Emma McGovern
3 Emma McGovern
  • Height:
    5-10
  • Year:
    Sr.
  • Hometown:
    Long Beach, N.Y.
  • High School:
    Long Beach
  • Position:
    OH
  • m
    30
  • k/s
    1.51
  • h %
    .141
  • a/s
    0.14
  • b/s
    0.23
  • sa/s
    0.21
  • d/s
    2.06

Bio

2022 (Senior): Played in 30 matches and 101 sets... Finished with 153 kills, 1.51 kills per set, 208 digs, 2.06 digs per set, 21 aces, and a career-high 0.21 aces per set... Twice set season-high with 13 kills (8/26 vs. Miami (Fla.), 10/30 at New Hampshire)... Tied career-high with 17 digs on 9/16 vs. Syracuse, one of six matches with 10+ digs... Recieved 25 serves with no errors on 9/2 vs. Harvard, her best mark of the year... Named to the America East All-Tournament Team and CSC Academic All-District Team... Finished senior season seventh in D-I program history with 793 kills and 2.21 kills per set.

2021 (Junior): Played in all 32 matches and 118 sets for the Bulldogs... Third on the team with 283 kills and 2.41 kills per set... Also had 23 service aces and 47 total blocks... Set career highs in kills, assists, blocks, and total points... Set single game career highs with four service aces (Holy Cross, 9/4) and 17 digs (Sacred Heart, 11/20) and tied career highs with 18 kills (Sacred Heart, 9/24) and five blocks (Quinnipiac, 8/28)... Posted double-digit kills 14 times, and multiple aces in a match six times.

2020-21 (Sophomore): Named First Team All-NEC … Appeared in 10 matches and 39 sets during the condensed 2021 spring season … Averaged 3.15 kills per set … Produced a career-high 18 kills against LIU off a hitting percentage of .250 … Matched her career-best of five blocks on two occasions against Central Connecticut and LIU … Led the team in kills in seven of Bryant’s 11 matches and tallied double-figure kills in all but two matches … Posted her best hitting percentage of .480 (15-3-25) against Merrimack.

2019 (Freshman): Earned NEC Commissioner's Honor Roll distinction ... Appeared in 31 of 32 matches and 101 sets on the year … Ranked third on the team in kills per set (2.28) and digs per set (2.14) … Added 0.35 blocks per set and 17 aces … Two-time Molten/NEC Rookie of the Week (9/3, 9/9) … Nine matches of 10+ kills … Tallied double-digit digs 10 times on the year, including each of her last six matches … Four double-doubles on the year … All four double-doubles and nine of 10 double-digit kill performances came in NEC play … Raised the kills average to 2.53 per set in conference matches … Season-best 17 kills to help Bryant to a five-set win at St. Francis Brooklyn … Season-high 15 digs at Rhode Island … Recorded a season-best five blocks in the win at Long Island … Season-high three aces vs. Akron and Providence … Earned all-tournament honors at the Hampton Inn-vitational, averaging 2.89 kills and 2.22 digs per set while hitting .288 in a 2-1 weekend.

Before Bryant
Played her high school volleyball at Long Beach (N.Y.) High School … Newsday first-team All-Long Island selection in 2018 … All-state honoree in 2018 … Second-team All-LI in 2017 … Helped Long Beach to its first Class AA state championship in 2018 in the program's first undefeated season … Nassau Class AA county champions and LIC Class AA finalists in 2017 … Her brother, Matt, runs cross country and track & field at Bryant … Plays her club volleyball for Sportime VBC.

Personal
Daughter of Claire and Thomas McGovern ... Has two brothers, Thomas and Matthew ... Matthew ran cross country and track at Bryant from 2015-19 ... Intends to major in biology.

Career Single-Match Highs
Kills: 18, 2x, last vs. Sacred Heart, 9/24/21
Assists: 4, 2x, vs. Syracuse, 9/16/22
Aces: 4, vs. Holy Cross, 9/4/21
Digs: 17, 2x, last vs. Syracuse, 9/16/22
Blocks: 5, 4x, last vs. Quinnipiac, 8/28/21

