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2020-21 Volleyball Roster

Mark Olencki
Tim Cowie
Tim Cowie

8 Emily Durham

  • Position Defensive Specialist/Libero
  • Class Senior
  • Height 5-9
  • High School Middle Creek HS
  • Hometown Raleigh, N.C.

Biography

2020-21: Made appearances in 16 matches, including seven starts, and played in 61 sets … Finished third on team in digs (122) … Averaged 2.00 digs per set … Tallied 32 kills, eight service aces and six assists … Notched a season-high 15 digs versus Chattanooga (2/8) … Recorded two kills and nine digs against ETSU (2/21) … Dished an assist and corralled 14 digs at Western Carolina (2/24) … Notched four kills, nine digs and an ace against The Citadel (2/28) … Added six kills, an assist, ace, three digs and two blocks at UNCG (3/14) … Registered a career-best seven kills, four digs and one block against Furman (3/21) … Recorded 12 digs in five sets in SoCon Semifinals against Samford (4/2).

2019: Appeared in all 31 matches, totaling 116 sets played seeing time at libero and outside hitter ... Second on the team with a career-high 335 digs ... Dished out 58 assists and had 32 service aces in the process ... Recorded 10 or more digs 16 times ... Totaled 19 in four sets at Duke to go with three assists ... Recorded 18 digs and six assists in three sets against UNC Wilmington ...Totaled 18 digs, three service aces and two assists in win over Alabama A&M ... Had 15 digs and two assists in four sets against Gardner-Webb ... Totaled 28 digs and two assists against Davidson ... Recorded 12 digs and handed out four assists in three-set win at Furman ... Racked up a season and career-high 30 digs at ETSU ... Totaled 21 digs and three aces in four sets at The Citadel ... Had five service aces against UNCG ... Helped Wofford defeat Furman in four sets with nine digs and two service aces ... Recorded eight digs, two assists and two aces in four-set win over The Citadel ... Totaled eight digs in four sets at Chattanooga. 

2018: Appeared in 29 of 30 matches, totaling 90 sets played ... Recorded 55 digs, 18 service aces and six kills ... Opened the season with four digs and a service ace against Tulsa ... Had 3 digs against Bowling Green, Georgia Tech and Illinois Chicago ... Totaled four digs at Samford and five at Western Carolina ... Set a career-high 13 digs at UNCG ... Totaled two service aces against Western Carolina, Mercer and The Citadel ... Recorded three aces at The Citadel and against Samford.

2017: Saw action in 29 matches and 102 sets ... Tallied 59 digs, 11 kills, nine aces and two blocks ... Made her collegiate debut in the season opener against George Washington and played four sets ... Played in three sets at Tennessee ... Played five sets in Wofford's first win of the season over Western Michigan and had four aces and four digs ... Saw action in all three sets of a sweep at Winthrop ... Had one ace and one dig in the sweep of USC Upstate ... Had three kills, two digs and one block in the sweep of NC Central ... Tallied four digs in the win over Gardner-Webb ... Hit .143 with three kills and five digs against Florida Gulf Coast ... Had three digs in the win over Georgia ... Had one dig against Davidson ... Hit .333 with four kills, eight digs, two assists and one ace in the 3-0 win over SC State ... Played three sets at Mercer ... Played two sets at Samford ... Had two digs in three sets against Presbyterian ... Tallied two digs and one ace in five sets against UNCG ... Had one dig against Western Carolina ... Played one set against ETSU at home ... Had one ace and one dig against Chattanooga ... Saw action at Furman and at home against Samford ... Had two digs in the home finale against Mercer and in the next game at The Citadel ... Tallied four digs at Western Carolina and one at UNCG ... Had one kill at Chattanooga ... Finished with four digs and one ace in the season finale at ETSU ... Tallied three digs against Samford in the SoCon quarterfinals and two digs in the upset of No. 1 Furman in the SoCon semifinals ... Finished with seven digs against ETSU in the SoCon finals.  

Prior to Wofford: Lettered four seasons at Middle Creek High School ... Named Second Team All-Conference in her junior season and First Team All-Conference in her senior campaign ... Also played beach volleyball where she was named North Carolina's offensive player of the year in 2015 and was the MVP of the team in her junior and senior seasons.

Personal: Born Sept. 6, 1999 in Raleigh, N.C ... Daughter of Brian and Lori Durham ... Sister, Lauren, plays beach volleyball at Stetson ... Majoring in Physics and Mathematics. 

Honors & Awards: 
- Phi Beta Kappa Honoree
- 2020-21 Academic All-Southern Conference Team; Academic Honor Roll; Commissioner's Medal (3.8 GPA or higher)
- 2017-18 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 8

    2017Freshman

    Outside Hitter
    5'9"
    8
  • 8

    2018Sophomore

    Outside Hitter
    5'9"
    8
  • 8

    2019Junior

    Outside Hitter
    5'9"
    8
  • 8

    2020Senior

    Defensive Specialist/Libero
    5'9"
    8