2014 Accomplishments: Kenzie accepts Assistant College Volleyball Coach at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC.
Kenzie has written a Kindle book - 101+ Volleyball Tips: How to Get Recruited for College Volleyball
2014 Accomplishments: Kenzie earns her MBA from the University of Redlands.
2014 Accomplishments: Kenzie completes her MBA Consultancy in the United Kingdom.
2012 (College
Volleyball Graduate School Year): Kenzie has accepted a position as Assistant Volleyball Coach at the University of Redlands where she will earn her MBA.
2011 (College Volleyball Senior Year) Accomplishments: At the end of her senior year, Kenzie holds the following Pomona-Pitzer Women's College Volleyball records: CAREER LEADERS - DIGS:
#8 Kenzie Aries 1045 (08-11)
CAREER LEADERS - ASSISTS:
#2 Kenzie Aries 2760 (08-11)
2011 (College
Volleyball Senior Year) Accomplishments: At the beginning of her senior year, Kenzie is fifth all time in total assists (2316) for Pomona-Pitzer. She is seventh all time in block assists (128).
2009 (College
Volleyball Sophomore Year) Awards & Stats: Kenzie
earned Honorable Mention out of 31 teams for the
AVCA Division III Regional
Volleyball All Star Awards.
Volleyball stats highlights: Season Totals:
965 assists, 36 service aces, 298 digs, 49 blocks.
Match Highs: 62 assists vs Oxy (9/19), 8 kills vs
CMS (10/9) and Chapman (9/25), 20 digs vs Oxy
(10/20), 6 blocks vs Dominican (9/11). Led team with
16 double-doubles.
Online videos include information on float
serving and jump serving a volleyball, plus information on
setting.
While my volleyball site
helped me get recruited for college volleyball, some
opposing fans have found my volleyball resume info
useful as well.
When I watched game film, I
heard these Redlands University boys rhythmically
chanting, "Go, Kenzilla. Go."
Hmm, go figure... but thanks
guys!
When they are not practicing the complicated intricacies of
stand-up cheering (and politely jeering me) they are extra's for the
next release of the movie "300"
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These fans of the Cal Lu volleyball team were reciting snippets
from this volleyball web site, loudly... while I was serving.
:)
When not memorizing millions of obscure pages from the net,
these protective headwear fans are future members of the US
National Water Polo Team.
Kenzie Aries
Awards & Honors Overview:
Summer 2009 -
SCVA High Performance Red Team. Click for information
on the SCVA
Volleyball High Performance team.
2008 (College
Volleyball Freshman Year) Stats: Season Totals: 349
Assists, 121 kills, 262 digs, 9 blocks. Match Highs: .545
(12-0-22) hitting percentage vs Bridgewater College (9/20/08),
12 kills vs Bridgewater College (9/20/08), 26 Assists vs Chapman
(10/14/08), 31 digs vs Chapman (10/14/08), 5 blocks vs
Willamette (9/13/08). Led team with one triple double and 12
double-doubles.
2007 (Senior
Year) -
Named 2007 first team All-CIF San Diego County by three
different groups - The San Diego Union Tribune, a local TV
station and by San Diego CIF volleyball coaches.Three
year starting 6' varsity setter. Kenzie was named top a
Top 25
volleyball player to watch in San Diego County by two
regional newspapers. Kenzie was one of twelve players named
to 2007 Southern California Volleyball Association
(SCVA)
High Performance volleyball team which earned a Bronze
Medal at the national championships and she received a spot on the
USA Volleyball High
Performance Development A1 Camp. Selected as solo
team
captain for high school.
First
team All-Tournament setter in a pool of 32 teams.
Athlete of the week North County Times. Earned
first
team all-league Coastal League for second year in a row.
Finished 2nd in MVP voting for Coastal League. Named
first team all CIF
DIII for second year in a row. Earned team
MVP award. San Diego's "Night Lights TV" names Kenzie
Aries as a first team
all-star member of San Diego County's girls high
school volleyball team for 2007. Named
first team all CIF
San Diego County by San Diego Union. Named
to
San Diego County All-Star game by San Diego CIF coaches.
Finished first in the California Beach Volleyball Association (CBVA)
18's division (last year in two tournaments finished third
twice).
Get to know me in less than 4 minutes.
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After 50+ letters and contacts from college coaches, I have
selected my college for
volleyball next year.
Overall Grade Point: 4.07
(updated transcripts) including heavy load of Honors and AP courses, including: Physics, World History, English and Studio Art.
My high school, San
Dieguito Academy, is ranked 128th in the country
by Newsweek Magazine, out of the top 1,200 high schools.
Senior Year:
Three year starting
17 year-old 6' varsity setter in 5-1 and 6-2 offense. I play
outside hitter and opposite during my front row
rotation.
Tournament
performance: Even though starting team has one
freshman, two sophomores, two juniors and only one senior,
we have made the gold division in each of three tournaments
this year.
One of just six
players to earn Gold-Division First Team All-Tournament
setter in the Granite Hills Southern California Volleyball
Tournament, which had 32 teams.
I was named Athlete of the Week by North County Times.
Played every meaningful minute of every game. Earned first
team all-league Coastal League for second year in a row.
Many "experts"
predicted our young team to win as few as 10 games all year.
We won 20 games, made gold division in all three of our
tournaments and advanced to the semifinals of the CIF DIII
playoffs.
Earned team MVP
award. I have earned an award all three years of varsity play
and my freshman year I was MVP of our JV team.
