Ally Lunsford
16 Ally Lunsford
  • Height:
    6-1
  • Year:
    Sr.
  • Hometown:
    Minneola, Fla.
  • High School:
    Lake Minneola
  • Position:
    MB
  • m
    27
  • k/s
    2.26
  • h %
    .295
  • a/s
    0.04
  • b/s
    0.86
  • sa/s
    0.01
  • d/s
    0.33

Bio

2017 (Senior)
Third-team CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree … NEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll selection … Saw action in 27 matches for the Bulldogs … Posted a season-high 233 kills (2.26 per set) … Posted 89 blocks on the season (0.86 per set) including nine matches of five or more … Finished third in the NEC with a .295 hitting percentage … Recorded 10 or more kills in all three matches of the Hampton Inn-vitational (9/8-9) … Hit .556 with 10 attacks and zero errors in the win over Manhattan (9/8) … Tallied 12 kills on a .550 hitting percentage in a sweep of Providence (9/19) … Recorded her two highest block totals of the season in the pair of comeback wins over Sacred Heart, notching seven in Fairfield (10/7) and nine on Senior Day in Smithfield (11/4) … Had 10 or more kills in four of her final six matches.

2016 (Junior)
Appeared in 85 sets in 26 matches, earning 21 starts ... Finished with a team-high 71.0 blocks, including seven solo rejections ... Totaled 179 kills (2.11 per set), nine assists, 10 aces and 28 digs ... Tallied double-digit kills on five occasions and at least one block in 24 matches ... Named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll.

2015 (Sophomore)
Appeared in all 33 matches, earning 31 starts ... Totaled 155 kills while posting the first 100-block season of her career, finishing the year with 108 (0.91/set) ... Posted 10 solo blocks and 98 block assists, including two eight-stuff performances against Dartmouth and Sacred Heart ... Ranked seventh in the league and second on the squad in hitting percentage (.251) ... Served up 19 aces ... Added 46 digs and totalled 233 points (1.96/set).

2014 (Freshman)
Appeared in 30 matches as a rookie, earning 29 starts ... Totalled 160 kills while leading the team at the net with 94 blocks (10 solo, 84 assists) ... Posted nine stuffs twice ... Hit double-digit kills on two occasions ... Added three aces and 21 digs ... Averaged 2.09 poinst per set ... NEC Rookie of the Week ... Named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll.

Before Bryant
Lunsford was a four-year varsity letterwinner and two-year starter at Lake Minneola High School ... Captained the Hawks in each of her final three years, leading them to back-to-back district championships in 2011 and 2012 ... Set a school record with 160 blocks ... Named the team's defensive MVP in 2010 ... TSVA Most Improved Player in 2009 and TSVA Most Spirited Player in 2010 ... AP Scholar with honors ... Summa Cum Laude ... National Honor Society member ... Plays club for Top Select.

Personal
Daughter of David Lunsford and Diana Lunsford Turner.

Career Single-Match Highs
Kills: 14, 4x, last vs. Central Connecticut, 11/17/17
Assists: 1, 21x, last at Saint Francis U, 11/11/17
Aces: 4, vs. Iona, 8/29/15
Digs: 6, vs. Saint Francis U, 10/22/16
Blocks: 9, 4x, last vs. Sacred Heart, 11/4/17

