Honors & Awards
• AVCA All-America First Team (2019)
• AVCA All-America Second Team (2021)
• AVCA All-America Third Team (2020)
• AVCA All-America Honorable Mention (2018)
• AVCA All-Region Team (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• All-Big Ten First Team (2019, 2020, 2021)
• All-Big Ten Second Team (2018, 2022)
• Big Ten All-Freshman Team (2018)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022)
• Big Ten Player of the Week (Sept. 9, 2019)
• Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Sept. 10, 2018)
• Ameritas Players Challenge Most Valuable Player (2022)
• Cyclone Invitational Most Valuable Player (2019)
• Penn State Invitational All-Tournament Team (2018)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2022)
2022 (Senior)
• In her lone season at Nebraska, led the nation in blocks at 1.61 per set and added 1.40 kills per set on .297 hitting
• Was an All-Big Ten Second Team member and AVCA All-Region selection for the fifth time in her career
• Was named the most valuable player of the Ameritas Players Challenge on the opening weekend after 1.78 kills per set on .375 hitting and 2.00 blocks per set
• Had eight kills and five blocks against Tulsa (Aug. 26)
• Posted five kills and seven blocks in her Husker debut against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Aug. 26)
• Put down seven kills on .545 hitting against LMU (Sept. 1)
• Had six blocks with four kills in a 3-2 win at Creighton (Sept. 7)
• Was efficient against Stanford with five kills on .364 hitting with five blocks (Sept. 13)
• Added five kills on .333 hitting with four blocks in a 3-0 win at No. 13 Kentucky (Sept. 18)
• Tallied six kills on .455 hitting in a sweep of Michigan State (Sept. 23)
• Recorded six kills on eight swings at Rutgers for a .750 hitting percentage (Sept. 30)
• Had six kills with a season-high nine blocks in a win at Maryland (Oct. 2)
• Notched six kills and six blocks at Michigan State (Oct. 6)
• Tied her season high with nine blocks in a 3-0 sweep against her former team, No. 14 Penn State (Oct. 14)
• Added nine blocks in a three-set match again in a sweep of Maryland (Oct. 29)
• Posted seven kills on .417 hitting with nine blocks in a 3-2 win at Northwestern (Nov. 6)
• Had a season-best 13 kills and hit .500 with four blocks vs. No. 3 Wisconsin (Nov. 25)
• Totaled nine kills and hit .350 with seven blocks in the NCAA second round win against Kansas (Dec. 2)
2021 (Senior at Penn State)
• Named to the AVCA All-America Second Team and was an All-Big Ten First Team choice for the third straight season
• Averaged a career-best 2.92 kills per set while hitting .394
• Recorded 1.40 blocks per set, which ranked third in the Big Ten and seventh nationally
• Notched a season-best 24 kills on Nov. 6 against Michigan State while hitting .535
• Tallied 11 blocks against Minnesota on Nov. 26
2020 (Junior at Penn State)
• Was named an AVCA third-team All-American and earned another selection to the All-Big Ten First Team
• Selected to the AVCA All-Northeast Region Team and led the team with a .421 hitting percentage while totaling 2.45 kills per set and 1.32 blocks per set
• Ranked third in the Big Ten and 14th nationally with a .421 hitting percentage
• Had a season-high 13 kills against Purdue on March 5 and Texas on April 18 in the NCAA Regional Semifinal
2019 (Sophomore at Penn State)
• Earned a spot on the AVCA All-America First Team and All-Big Ten First Team
• Started all 33 matches and led the team with a .440 hitting percentage, which ranked second in the Big Ten and third nationally
• Averaged 2.65 kills and 1.27 blocks per set
• Was named Big Ten Player of the Week on Sept. 9
• Named MVP of the Cyclone Invitational at Iowa State
• Had a season-high 17 kills on .727 hitting in a sweep over Holy Cross
• Hit over .400 with double-digit kills 14 times
2018 (Freshman at Penn State)
• Earned AVCA All-America honorable mention and was voted to the AVCA All-Northeast Region Team
• Named to the All-Big Ten Second Team and the Big Ten All-Freshman Team
• Led the team in hitting percentage (.383) and finished with 2.12 kills per set and 1.24 blocks per set
• Selected to the Penn State Invitational All-Tournament Team
• Won Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Sept. 10 after a season-high 16 kills on .556 hitting with seven blocks against Oregon
High School
• Was the No. 3 ranked 2018 PrepVolleyball.com Senior Ace
• Was a member of the 2016 U.S. Girls’ Youth National Training Team and the USA Girls’ U18 World Championship 2017 team
• Went 37-7 in her junior season and finished runner-up with Henry Clay HS in the KHSA State Tournament, being just the second public school ever to make it to the title game
• Recorded 269 kills, a .421 hitting percentage and 124 blocks in her junior year
• Finished her high school career with 468 kills, a .397 hitting percentage and 248 blocks
• Played club volleyball with Lexington United
Personal
• Parents are Lisa Higgins-Hord and Derrick Hord
• Father played basketball at Kentucky and was a third-round pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1983 NBA Draft
• Graduated from Penn State with a degree in communication arts and sciences