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2023 Men's Volleyball Roster

10 Jakob Thelle

10 Jakob Thelle

  • Position:
    Setter
  • Height:
    6-6
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Tonsberg, Norway

Summary

Biography

2023 (Senior):
  • AVCA Player of the Year
  • Named AVCA All-America first team for the second consecutive year
  • Selected College Sports Communicators First Team All-America and All-District for the second straight year
  • NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team
  • Big West Player of the Year for the second consecutive year
  • Repeated as Big West Tournament Most Outstanding Player
  • Recipient of Off the Block’s Lloy Ball Award (nation’s best setter) and Nicolas Szerszen Award (nation’s best non-U.S. born player)
  • Named to the Outrigger Invitational all-tournament team
  • Started all 25 matches played at setter and missed seven matches due to injury
  • Ranked first nationally in assists average (10.67 a/s) while directing the nation’s second-ranked offense at .367
  • Set the program’s all-time career ace record with 122, breaking the previous mark of 121 held by Costas Theocharidis and Pedro Azenha
  • Recorded 47 assists, five blocks and two kills in the Big West Championship match against UC Irvine (April 22)
  • Posted a double-double with 26 assists and and a career-high 12 digs against UC Santa Barbara in the Big West semifinals (April 21)
  • Named to the Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll

2022 (Junior):
  • CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team & All-District 8
  • NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team
  • AVCA All-America First Team
  • Big West Player of the Year
  • Big West Tournament Most Outstanding Player
  • Finalist for Off the Block’s Lloy Ball Award (nation’s best setter), Nicolas Szerszen Award (nation’s best non-U.S. born player), and National Server of the Year
  • Started all 30 matches played at setter and missed two matches due to COVID
  • Ranked 11th nationally in assists average (10.00 a/s) while directing the nation’s fifth-ranked offense at .340
  • Led team to .400 or better hitting percentage in 10 matches, including .434 in the national title match against Long Beach State
  • Named the Most Valuable Player of the Big West Tournament, where he averaged 12.67 assists and 3.33 digs per set, leading UH to the tournament title
  • Set the program’s all-time single-season ace record with 61, breaking the previous mark of 54 held by Mark Presho (1993) and Clay Stanley (2000).
  • Also broke the rally-scoring single-season record of 53 held by Pedro Azenha in 2004
  • Earned AVCA and Big West Player of the Week after season-opening series sweep of Loyola-Chicago
  • Posted two double-doubles
  • Named academic all-Big West
 
2021 (Sophomore):
  • AVCA All-America honorable mention
  • All-Big West Conference honorable mention
  • NCAA Championship all-tournament team
  • Ranked No. 5 nationally in assists per set (10.69)
  • Directed the UH offense to No. 1 ranking in kills per set (13.72), hitting percentage (.360), and assists per set (12.57)
  • Finished third on the team with 19 aces, including seven in the NCAA Tournament with four in the title match against BYU (May 8) and three in the semifinals versus UC Santa Barbara (May 6)
  • Recorded 12 of his 19 aces in the final five matches of the season
  • Also averaged 0.60 kills, 1.48 digs, and 0.43 blocks per set with a .403 attack percentage
  • Started all 18 matches
  • Directed UH offense to .400 or better five times
  • Posted first career double-double with 42 assists and career-high 12 digs against UC Santa Diego (March 26)
  • Also recorded a double-double against UCSD (April 23) in the Big West Tournament with 53 assists and 10 digs
  • Career-high 59 assists in five-set win over Long Beach State (April 3)
  • Had seven kills in nine attempts against UCSD (March 27)
  • Named academic all-Big West
 
2020:
  • Started the team’s first seven matches and made eight starts overall
  • Appeared in 15 matches and 36 sets
  • Averaged 6.50 assists per set
  • As the starter, directed the team to .400 or better in four matches
  • Recorded 21 kills, hitting .474 with season-high five kills each against Charleston (Jan. 4) and BYU (March 6)
  • Came off the bench and tallied career-high 39 assists with two aces, two digs and two blocks in come-from-behind vs. BYU (March 6)
  • Posted 32 assists and three blocks against Grand Canyon (Jan. 11) in the Rainbow Warrior Classic and was named to tourney’s all-tournament team
  • Earned UH Scholar-Athlete Award
 
2019 (Freshman):
  • Appeared in all 31 matches and 92 sets mainly as a serving specialist
  • Finished with nine aces on the year
  • Season totals of 61 assists and 21 digs
  • Season-highs of 22 assists, five digs, one ace, and one block against Queens (Feb. 9)
  • Also saw action at setter in the first Queens match (Feb. 7) with 13 assists and three digs and in the rematch versus Lincoln Memorial (Feb. 17) with 13 assists and two digs
  • Served two aces against CSUN (March 15)
 
National Team:
  • Member of the Norway national team
  • Participated with the Senior National Team in 2017-18, which competed in the European Championship qualifier in ’18
  • Also played on the U17, U18, U19 and U20 teams
 
Prep:
  • A 2018 graduate of ToppVolley Norway in Sand, Norway
  • Competed in volleyball for three years
  • Named Talent of the Year and first division in 2018
 
Personal:
  • Born in Tonsberg, Norway
  • Has two sisters
  • Parents are Henrik Solgaard Anderson and Maria Thelle of Tolvsrod, Norway
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Historical Player Information

  • 10

    2019Freshman

    Setter
    6'6"
    10
  • 10

    2020Sophomore

    Setter
    6'6"
    10
  • 10

    2021Sophomore

    Setter
    6'6"
    10
  • 10

    2022Junior

    Setter
    6'6"
    10
  • 10

    2023Senior

    Setter
    6'6"
    10