Erika Ward

12 Erika Ward

Height:

5-1
Year:

Sr.
Hometown:

Rochester, Mich.
High School:

Stoney Creek
Position:

L/DS

m

11
k/s

0.05
h %

.222
a/s

0.84
b/s

0.00
sa/s

0.14
d/s

5.19

Bio

2021 (Senior)
Appeared in all 11 matches and 43 sets for the Bulldogs in 2021 … Led the team as a captain … Ranked third in the NEC averaging 5.27 digs per set and second in the conference with 223 digs … Posted a career-best 34 digs against Central Connecticut to go along with four assists and two kills … Tallied a season-high of five assists on two occasions against both Merrimack and LIU … Earned back-to-back NEC Defensive Player of the Week nods … Selected as a candidate for the 2021 Senior CLASS award … Named to Bryant’s All-Decade team.

2019 (Junior)
Earned NEC Commissioner's Honor Roll distinction ... Appeared in 31 of 32 matches and 103 sets … Broke Bryant’s Division I career digs mark in November and concludes her junior season with 1,412 … Recorded a team-high 3.68 digs per set in 2019 … Averaged ranked sixth in the NEC … Added 0.24 aces per set … Collected 10+ digs in 22 matches, including each of the final 10 contests of the season … Four matches of 20+ digs, highlighted by a season-high 24 in a win over Central Connecticut … Double-double of 22 digs and a career-high 15 assists in the victory at Saint Francis U … Recorded a season-high four aces on four consecutive points during the third set of the sweep of North Dakota.

2018 (Sophomore)
Named a second-team All-NEC selection and earned a spot on the NEC Commissioner’s Honor Roll … NEC All-Tournament honoree … Two-time Molten/NEC Defensive Player of the Week (Aug. 27, Oct. 15) … Appeared in 33 matches and 129 sets … Became the first player in program history to reach 1,000 career digs as a sophomore … Averaged 4.10 digs, 1.12 assists and 0.23 aces per set as the Bulldogs’ primary libero … Eight matches of 20 or more digs … Recorded a double-double of 16 digs and 10 assists in the win over Marist (Aug. 31) … Tallied 20 digs in a sweep of Coppin State (Sept. 8) … Notched 25 digs over four sets against Colgate (Sept. 15) … Had 22 digs in a road sweep of Central Connecticut (Oct. 12) … Collected 25 digs in a win at Saint Francis U (Oct. 19) and 28 in a victory at Sacred Heart (Nov. 2) … Posted a career-high 32 digs in the NEC Semifinal victory over Central Connecticut (Nov. 16) and 17 in the title match against Sacred Heart (Nov. 17) … Recorded 13 digs in the NCAA First Round at No. 2 Minnesota (Nov. 30).

2017 (Freshman)
NEC Academic Honor Roll selection … Appeared in 33 matches and 123 sets for the Bulldogs … Led the Bulldogs with 477 digs (3.98 per set) … Totaled 113 assists (0.92 per set) and 24 aces (0.20 per set … 24 matches of 10 or more digs and nine of 20 or more … Averaged 6.00 digs per set in the opening weekend of the season to earn Molten/NEC Rookie of the Week honors … Posted dig totals of 21 (Stony Brook) and 23 (Brown) in the second day of the Hampton Inn-vitational (9/9) … The 23 digs in the win over Brown were a career-high, matched a week later in the win over Binghamton (9/16) … Notched a career-high four aces in the victory over LIU Brooklyn (9/23) … Tallied 22 digs and a career-high 12 assists in the win over Fairleigh Dickinson (10/6) … Closed the year with 20-dig performances against Saint Francis U (11/11) and Central Connecticut (11/17).

Before Bryant
Ward was a three-year varsity letterwinner and two-year starter at Stoney Creek High School … Helped the program earn its first-ever Oakland Athletic Association (OAA) Red Division title and first appearance in the district finals in 2015 … Team returned to the district finals in 2016 … Led the Cougars to 2016 Rochester City Cup Championship … Holds school records for digs in a career (1,312) and digs in a season (741) … Named a 2017 Ultra Ankle JVA All-National Team pick, recognizing the top JVA players in the nation ... Named an all-state second team selection as a senior … All-state honorable mention as a junior … Two-time all-region pick (2015, 2016) … 2015 and 2016 All-OAA Red Division nod … Earned MVP award as a senior … Two-time captain … Four-time OAA Scholar-Athlete … National Honor Society member … Played club for Michigan Elite Volleyball Academy … High school and club teammate of fellow Bulldog Mackenzie Wild.

Personal
Daughter of Angela and Jim Ward … Has one brother, Evan, and one sister, Alexa.

