Alex Itasaka

22 - Alex Itasaka

Height:

5-0

Year:

Sophomore

Hometown:

Bradford, Mass.

High School:

Haverhill

Position:

Libero/Defensive Specialist

Major:

Physical Therapy

m 27

k/s 0.07

h % -.046

a/s 0.31

b/s 0.01

sa/s 0.26

d/s 4.04

2014 Season: Tabbed to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference All-Academic Team ... Named a Captain ... One of two players to see action in all 99 sets over 27 matches ... Ranked fourth in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference with 4.04 digs per set ... Placed second on the team with 25 aces ... Posted a .913 serve reception percentage ... Recorded double-digit digs in all but three recordable matches and scooped up 20 or more on six occasions ... Got down for a season-high 32 digs vs. Saint Joseph's College (Maine) on October 18 ... Fired at least one ace in six consecutive matches from September 13-27 ... Served up a season-high four aces in addition to 18 digs at University of Saint Joseph (Conn.) on September 13 ... Picked up 64 digs in a three-match span from September 13-20.

2013 Season: Named to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Third Team ... One of two first years on the squad to play in all 124 sets in 36 matches ... Led the Sharks with 445 digs and ranked ninth among GNAC leaders with 3.59 digs per set ... Served up 27 aces ... Began her collegiate career with four straight matches of double-digit digs and finished the season with double digits in 23 contests, including the final seven to close out the year ... Registered back-to-back career-best 25-dig efforts in the GNAC Championship Tournament at Saint Joseph's College in the quarterfinals on November 5 and at Rivier University on November 7 ... Put together a string of five straight outings with at least one ace from September 17-24 with a total of 10 during the stretch ... Fired a career-high five aces and added 17 digs vs. Suffolk University on September 21 ... Made her collegiate debut on August 31 at Wheaton College.

High School/Personal: Four-year letterwinner in volleyball for Haverhill High School ... Led the Hilltoppers in serving percentage for two years ... Named to the Massachusetts Girls Volleyball Coaches Association Division 1 All-State team as a senior for HHS ... Tabbed to the Boston Globe All-Scholastic team following her junior and senior campaigns and was also chosen as an Eagle Tribune All-Star for Haverhill High ... Selected to the Merrimack Valley All-Star and All-Conference squads for Haverhill High School ... Named the Hilltoppers' Most Valuable Player in her final three years of volleyball ... Tapped a Captain for the HHS volleyball squad for her senior year ... Earned Advanced Placement Scholar honors at Haverhill High ... Member of Amnesty International and National Honor Society at HHS ... Relay For Life team Captain at Haverhill High ... Born October 4, 1994 ... Majoring in Physical Therapy with a minor in Psychology at Simmons ... Daughter of Diane and Tadashi Itasaka ... Member of Students United for Justice at Simmons ... Named to the Dean's List both semesters in her first year at Simmons.

Recent Games
Oct 23	at Emmanuel (Mass.)	W, 3-1
Oct 25	at Suffolk	W, 3-0
Oct 25	vs. Mount Ida	W, 3-0
Oct 30	at WPI	L, 3-0
Nov 4	Norwich	W, 3-1
Nov 6	at Rivier	L, 3-1

Statistics category	Overall	Conf
Matches	27	11
Sets	99	43
Kills	7	3
Kills per set	0.07	0.07
Errors	10	3
Total Attacks	65	27
Hitting Percentage	-.046	.000
Assists	31	15
Assists per set	0.31	0.35
Service Aces	26	13
Service Errors	19	8
Service Aces per set	0.26	0.30
Receptions	449	174
Reception Errors	49	10
Digs	400	157
Digs per set	4.04	3.65
Block Solo	1	1
Block Assist	0	0
Block Total	1	1
Blocks per set	0.01	0.02
Block Errors	0	0
Ball Handling Errors	2	0
Points	34.0	17.0
Points per set	0.3	0.4
Matches started	1	-

