GCAC victory at Edward Waters
•  Produced three kills in as many attempts and had 19 assists Sept. 8 in a four-set victory against Life at the University of Mobile Invitational
•  Had 14 assists Nov. 1 in home victory against Tougaloo that helped XULA clinch share of GCAC regular-season championship

2017 (Sophomore)
•  Named preseason All-GCAC
•  Produced 461 assists, 23 kills, 27 aces and 194 digs in 26 matches (88 sets)
•  One of three Gold Nuggets to play in every set
•  Produced team-best 10 assist-dig double-doubles, five in the season's first seven matches
•  Led or shared team lead in assists in 10 of first 11 matches
•  Her 29 assists at home against Tougaloo in the GCAC opener — a three-set XULA victory — were the most in a match by a XULA player in 2017
•  Produced 24 assists and career-high 18 digs in four-set victory vs. Lawrence Tech at UM-Dearborn Early Bird (Aug. 26, 2017)
•  Has 12 assists, 11 digs and a career-best seven aces Nov. 2 in the regular-season finale, a three-set GCAC victory at city rival Dillard

2016 (Freshman)
•  Led the GCAC with 8.34 assists per set
•  Third on her team with 21 aces and 12 matches with 10-or-more digs
•  Also contributed 79 kills, 233 digs and 22 blocks
•  Set XULA season record with six GCAC weekly awards
•  Began collegiate career with assist-dig doubles in each of her first six matches and finished the season with a school-record 12
•  Produced career-best 46 assists — plus 14 assists — in four-set victory vs. Tennessee Wesleyan at Hotel Indigo at the Alamo Saints Classic in San Antonio (Aug. 20, 2016)
•  Helped XULA win GCAC regular-season and tournament championships and qualify for NAIA National Championship

Club
•  Played five total years beginning in seventh grade — one year with Club Troy, three with Mizuno Long Beach and one with Santa Monica

High School
•  Started as a junior and senior and played four varsity seasons
•  Competed three varsity seasons in track and field — 200-meter dash and 1,600 relay
•  Recipient of her school's scholar-athlete award
•  Student government treasurer as a junior and and senior class president
•  Logged approximately 400 service hours with Bishop Montgomery's Concordia Christian Service Club

Personal
•  Interested in a career in pediatrics
•  Spent summer of 2019 conducting research during an internship at Colgate-Palmolive in Piscataway, N.J.
•  Spent nearly eight weeks during the summer of 2018 at the University of California, Davis campus as a student research intern in its department of chemistry . . . She studied human breast milk proteins under the tutelage of Dr. Carlito Lebrilla and graduate student Elisha Goonatilleke . . . UC Davis paid for all of Phillips's academic expenses
•  Also played one year of beach volleyball
•  Collects teddy bears, one from every state she's visited . . . her total is more than 30

XULA
Tiffany Phillips

XULA
Tiffany Phillips

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2016Freshman

    S/DS
    5'9"
    6
  • 6

    2017Sophomore

    Setter
    5'9"
    6
  • 6

    2018Junior

    Setter
    5'9"
    6
  • 6

    2019Senior

    Setter
    5'9"
    6