2016 Beach Volleyball Roster
Roster
MacKenzie Kleespies
- Position:
- Player
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Avon Grove H.S.
- Hometown:
- Lincoln University, Pa.
Prior to Arizona: (Indoor career) Spent three seasons at James Madison where she played outside hitter and libero ... Averaged 4.73 digs/set in 2014 to lead the team ... Posted 443 digs in 2013, the sixth-highest single-season total in school history ... A two-time CAA weekly award winner ... Attended Avon Grove High School in Lincoln University, Pa., where she coached by her mother and Wildcat legend Melissa McLinden ... A special-mention High School All-American by PrepVolleyball.com ... Named first-team all-state in 2011 ... Holds the school record with over 1,000 career kills.
Personal: Daughter of Chris Kleespies and Melissa McLinden, two University of Arizona student athletes ... Has three sisters (Cassie, Haley and Chloee) ... Mother Melissa was Arizona's first 1st-team All-American in 1985 and her 41 kills vs. BYU (12/14/85) stand as the most in a match in school history ... Father Chris ran track at Arizona ... Majoring in general studies with a focus in art and entertainment and media ... In her free time, enjoys watching movies ... Chose to transfer to Arizona because "both my parents and my grandfather went here."