Career Single-Match Highs
Kills: 2, vs. Central Connecticut, 3/23/21
Assists: 15, at Saint Francis U, 11/2/19
Aces: 4, 4x, last vs. North Dakota, 9/6/19
Digs: 34, vs. Central Connecticut, 3/23/21
Blocks: --

Player Profile

Recent Games
Mar 23	Central Connecticut	W, 3-2
Mar 23	Central Connecticut	L, 3-1
Mar 26	at St. Francis Brooklyn
Mar 26	at St. Francis Brooklyn
Mar 31	vs. Long Island	W, 3-2
Mar 31	vs. Long Island	L, 3-1

	Overall	Conf
Matches	11	10
Sets	43	39
Kills	2	2
Kills per set	0.05	0.05
Errors	0	0
Total Attacks	9	8
Hitting Percentage	.222	.250
Assists	36	33
Assists per set	0.84	0.85
Service Aces	6	4
Service Errors	8	8
Service Aces per set	0.14	0.10
Receptions	189	159
Reception Errors	5	5
Digs	223	203
Digs per set	5.19	5.21
Block Solo	0	0
Block Assist	0	0
Block Total	0	0
Blocks per set	0.00	0.00
Block Errors	0	0
Ball Handling Errors	2	2
Points	8.0	6.0
Points per set	0.2	0.2
Matches started	-	-

Date	Opponent	Score	ms	s	k	e	ta	pct	a	sa	se	r	re	digs	bs	ba	be	tot	bhe	pts
Feb 14	at Providence	L, 3-1	-	4	0	0	1	.000	3	2	0	30	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	2.0
Mar 1	Merrimack	W, 3-0	-	3	0	0	0	-	4	1	1	5	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	1.0
Mar 1	Merrimack	W, 3-0	-	3	0	0	0	-	5	1	1	11	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	1.0
Mar 8	at Sacred Heart	L, 3-0	-	3	0	0	0	-	1	0	0	18	2	16	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Mar 8	at Sacred Heart	L, 3-0	-	3	0	0	0	-	3	0	1	15	0	19	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Mar 17	at FDU	W, 3-2	-	5	0	0	0	-	3	0	1	27	3	21	0	0	0	0	1	0.0
Mar 17	at FDU	W, 3-1	-	4	0	0	0	-	4	0	0	16	0	28	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Mar 23	Central Connecticut	W, 3-2	-	5	2	0	2	1.000	4	0	1	18	0	34	0	0	0	0	0	2.0
Mar 23	Central Connecticut	L, 3-1	-	4	0	0	0	-	2	0	1	16	0	23	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Mar 26	at St. Francis Brooklyn		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mar 26	at St. Francis Brooklyn		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mar 31	vs. Long Island	W, 3-2	-	5	0	0	3	.000	2	0	0	19	0	27	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Mar 31	vs. Long Island	L, 3-1	-	4	0	0	3	.000	5	2	2	14	0	21	0	0	0	0	1	2.0

	m	s	k	k/s	e	ta	pct	a	a/s	sa	sa/s	r	re	digs	d/s	pts	pts/s
2017-18	33	123	2	0.02	4	9	-.222	113	0.92	24	0.20	592	25	477	3.88	26.0	0.2
2018-19	33	129	2	0.02	1	9	.111	169	1.31	33	0.26	567	28	556	4.31	35.0	0.3
2019-20	31	103	1	0.01	2	19	-.053	123	1.19	25	0.24	525	15	379	3.68	26.0	0.3
2020-21	11	43	2	0.05	0	9	.222	36	0.84	6	0.14	189	5	223	5.19	8.0	0.2
Total	108	398	7	0.02	7	46	.000	441	1.11	88	0.22	1873	73	1635	4.11	95.0	0.2

		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	11	43	2	0.05	0	9	.222	36	0.84	6	0.14	189	5	223	5.19	0	0	0	0.00	8.0	0.2
	Conference	10	39	2	0.05	0	8	.250	33	0.85	4	0.10	159	5	203	5.21	0	0	0	0.00	6.0	0.2
	Exhibition	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Location	Home	4	15	2	0.13	0	2	1.000	15	1.00	2	0.13	50	0	71	4.73	0	0	0	0.00	4.0	0.3
	Away	5	19	0	0.00	0	1	.000	14	0.74	2	0.11	106	5	104	5.47	0	0	0	0.00	2.0	0.1
	Neutral	2	9	0	0.00	0	6	.000	7	0.78	2	0.22	33	0	48	5.33	0	0	0	0.00	2.0	0.2
Result	Wins	6	25	2	0.08	0	5	.400	22	0.88	2	0.08	96	3	124	4.96	0	0	0	0.00	4.0	0.2
Result	Losses	5	18	0	0.00	0	4	.000	14	0.78	4	0.22	93	2	99	5.50	0	0	0	0.00	4.0	0.2
Month	February	1	4	0	0.00	0	1	.000	3	0.75	2	0.50	30	0	20	5.00	0	0	0	0.00	2.0	0.5
Month	March	10	39	2	0.05	0	8	.250	33	0.85	4	0.10	159	5	203	5.21	0	0	0	0.00	6.0	0.2