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Career Accolades

  • Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
  • AVCA Collegiate Beach Second Team All-American (2022)
  • 2022 AVCA Collegiate Beach Top Flight Award (with partner Maddi Kriz)
  • Pac-12 Pair of the Week (with partner Maddi Kriz)- March 29, 2022
  • Four-time All-Pac-12 Second Team (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
  • Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (2019)
  • Finished career with 82 individual wins, the most in program history (as of 2023 season)

As a Fifth Year (2023)

  • ??Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • All-Pac-12 Second Team honoree
  • Finished with a 23-17 record, earning 23 wins for the second consecutive season
  • Played on courts 1 and 2 with partners Maya Harvey and Kate Reilly
  • Individually, went 9-9 on court 1 and 14-8 on court 2
  • Earned 8 wins over ranked opponents (as of playing) including top-10 opponents LSU, Grand Canyon, California

As a Senior (2022)

  • AVCA Collegiate Beach Second Team All-American
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • All-Pac-12 Second Team
  • AVCA Collegiate Beach Top Flight Award (with partner Maddi Kriz)
  • Pac-12 Pair of the Week (with partner Maddi Kriz)- March 29, 2022
  • Ended her senior season with 59 individual wins, the third-most in program history (as of completion of 2022 season)
  • Finished with a 23-12 record
  • Went 17-7 at the No. 1 (2-2) and No. 2 (15-5) spot with partner Maddi Kriz
  • Earned wins over ranked opponents (as of playing)  No. 2 UCLA, No. 2 TCU, No. 7 GCU, No. 10 Hawaii, No. 11/12 California, T-No. 11/16 Cal Poly, No. 16 Long Beach State and No. 16 Pepperdine

As a Junior (2021)

  • All-Pac-12 Second Team
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Finished with an 18-16 record
  • Went 12-8 at the No. 1 spot with partner Sunny Villapando
  • Finished the season playing with Kate Reilly, earning three wins as a pair

As a Sophomore (2020)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll 
  • Finished 7-6 overall, playing with Sunny Villapando as the team's regular No. 1 duo
  • Tied for first on the team in wins

As a Freshman (2019)

  • All-Pac-12 Second Team
  • Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
  • Finished 11-15 overall, playing with two different partners
  • Joined Kathryn Plummer (2017) as the only Cardinal players named to both All-Pac-12 teams in the same season
  • Went 10-9 with Tori Ashkinos, including a 6-9 record as the team's regular No. 1 duo

Prior to Stanford

  • Named the 2018 AAU National Player of the Year
  • Named an AVCA High School First Team All-American in 2018
  • Was captain of her volleyball team both junior and senior seasons at Point Loma High School
  • Selected two-time All-League and one-time All-CIF
  • Selected CIF All-Academic Team both junior and senior seasons
  • Team won the CIF Division 3 State Championship in 2017
  • Voted as her team's MVP in 2017
  • Awarded as Point Loma High School's Female Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2017-18

Personal

  • Parents are Merrilee and Tim Ekstrom
  • Has one younger brother, Duke
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