Date	Opponent	Score	ms	s	k	e	ta	pct	a	sa	se	r	re	digs	bs	tot	bhe	pts
Aug 29	at Clarkson	L, 3-0	-	3	0	2	2	-1.000	0	0	3	0	2	15	0	0	0	0.0
Aug 30	vs. Calvin	L, 3-0	-	3	0	1	1	-1.000	0	0	1	0	3	13	0	0	0	0.0
Aug 30	vs. New Paltz St.	L, 3-0	-	3	0	0	0	-	1	0	0	0	3	12	0	0	0	0.0
Sep 2	Smith	L, 3-1	-	4	0	0	0	-	1	1	2	33	2	21	0	0	0	1.0
Sep 9	Babson	L, 3-0	-	3	0	0	3	.000	0	0	0	-	1	8	0	0	0	0.0
Sep 13	at St. Joseph (Conn.)	L, 3-2	-	5	0	1	4	-.250	2	4	1	4	4	18	0	0	0	4.0
Sep 17	Endicott	L, 3-1	-	4	0	0	3	.000	3	3	1	21	1	26	0	0	0	3.0
Sep 20	Regis (Mass.)	L, 3-0	-	3	2	0	3	.667	5	3	1	26	1	20	0	0	0	5.0
Sep 20	Framingham St.	L, 3-0	-	3	0	0	3	.000	1	1	1	28	4	14	0	0	0	1.0
Sep 23	at Brandeis	L, 3-2	-	5	1	1	2	.000	1	1	2	43	8	24	0	0	1	2.0
Sep 27	vs. Anna Maria	W, 3-1	-	4	0	0	1	.000	1	1	0	28	1	15	0	0	0	1.0
Sep 27	at Johnson & Wales (RI)	W, 3-2	-	5	1	0	3	.333	1	0	2	36	0	12	0	0	0	1.0
Sep 30	at Lasell	W, 3-1	-	4	0	0	0	-	3	2	2	-	1	14	0	0	0	2.0
Oct 4	at MIT	L, 3-0	-	3	0	0	0	-	1	0	0	10	0	14	0	0	0	0.0
Oct 4	vs. Tufts	L, 3-0	-	3	0	0	2	.000	1	0	0	22	2	13	0	0	1	0.0
Oct 7	at Rivier	L, 3-1	-	4	0	1	3	-.333	1	3	0	28	0	15	0	0	0	3.0
Oct 11	vs. York (NY)	W, 3-0	1	3	0	0	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0
Oct 11	at Albertus Magnus	W, 3-0	-	3	0	0	0	-	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0
Oct 16	Emerson	W, 3-2	-	5	0	2	4	-.500	2	1	0	31	1	17	0	0	0	1.0
Oct 18	Norwich	W, 3-0	-	3	2	0	4	.500	4	0	1	-	0	7	0	0	0	2.0
Oct 18	Saint Joseph's College of Maine	W, 3-2	-	5	0	1	3	-.333	2	1	1	46	1	32	0	0	0	1.0
Oct 23	at Emmanuel (Mass.)	W, 3-1	-	4	0	0	2	.000	1	0	0	32	1	19	0	0	0	0.0
Oct 25	at Suffolk	W, 3-0	-	3	0	0	4	.000	0	0	0	0	1	11	1	1	0	1.0
Oct 25	vs. Mount Ida	W, 3-0	-	3	0	0	3	.000	0	1	1	0	1	14	0	0	0	1.0
Oct 30	at WPI	L, 3-0	-	3	0	0	4	.000	0	0	0	-	2	8	0	0	0	0.0
Nov 4	Norwich	W, 3-1	-	4	0	1	6	-.167	0	2	0	27	2	18	0	0	0	2.0
Nov 6	at Rivier	L, 3-1	-	4	1	0	5	.200	0	1	0	34	7	20	0	0	0	2.0

	m	s	k	k/s	e	ta	pct	a	a/s	sa	sa/s	r	re	digs	d/s	bs	tot	b/s	pts	pts/s
2013-14	36	124	7	0.06	20	102	-.127	32	0.26	27	0.22	709	68	445	3.59	0	0	0.00	34.0	0.3
2014-15	27	99	7	0.07	10	65	-.046	31	0.31	26	0.26	449	49	400	4.04	1	1	0.01	34.0	0.3
2015-16	27	99	0	0.00	2	8	-.250	12	0.12	0	0.00	343	28	176	1.78	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
2016-17	24	86	2	0.02	6	29	-.138	21	0.24	38	0.44	507	46	446	5.19	0	0	0.00	40.0	0.5
Total	114	408	16	0.04	38	204	-.108	96	0.24	91	0.22	2008	191	1467	3.60	1	1	0.00	108.0	0.3

	m	s	k	k/s	e	ta	pct	a	a/s	sa	sa/s	r	re	digs	d/s	bs	ba	tot	b/s	pts	pts/s
Total	27	99	7	0.07	10	65	-.046	31	0.31	26	0.26	449	49	400	4.04	1	0	1	0.01	34.0	0.3
Conference	11	43	3	0.07	3	27	.000	15	0.35	13	0.30	174	10	157	3.65	1	0	1	0.02	17.0	0.4
Exhibition	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Home	9	34	4	0.12	4	29	.000	18	0.53	12	0.35	212	13	163	4.79	0	0	0	0.00	16.0	0.5
Away	12	46	3	0.07	5	29	-.069	10	0.22	12	0.26	187	26	170	3.70	1	0	1	0.02	16.0	0.3
Neutral	6	19	0	0.00	1	7	-.143	3	0.16	2	0.11	50	10	67	3.53	0	0	0	0.00	2.0	0.1
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Wins	12	46	3	0.07	4	30	-.033	14	0.30	9	0.20	200	9	159	3.46	1	0	1	0.02	13.0	0.3
Losses	15	53	4	0.08	6	35	-.057	17	0.32	17	0.32	249	40	241	4.55	0	0	0	0.00	21.0	0.4
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August	3	9	0	0.00	3	3	-1.000	1	0.11	0	0.00	0	8	40	4.44	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
September	10	40	4	0.10	2	22	.091	18	0.45	16	0.40	219	23	172	4.30	0	0	0	0.00	20.0	0.5
October	12	42	2	0.05	4	29	-.069	12	0.29	7	0.17	169	9	150	3.57	1	0	1	0.02	10.0	0.2
November	2	8	1	0.13	1	11	.000	0	0.00	3	0.38	61	9	38	4.75	0	0	0	0.00	4.0	0.5

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