Player Profile

Recent Games
Oct 28 at Long Island L, 3-1
Nov 3 FDU W, 3-0
Nov 4 Sacred Heart W, 3-2
Nov 10 at Robert Morris W, 3-0
Nov 11 at Saint Francis U W, 3-1
Nov 17 vs. No. 3 Central Connecticut L, 3-2
  Overall Conf
Matches 27 14
Sets 103 56
Kills 233 123
Kills per set 2.26 2.20
Errors 62 38
Total Attacks 580 311
Hitting Percentage .295 .273
Assists 4 4
Assists per set 0.04 0.07
Service Aces 1 0
Service Errors 4 2
Service Aces per set 0.01 0.00
Receptions 4 3
Reception Errors 2 1
Digs 34 17
Digs per set 0.33 0.30
Block Solo 9 4
Block Assist 80 47
Block Total 89 51
Blocks per set 0.86 0.91
Block Errors 7 5
Ball Handling Errors 1 1
Points 283.0 150.5
Points per set 2.7 2.7
Matches started 25 14
Date Opponent Score ms s k e ta pct a sa se r re digs bs ba be tot bhe pts
Aug 25 vs. Drake L, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Aug 26 vs. UC Riverside W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Aug 26 vs. Cal St. Fullerton L, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Aug 29 Quinnipiac W, 3-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sep 1 vs. North Texas L, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sep 1 at Boston College L, 3-2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sep 2 vs. Princeton L, 3-0 - 3 4 1 11 .273 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4.5
Sep 5 at New Hampshire L, 3-0 1 3 4 0 11 .364 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 3 0 6.0
Sep 8 Manhattan W, 3-0 - 3 10 0 18 .556 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 12.0
Sep 9 Stony Brook W, 3-1 1 4 12 2 22 .455 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 5 0 14.5
Sep 9 Brown W, 3-2 1 5 14 6 38 .211 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 4 0 16.0
Sep 12 Holy Cross W, 3-0 1 3 4 0 23 .174 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.0
Sep 15 vs. Syracuse W, 3-2 1 5 11 2 21 .429 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 12.0
Sep 16 at Hofstra L, 3-0 1 3 7 2 18 .278 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 8.0
Sep 16 vs. Binghamton W, 3-1 1 4 8 2 22 .273 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 5 1 5 0 10.5
Sep 19 Providence W, 3-0 1 3 12 1 20 .550 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 2 0 13.5
Sep 22 St. Francis Brooklyn W, 3-0 1 3 7 1 18 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 9.5
Sep 23 Long Island W, 3-2 1 5 8 3 30 .167 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 9.5
Sep 26 at UMass Lowell L, 3-0 1 3 6 5 19 .053 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 6.5
Sep 29 Central Connecticut W, 3-1 1 4 14 2 29 .414 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 5 0 5 0 16.5
Oct 6 at FDU W, 3-1 1 4 9 3 23 .261 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 3 0 3 0 10.5
Oct 7 at Sacred Heart W, 3-2 1 5 9 8 28 .036 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 7 0 7 0 12.5
Oct 13 Robert Morris W, 3-0 1 3 7 1 16 .375 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 7.5
Oct 14 Saint Francis U L, 3-2 1 5 10 4 32 .188 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 11.0
Oct 20 at Central Connecticut L, 3-2 1 5 7 6 27 .037 1 0 0 - 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 8.0
Oct 24 at Hartford W, 3-0 1 3 4 2 14 .143 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 4 0 6 0 9.0
Oct 27 at St. Francis Brooklyn W, 3-0 1 3 6 2 11 .364 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 5 0 5 0 8.5
Oct 28 at Long Island L, 3-1 1 4 10 3 20 .350 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 3 0 11.5
Nov 3 FDU W, 3-0 1 3 10 1 19 .474 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 10.5
Nov 4 Sacred Heart W, 3-2 1 5 9 1 22 .364 0 0 0 - 0 0 2 7 0 9 0 14.5
Nov 10 at Robert Morris W, 3-0 1 3 6 2 12 .333 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 5 0 9.0
Nov 11 at Saint Francis U W, 3-1 1 4 11 1 24 .417 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 1 0 11.5
Nov 17 vs. No. 3 Central Connecticut L, 3-2 1 5 14 1 32 .406 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 16.0
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
2014-15 30 103 160 1.55 79 438 .185 6 0.06 3 0.03 3 0 21 0.20 10 84 94 0.91 215.0 2.1
2015-16 33 119 155 1.30 54 397 .254 2 0.02 19 0.16 14 1 46 0.39 10 98 108 0.91 233.0 2.0
2016-17 26 85 179 2.11 54 380 .329 9 0.11 10 0.12 7 1 28 0.33 7 64 71 0.84 228.0 2.7
2017-18 27 103 233 2.26 62 580 .295 4 0.04 1 0.01 4 2 34 0.33 9 80 89 0.86 283.0 2.7
Total 116 410 727 1.77 249 1795 .266 21 0.05 33 0.08 28 4 129 0.31 36 326 362 0.88 959.0 2.3
    m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
Event Total 27 103 233 2.26 62 580 .295 4 0.04 1 0.01 4 2 34 0.33 9 80 89 0.86 283.0 2.7
Conference 14 56 123 2.20 38 311 .273 4 0.07 0 0.00 3 1 17 0.30 4 47 51 0.91 150.5 2.7
Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Location Home 12 46 117 2.54 22 287 .331 2 0.04 0 0.00 0 0 12 0.26 4 36 40 0.87 139.0 3.0
Away 11 40 79 1.98 34 207 .217 2 0.05 1 0.03 4 2 16 0.40 4 34 38 0.95 101.0 2.5
Neutral 4 17 37 2.18 6 86 .360 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 6 0.35 1 10 11 0.65 43.0 2.5
Result Wins 19 72 171 2.38 40 410 .320 3 0.04 1 0.01 3 1 27 0.38 7 65 72 1.00 211.5 2.9
Losses 8 31 62 2.00 22 170 .235 1 0.03 0 0.00 1 1 7 0.23 2 15 17 0.55 71.5 2.3
Month September 14 51 121 2.37 27 300 .313 1 0.02 0 0.00 1 1 18 0.35 3 38 41 0.80 143.0 2.8
October 8 32 62 1.94 29 171 .193 1 0.03 1 0.03 1 1 13 0.41 2 27 29 0.91 78.5 2.5
November 5 20 50 2.50 6 109 .404 2 0.10 0 0.00 2 0 3 0.15 4 15 19 0.95 61.5 3.1

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Photos

Ally Lunsford action photo 1

Photo by Greg Barlow

  • Holy Cross vs. Bryant
Ally Lunsford action photo 2

Photo by Greg Barlow

  • Holy Cross vs. Bryant
Ally Lunsford action photo 3

Photos by DSPics.com

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