In the News
- 1/9/20: La Jolla Grad Savors NCAA Volleyball Title - John Maffei (San Diego Union-Tribune)
- 12/21/19: Gates Caps Remarkable Move to Stanford by Ripping NCAA-Winning Kill - Travis Mewhirter (VolleyballMag.com)
- 10/22/19: My Stanford Story: Madeleine Gates (VIDEO) - Stanford Athletics
- 8/27/19: Transfer Madeleine Gates Set to Lift Stanford to Back-to-Back NCAA Volleyball Titles - Vicki Friedman (espn.com)
Career Accolades
- NCAA champion (2019)
- Pac-12 champion (2019)
- AVCA All-America second team (2017)
- AVCA All-America third team (2019)
- VolleyballMag.com All-America third team (2019)
- VolleyballMag.com All-America honorable mention (2017)
- AVCA All-Pacific North Region (2019)
- AVCA All-Pacific South Region (2017)
- Two-time All-Pac-12 Conference (2017, 2019)
- All-Pac-12 Conference honorable mention (2018)
- NCAA Stanford Regional All-Tournament Team (2019)
- CofC Classic All-Tournament Team (2019)
- Two-time Preseason All-Pac-12 Conference (2018, 2019)
- Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 7, 2019)
- Two-time Pac-12 All-Academic (2017, 2018)
As a Senior (2019) • NCAA Champions, Pac-12 Champions
- AVCA All-America third team
- VolleyballMag.com All-America honorable mention
- AVCA All-Pacific North Region
- All-Pac-12 Conference
- Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 7)
- CofC Classic All-Tournament Team
- Preseason All-Pac-12 Conference
- Started all 34 matches, playing in 120 sets
- Averaged 2.22 kills on .339 hitting, 1.40 blocks and 3.03 points per set
- Registered double-digit kills in nine matches
- Posted five or more blocks in 19 matches
- Career-high 14 blocks in the NCAA Regional semifinal versus No. 17 Utah (Dec. 13)
- Her 14 blocks versus the Utes tied a Stanford NCAA Tournament single match record (Tami Alade vs. BYU, 2018)
- Hit a career-best .733 (11-0-15) against No. 8 Penn State (Dec. 14) in the NCAA Regional Final
- Recorded the final kill in Stanford's sweep over No. 5 Wisconsin (Dec. 21) in the NCAA championship in Pittsburgh
- In six NCAA Tournament matches, hit .563 with 46 kills on 80 swings with just one error
- An NCAA Division I Tournament record for hitting percentage
USA Volleyball
- Member of the U.S. Collegiate National Team that competed at the World University Games in Naples, Italy (2019)
Prior to Stanford
- Graduated from UCLA in three years with a degree in economics
- AVCA All-America second team (2017)
- VolleyballMag.com All-America honorable mention (2017)
- AVCA Pacific South Region (2017)
- All-Pac-12 Conference (2017)
- All-Pac-12 Conference honorable mention (2018)
- Preseason All-Pac-12 Conference (2018)
- Pac-12 All-Academic first team (2018)
- Pac-12 All-Academic second team (2017)
- Career-high 22 kills at Stanford (Nov. 16, 2017)
- A 2016 graduate of La Jolla High School
- A four-year letterwinner in volleyball
- Reached the semifinals of the CIF San Diego Section Open Division championship (2015)
- 2016 Under Armour Second Team All-American
- LJHS Female Student-Athlete of the Year
- PrepVolleyball No. 26 Senior Ace
- VolleyballMag.com Fab 50 pick
- First team all-league and all-CIF
- PrepVolleyball First Team All-Academic
- San Diego Union-Tribune All-Academic
- Also played basketball for two years
- Was valedictorian of her graduating class
- Played club for Coast Volleyball
- 17-Open team won the Pacific Northwest qualifier, finished third at the SoCal qualifier and was 14th at the Junior Olympics
- Named PrepVolleyball Dream Team for the Pacific Northwest and SoCal qualifiers
- 18-Open squad was third at AAUs and fifth at Junior Olympics
Personal
- Daughter of Michael Gates and Amy Randel
- Father played basketball and mother played volleyball at Brown University
- Has a younger brother, Nathaniel, who joined the Stanford men's volleyball team in 2019
- Born in Laguna Hills, Calif.
- Full name is Madeleine Randel Gates
Career Highs
Statistic | Career High | Opponent | Date |
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Kills | 22 | at Stanford | Nov. 16, 2017 |
Attempts | 45 | at Oregon State | Nov. 2, 2018 |
Hitting Percentage | .733 (11-0-15) | vs. Penn State | Dec. 14, 2019 |
Assists | 2 (2X) | last at Arizona | Nov. 9, 2019 |
Service Aces | 1 (8X) | last vs. Oregon | Nov. 3, 2019 |
Digs | 6 | at Cal Poly | Sept. 6, 2018 |
Blocks | 14 | vs. Utah | Dec. 13, 2019 |