Madeleine Gates Season 2019

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