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2021 Women's Volleyball Roster

Molly Sheppard/USD
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Dave Eggen/Inertia
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5 Tatum Pickar

  • Position
    Defensive Specialist
  • Height
    5-3
  • Class
    Senior
  • High School
    Cannon Falls H.S.
  • Hometown
    Cannon Falls, Minn.
  • Major
    Exercise Science

Biography

PRONUNCIATION

 
HONORS AND AWARDS: 
  • Three-time Summit League Defensive Player of the Week (3/9/21, 3/16/21, 10/12/21)
  • Summit League Academic Honor Roll (2019, 2020-21, 2022)
  • Summit League Commissioner's List of Academic Excellence (2020-21, 2022)
2021: Played in 26 matches and 95 total sets for the Jacks as senior... served as the libero for the majority of the season... led the team in digs (384) and digs per set (4.04)... ranked fifth in the Summit League in overall digs per set and sixth in digs per set in conference matches (4.07)... gave out 85 assists... recorded 29 ace serves, ranking third on the team... tallied 10+ digs on 22 occasions and 20+ digs four times... had a season-high 28 digs at Western Illinois (11/7)... had six aces against Western Illinois (10/7).

2020-21: Started all 17 matches and played in all 57 sets as libero for South Dakota State … paced the team and ranked second in the Summit League with 5.32 digs per set and ranked sixth in the conference with 303 digs … led SDSU with 23 service aces, ranking third in the Summit League with 0.40 aces per set … recorded 10-plus kills in 16 matches … tallied a career-best three service aces on six occasions … posted 16 digs and no receiving errors at Drake (1/24) … tallied 14 digs, four assists and three aces in the first match against Western Illinois (1/31) followed by 19 digs in the second match (2/1) … recorded a career-best 30 digs at Kansas City (2/22), which ranked third in the Summit League for digs in a five-set match … posted 26 digs, three service aces and three assists in the first match against North Dakota (3/12) and 23 digs, three aces and a season-high eight assists in the second match (3/13) … totaled 16 digs and three aces against Oral Roberts (3/19).

2019: Started all 28 matches and played in 107 sets … led the team in digs (420) and digs per set (3.93), while ranking third with 72 assists … ranked fifth in the Summit League with 3.92 digs per set and sixth with 420 digs … recorded double figure dig totals in 25 matches … posted a career-best three service assists vs. Louisiana-Monroe (9/6) … dished a career-high seven set assists vs. Lamar (9/6) … recorded 20 digs and five assists vs. UMKC (9/21) … tallied 24 digs, five assists and a service ace at Oral Roberts (10/6) … logged 23 digs, four assists and a service ace vs. Purdue Fort Wayne (10/18) … recorded career-best 25 digs, while adding four assists and two service aces vs. Oral Roberts (11/3).

Before SDSU: Spent one season at North Dakota State College of Science (2018) ... picked up NJCAA All-Region and All-Mon-Dak Conference honors as a freshman, leading the nation with 7.26 digs per set (878 total) ... helped team to Mon-Dak Conference, District G and Region XIII titles as program qualified for NJCAA National Tournament ... graduated from Cannon Falls High School (Cannon Falls, Minnesota) in May 2018 ... She graduated from Cannon Falls High School in June 2018, tallying over 2,000 digs in her career with three trips to the sectional playoffs ... two-time Minnesota First Team All-State selection in 2016 and 2017 ... had 582 digs as a senior and 659 as a junior.

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Historical Player Information

  • 5

    2019Sophomore

    Defensive Specialist / Libero
    5'3"
    5
  • 5

    2020-21Junior

    Defensive Specialist / Libero
    5'3"
    5
  • 5

    2021Senior

    Defensive Specialist
    5'3"
    5
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