Nathaniel Gates Season 2023

Career Accolades

• All-MPSF honorable mention (2023)
• Off the Block National Middle Attacker of the Week (April 10, 2023)
• Two-time MPSF Defensive Player of the Week (April 3, 2023, April 10, 2023)
• Three-time MPSF All-Academic Team (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023)

As a Senior (2023)

• All-MPSF honorable mention
• Off the Block National Middle Attacker of the Week (April 10)
• Two-time MPSF Defensive Player of the Week (April 3, April 10)
• MPSF All-Academic Team
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Started 27 matches at middle blocker
  • Averaged 1.31 kills on .453 hitting and 0.87 blocks per set
• Ranked sixth in the MPSF in blocks per set
• Season-best seven blocks in a win against No. 10 UC Santa Barbara (Jan. 13)
• Career-high 13 kills on .667 hitting in a win over No. 6 Grand Canyon (April 8)

As a Junior (2022)

• MPSF All-Academic Team
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Started all 28 matches at middle blocker
  • Averaged 1.33 kills on .446 hitting, and 0.74 blocks per set
• Career-best eight blocks against Lindenwood (Jan. 6)
• Season-high 11 kills versus No. 12 UC Irvine (Jan. 8)
• Hit a career-best .889 (8-0-9) in a sweep over BYU (April 8)
• Career-high six digs in a five-set win against BYU (April 9)

As a Sophomore (2021)

• MPSF All-Academic Team
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Started 11 matches at middle blocker, appeared in 41 sets
  • Averaged 1.07 kills and 0.63 blocks per set
• Season-high seven kills hitting a season-best .583 (7-0-12) versus No. 7 Grand Canyon (March 19)
• Season-best six blocks versus Concordia (April 2)

As a Freshman (2020)

• Appeared in seven sets, averaged 1.00 blocks per set
• Made his collegiate debut versus UC Santa Cruz (Jan. 4)
• Season-high three digs versus No. 5 Lewis (March 7)

USA Volleyball

• Trained with the U.S. Collegiate National Team in Anaheim (2023)
• 2019 USA Youth National Training Team
• Member of the 2018 U.S. Youth National Team, finishing second at the NORCECA Championships in Costa Rica

Prior to Stanford

• A 2019 graduate of La Jolla High School in La Jolla, Calif.
• A four-year letterwinner, captained his team as a senior
• 2017 CIF Champions Open Division (San Diego County)
• 2018 CIF Runners-Up Open Division (San Diego County)
• AVCA All-America first team (2019)
• VolleyballMag.com Fab 50
• Two-time All-CIF first team (2017, 2018)
• All-CIF second team (2019)
• Two-time Western League first team (2017, 2019)
• Western League second team (2018)
• Played for Coast Volleyball Club
  • Placed fifth nationally in 2018

Personal

• Son of Michael Gates and Amy Randel
  • Father played basketball at Brown
  • Mother played volleyball and Brown and was a two-time All-Ivy selection
• Has an older sister, Madeleine, who won a national championship in 2019 with the Stanford women's volleyball team after spending three seasons playing at UCLA
• Born in Winston-Salem, N.C.
• Full name is Nathaniel Patrick Gates

Career Highs