Inky Ajanaku Season 2016

As a Redshirt Senior (2016) • National Champions

• Honda Award Winner
• VolleyballMag.com National Player of the Year
• AVCA All-America First Team
• VolleyballMag.com All-America First Team
• NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team & Most Outstanding Player
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• Senior CLASS Award First Team All-American
• NCAA Madison Regional MVP
• FloVolleyball and Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (Oct. 31)
• Led the Pac-12 with 1.54 blocks per set and was second with a .407 hitting percentage
• Became just the fourth player in school history to reach the 600 blocks plateau, finishing with 627 (third)
• Hit .429 with 11 kills and eight blocks in the season opener against San Diego (Aug. 26)
• Hit .407 with 13 kills, including five in the fifth set, in a win over No. 17 Illinois (Sept. 3)
• Had 16 kills on a .517 attack percentage to go with nine blocks against No. 20 Purdue (Sept. 9)
• Registered her first career double-double with 14 kills and 10 blocks versus Cal Poly (Sept. 11)
• Recorded her first two collegiate aces against No. 19 Colorado (Oct. 7)
• Hit a season-best .786 with 11 kills on 14 errorless swings in a sweep over No. 7 Washington (Oct. 26)
• Led the team with 17 kills on .538 hitting with four blocks in a win over No. 16 Florida State (Dec. 9)
• Season-high 20 kills and a career-best 11 blocks at No. 3 Wisconsin (Dec. 10)
• Finished with 16 kills and eight blocks in the NCAA finals win over No. 5 Texas (Dec. 17)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Senior (2015)

• Missed the season due to a knee injury sustained playing with the U.S. National Team over the summer
• Redshirted her fourth season on The Farm

As a Junior (2014) 

• Volleyball Magazine National Player of the Year
• AVCA All-America first team
• Volleyball Magazine All-America first team
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• Honda Volleyball Sports Award finalist
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• Preseason All-Pac-12 Conference
• AVCA National Player of the Week (Sept. 9)
• Two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 1 & Sept. 8)
• Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (Oct. 27)
• Ames Regional Most Outstanding Player
• Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge MVP
• USD Invitational All-Tournament Team
• Seventh in the nation with a .428 hitting percentage
• Second in the Pac-12 with a .428 hitting percentage, sixth in blocks (1.14), eighth in points (4.13) and 10th in kills (3.48)
• Registered a career high 21 kills on 33 attempts to hit .576 in a win over No. 20 Duke (Sept. 12)
• Turned in a season-best .667 hitting percentage (11-1-15) against CSUN (Sept. 20)
• Totaled 16 kills on a .481 hitting percentage and five blocks in a five-set win at Colorado (Oct. 17)
• Led the team with 15 kills and tallied a season-high nine blocks in a win over No. 17 UCLA (Oct. 24)
• Tallied a team high 20 kills on a .457 hitting percentage and six blocks in a win over No. 20 Arizona State (Nov. 5)
• Totaled 13 kills on .458 hitting and four blocks against Michigan State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament (Dec. 6)
• Led the team with 16 kills and three blocks in the Ames Regional semifinal win over Oregon State (Dec. 12)
• Recorded her 1,000th career kill in the Ames Regional final sweep over No. 5 Florida (Dec. 13)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Sophomore (2013) 

• AVCA All-America first team
• Volleyball Magazine All-America third team
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• AVCA National Player of the Week (Dec. 3)
• Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (Dec. 2)
• Second in the Pac-12 with a .438 hitting percentage (9th nationally) and third with 1.38 blocks per set (21st nationally)
• One of five Cardinal players to average at least 2.72 kills per set
• Hit .539 (8-1-13) to go with a season-high nine blocks in a sweep over No. 16 Arizona State (Sept. 27)
• Hit .615 with nine kills and tallied three blocks, including the 200th of her career, against Colorado (Oct. 12)
• Hit a career-high .800 (8-0-10) with two blocks against Oregon State (Oct. 25)
• Led the team with a season-best 15 kills and seven blocks at Arizona (Nov. 27)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Freshman (2012) 

• AVCA All-America honorable mention
• AVCA All-Pacific Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• All-Pac-12 Freshman Team
• Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (Oct. 15 & Oct. 29)
• Berkeley Regional All-Tournament Team
• Played in 116 sets, making 24 starts at middle blocker
• Averaged 2.42 kills and 1.23 blocks per set
• Third in the Pac-12 and 28th nationally with a .374 hitting percentage
• Made her collegiate debut in the season opener versus Saint Mary's (Aug. 24), totaling seven kills and two blocks
• Eight kills and a career-best 10 blocks versus then-No. 2 Oregon (Oct. 5)

High School

• A 2012 graduate of Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, Okla.
• A three-year letterwinner and captain of her team as a senior
• Lettered twice in track and once in basketball
• Team was a four-time Oklahoma state champion and the 2012 academic state champion
• No. 2 ranked recruit by PrepVolleyball.com
• 2011 AVCA Under Armour First Team All-American and Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Year
• Named Under Armour Most Undeniable Player for Team West
• 2010 and 2011 Class 6A state tournament MVP and All-Metro Volleyball Player of the Year
• An all-state pick, holds her high school's career record for attack percentage (.634)

Club Competition

• Played for Club ONE Volleyball

National Team Experience

• Competed for the A2 U.S. Women's Junior National Team in 2011

Personal

• Daughter of Kunle Ajanaku and Tola Elliott
• Has an older brother, Kunle, and an older sister, Kitan, who played volleyball at Long Beach State and Georgia State
• Earned her degree in human biology, and a master's in biology
• Contemplating a career as an orthopedic surgeon
• Hobbies include cooking, biking and swimming
• Full name is Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku

Career Highs