Kate Formico Season 2019

In the News

• 10/23/18: My Stanford Story: Kate Formico (VIDEO) - Stanford Athletics

Career Accolades

• Two-time NCAA champion (2018, 2019)
• Three-time Pac-12 champion (2017, 2018, 2019)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (2018)
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2019)

As a Junior (2019) • NCAA Champions, Pac-12 Champions

• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Played in all 34 matches, appearing in all 120 sets
• Averaged 2.14 digs per set
• Registered double-digit digs in 10 matches
• Matched her career-high with 16 digs at USC (Oct. 27)
• Career-high five aces against UCLA (Nov. 17)

As a Sophomore (2018) • NCAA Champions, Pac-12 Champions

• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
• Played in all 35 matches, appearing in 119 sets
• Averaged 1.60 digs per set
• Notched double-digit digs in three matches
• Season-high 13 digs at Oregon State (Oct. 19)
• Season-best three aces at No. 16 Oregon (Oct. 21)

As a Freshman (2017) • Pac-12 Champions

• Started 14 matches as a defensive specialist, appearing in all 119 sets
• Fourth on the team with 1.86 digs per set
• Made her collegiate debut at Long Beach State (Aug. 25), tallying eight digs
• Recorded a team-high 10 digs against Wright State (Aug. 26)
• Career-high 16 digs versus No. 5 Penn State (Sept. 1)
• Season-bests two aces at Texas A&M (Sept. 3), versus California (Sept. 20) and at Oregon State (Oct. 8)
• Recorded her first collegiate kill against No. 23 Colorado State (Dec. 2) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament

USA Volleyball

• Selected to the USA Beach A2 Program in 2016
• Finished fourth at the USA High Performance Beach Championships in 2015
• Earned her CBVA AAA Rating in 2015

Prior to Stanford

• A 2017 graduate of Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, Calif.
• A three-year letterwinner, captaining her team as a senior in 2016
• 2016 California Open Division State Champions
• Two-time California Division II State Champions (2014 and 2015)
• Archbishop Mitty Fall Female Scholar-Athlete and Team MVP (2016)
• MaxPreps First Team All-California and Third Team All-American (2016)
• PrepVolleyball All-American (2016)
• FloVolleyball Third Team All-American (2016)
• Two-time WCAL and San Jose Mercury News first team (2015 and 2016) 
• Played for Encore Volleyball Club (2016-17) and Vision Volleyball Club (2014-15)
• Qualified in the Open Division for Junior Olympics from 2014-17
• Placed fifth in 17 Open Division in 2015

Personal

• Daughter of Marte and Linda Formico
• Has an older brother, Marte, who played soccer at UC Davis, and a younger brother, Jack
• Younger cousin of four-time Olympic beach volleyball medalist and Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame member, Kerri Walsh Jennings
• Also the younger cousin of former UCLA libero and Stanford volunteer assistant coach (2017), Taylor Formico
• Full name is Katherine Judith Formico

Career Highs