Player Profile

Recent Games
Oct 30 at New Hampshire L, 3-1
Nov 2 at Hartford W, 3-0
Nov 6 at NJIT W, 3-0
Nov 11 UMBC W, 3-2
Nov 13 Binghamton L, 3-0
Nov 19 vs. #2 UMBC L, 3-1
  Overall Conf
Matches 30 9
Sets 101 27
Kills 153 57
Kills per set 1.51 2.11
Errors 91 29
Total Attacks 439 160
Hitting Percentage .141 .175
Assists 14 6
Assists per set 0.14 0.22
Service Aces 21 9
Service Errors 22 3
Service Aces per set 0.21 0.33
Receptions 493 112
Reception Errors 23 8
Digs 208 65
Digs per set 2.06 2.41
Block Solo 0 0
Block Assist 23 7
Block Total 23 7
Blocks per set 0.23 0.26
Block Errors 2 1
Ball Handling Errors 0 0
Points 185.5 69.5
Points per set 1.8 2.6
Matches started 20 8
Date Opponent Score ms s k e ta pct a sa se r re digs bs ba be tot bhe pts
Aug 26 vs. Miami (Fla.) L, 3-0 1 3 13 6 27 .259 1 1 0 13 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 14.5
Aug 26 vs. Niagara L, 3-0 1 3 3 3 14 .000 0 1 0 27 3 8 0 1 0 1 0 4.5
Aug 27 at Hofstra W, 3-1 1 4 8 5 17 .176 0 1 2 41 1 11 0 1 0 1 0 9.5
Aug 30 Stonehill W, 3-0 1 2 4 0 7 .571 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4.0
Sep 2 No. 17 Harvard W, 3-0 1 3 7 5 19 .105 0 1 1 25 0 6 0 2 0 2 0 9.0
Sep 3 Montana St. W, 3-2 1 5 2 3 10 -.100 0 0 5 17 1 4 0 2 0 2 0 3.0
Sep 3 Boston College L, 3-1 - 4 1 4 10 -.300 1 0 3 23 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Sep 6 Brown W, 3-2 - 5 1 1 7 .000 0 0 2 18 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Sep 9 vs. Stonehill W, 3-0 1 3 4 2 6 .333 1 2 1 10 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Sep 9 at St. John's L, 3-0 1 3 8 5 27 .111 0 0 1 35 1 9 0 1 0 1 0 8.5
Sep 10 vs. Southeastern La. L, 3-1 1 3 0 6 9 -.667 0 0 1 12 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sep 13 at Rhode Island W, 3-0 - 3 2 0 2 1.000 0 1 0 9 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Sep 16 vs. Syracuse W, 3-2 - 5 6 5 19 .053 4 0 0 31 1 17 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Sep 17 vs. Lindenwood (Mo.) W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 4 .250 0 2 0 7 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Sep 17 at UConn L, 3-2 - 5 2 0 5 .400 0 0 0 15 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 20 Hartford W, 3-0 - 2 3 2 7 .143 0 0 1 7 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3.5
Sep 28 at Boston College L, 3-2 - 5 9 3 25 .240 1 1 1 21 0 7 0 1 0 1 0 10.5
Oct 1 at UMBC L, 3-0 1 3 5 7 25 -.080 0 0 0 10 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 5.5
Oct 7 UAlbany W, 3-0 1 3 10 3 19 .368 2 1 0 12 1 9 0 1 0 1 0 11.5
Oct 9 New Hampshire W, 3-0 1 3 9 1 17 .471 0 2 1 9 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 11.0
Oct 14 at Binghamton L, 3-0 1 3 1 2 7 -.143 1 1 0 12 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Oct 18 at Central Connecticut W, 3-2 1 5 9 4 32 .156 0 1 0 43 2 14 0 2 0 2 0 11.0
Oct 21 NJIT W, 3-0 1 3 9 3 20 .300 1 0 0 20 2 10 0 1 0 1 0 9.5
Oct 23 at UAlbany W, 3-1 1 4 4 5 16 -.063 0 2 0 16 2 9 0 1 0 1 0 6.5
Oct 26 Merrimack W, 3-0 1 3 7 2 13 .385 0 0 0 6 1 6 0 2 0 2 0 8.0
Oct 30 at New Hampshire L, 3-1 1 4 13 5 38 .211 1 1 1 19 2 9 0 1 0 1 0 14.5
Nov 2 at Hartford W, 3-0 1 3 6 5 18 .056 0 1 0 16 1 4 0 2 0 2 0 8.0
Nov 6 at NJIT W, 3-0 1 3 5 2 15 .200 0 2 1 11 0 9 0 2 1 2 0 8.0
Nov 11 UMBC W, 3-2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nov 13 Binghamton L, 3-0 - 1 1 1 3 .000 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Nov 19 vs. #2 UMBC L, 3-1 - 2 0 1 1 -1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
  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
2019-20 31 101 230 2.28 149 738 .110 13 0.13 17 0.17 611 27 216 2.14 1 34 35 0.35 265.0 2.6
2020-21 10 39 123 3.15 52 341 .208 4 0.10 3 0.08 91 7 39 1.00 4 19 23 0.59 139.5 3.6
2021-22 32 118 284 2.41 151 854 .156 34 0.29 23 0.19 637 30 271 2.30 3 44 47 0.40 332.0 2.8
2022-23 30 101 153 1.51 91 439 .141 14 0.14 21 0.21 493 23 208 2.06 0 23 23 0.23 185.5 1.8
Total 103 359 790 2.20 443 2372 .146 65 0.18 64 0.18 1832 87 734 2.04 8 120 128 0.36 922.0 2.6
    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 30 101 153 1.51 91 439 .141 14 0.14 21 0.21 493 23 208 2.06 0 23 23 0.23 185.5 1.8
Conference 9 27 57 2.11 29 160 .175 6 0.22 9 0.33 112 8 65 2.41 0 7 7 0.26 69.5 2.6
Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Location Home 11 34 54 1.59 25 132 .220 5 0.15 4 0.12 145 8 57 1.68 0 9 9 0.26 62.5 1.8
Away 12 45 72 1.60 43 227 .128 3 0.07 11 0.24 248 9 103 2.29 0 12 12 0.27 89.0 2.0
Neutral 7 22 27 1.23 23 80 .050 6 0.27 6 0.27 100 6 48 2.18 0 2 2 0.09 34.0 1.5
Result Wins 18 62 97 1.56 48 248 .198 8 0.13 16 0.26 303 14 141 2.27 0 17 17 0.27 121.5 2.0
Losses 12 39 56 1.44 43 191 .068 6 0.15 5 0.13 190 9 67 1.72 0 6 6 0.15 64.0 1.6
Month August 4 12 28 2.33 14 65 .215 1 0.08 3 0.25 86 6 22 1.83 0 3 3 0.25 32.5 2.7
September 13 49 46 0.94 36 150 .067 7 0.14 7 0.14 230 5 97 1.98 0 7 7 0.14 56.5 1.2
October 9 31 67 2.16 32 187 .187 5 0.16 8 0.26 147 10 76 2.45 0 9 9 0.29 79.5 2.6
November 4 9 12 1.33 9 37 .081 1 0.11 3 0.33 30 2 13 1.44 0 4 4 0.44 17.0 1.9

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