Won CBVA beach
volleyball tournament - 18's division.
2007 Volleyball
Club Season: Kenzie Aries was one of twelve players named
to 2007 Southern California Volleyball Association (SCVA) High Performance volleyball team. She will travel
with the USA High Performance Volleyball Tournament to Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida during the week of July 21-26. Additionally,
Kenzie earned a spot on the USA Volleyball High Performance Development A1 Camp,
which she will attend.
Kenzie now has her own
weekly column in the Student
Sports Volleyball section of
Rivals.com. Rivals.com reaches more than 2.5
million readers, and has more than 180,000 active
subscribers Rivals.com syndicates a variety of its
content to major media outlets including Yahoo!, AOL
Sports, SI.com, MSNBC.com, USA Today and Sirius
Satellite Radio.
Junior Year: Starting
16 year-old 6' varsity setter
(my high school lists me as 6', my club as 5'11') in 5-1 offense, playing every meaningful minute of every game. Achieved
first team All-CIF Division III for San Diego County*. First team all-league for my conference. Earned Coach's Award at our team banquet. All San Diego County Academic Girls Volleyball honors. First team all tournament in a pool of 44 teams. Athlete of the week North County Times.
My high school volleyball team finished ranked 9th in
California. Of course, these personal honors are only
available due to having great teammates and coaches at
San Dieguito Academy
and at
San
Diego Volleyball Club. I currently work out every day with boys varsity
team, in addition to club practices and beach tournaments. I
have uploaded
two
complete games from my high school volleyball season.
June 2007: My team, San
Diego Volleyball Club 17-1, did great at the Volleyball Festival
in Reno. Out of 86 teams, we finished 13-2 and came in 7th.
July 2007: Additionally our SCVA High Performance team captured
a Bronze Medal at the USA Volleyball High Performance
Championships in Florida.
Sophomore Year: Starting varsity setter in 5-1 offense, playing every meaningful minute of every game.
In one tournament, due to injuries, I not only played
setter, but middle blocker as well, setting out of the
middle blocker position. Second team all-league for my conference. Earned Coach's Award at our team banquet. Worked out every day with boys varsity in Spring.
In track, I became the all-time record holder for shot put
at my 70 year old high school. I broke the record in my
fourth meet at 15 years old. I was all-league in track and
went to the San Diego County CIF championships where I was
the youngest person to medal in my event.
Freshman Year: Youngest player on the team. Starting junior varsity setter in 6-2 offense, playing every meaningful minute of every game. Earned Most Valuable Player at our team banquet. Only player called up to varsity at years end. Worked out every day with boys varsity in Spring.
*San Diego County has over 2.9 million people, making my county larger than 22 states. My making all Division III is equivalent to making all-state in Nebraska, Rhode Island, Utah, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming, District of Columbia, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana or Hawaii.
What coaches are saying.
A few quick bits about the way I play:
I am an exceptionally strong 6' setter with a both a powerful and clean touch. I can set a clean ball from antenna-to-antenna, with just my wrists.
I am a multi-tool player. I've played every position on the court, including Middle Blocker and Setter (debatably the two hardest positions on the court) at the same time for an entire tournament in my sophomore year.
I can overhead pass on serve-receive. In fact, I prefer overhead service receive.
I am
a good blocker. Even though I am the setter, against teams with
a dominating outside hitter, my high school coach backed up the
rotation so I could block that hitter.
I dig the hard spike.
I serve a hard floater consistently for aces.
I flat-out hustle all the time. I live by the quote, "Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."
I lead on the court. Every play will get a verbal response from me. A setter needs to be loud.
I can hit with power that causes the recipient to flinch.
I love to block and I am capable of shutting down big outside hitters. In our first tournament of 28 high school teams, I had 14 blocks in four games.
In our second tournament, I was named to the all-tournament team from a pool of 44 teams, including nationally ranked teams.
I run a multi-faceted offense.
Opposing coaches know my name. Ask them. They'll tell you.
As a
sophomore I played in a weekend tournament and one of our
middles was hurt in the first match. I played setter in a 5-1
offense AND I played middle blocker when I was in the front row.
Joined
California Beach Volleyball Association last year and played in just
two
tournaments, where I finished third twice.
My club coach asked us for our workout
schedule. From March 1 to June 1 2007, I did at least two
hours of volleyball 90% of the time. I guess I am a bit of a
volleyball
junkie I love to go hiking.
"Kenzie is the hardest working player I have
ever coached. "
Lara Ramey, former USC player and current club co-director
"Kenz is starting to
develop the ability to make the players around her better by
directing them. She started to take control of her team in a
positive manner. She has talents that will help her at the next
level."
Pat Powers, Olympic Gold Medalist & Former USC head coach
"Out of all the girls I have coached Kenzie is
by far the best when you combine strength with coordination and
speed."
Stu Waite, Beach Volleyball Coach
"Incredible work ethic, powerful, coachable,
perfectionist, leader, dominating player, works hard at every
aspect of the game."
Diane Pascua AVP player, member of Philippines Olympic team
"...she possesses all the fundamentals that
are required to be a top notch sand player."
Petia Yanchulova, Olympic Beach Volleyball Player
"...very physically powerful player who is at
the same time agile and quick."
Stu Waite, Beach Volleyball Coach
"Kenzie's talents and passion will easily take
her to the next level of the game beyond high school."
Julie Kaiser, Former Club Director, high school volleyball
coach.
"Kenzie gets to every ball."
Dexter Harvey, high school volleyball coach.