2023 Women's Volleyball Roster
Jersey Number 9
Kira Fallert
- Position:
- Outside Hitter
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Concordia Academy
- Hometown:
- Maplewood, Minn.
Bio
2024: MVC Co-Player of the Year ... First Team All-MVC ... MVC All-Tournament Team ... MVC Elite 18 Award ... MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team ... AVCA All-America Honorable Mention ... AVCA All-Region Honorable Mention ... CSC Second Team Academic All-American ... CSC Academic All-District. ... MVC Dr. Charlotte West Award winner ... MVC Board of Director's and Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award and MVC Honor Roll ... Preseason All-MVC ... Dayton Flyer Invitational All-Tournament Team ... MVC Player of the Week (9/30/24) ... Appeared in all 118 sets in all 34 matches ... Recorded a .210 hitting percentage with a team and career-high 435 kills (4.20 per set), 37 assists (0.31 per set), a career-high tying 34 service aces (0.29 per set), 271 digs (2.30 per set) and 51 blocks (0.43 per set) ... Posted a season-high 21 kills at Illinois State (10/18/24) ... Dished out a career-high six service aces against both Florida International (8/30/24) and Illinois State (11/25/24) ... Recorded her 1,000th career dig in a 3-0 sweep of Missouri State (9/28/24), also becoming the 13th player to join the program's Double Grand Club with at least 1,000 kills and digs in her career ... Finished her career seventh in school history in kills (1,446) with 28 career double-doubles and having never missed a match (133).
2023: Second Team All-MVC ... MVC Elite 17 Award ... MVC All-Tournament Team ... MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team ... Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team ... UNI All-Tournament Team ... MVC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award and MVC Honor Roll ... MVC Player of the Week (Sept. 5) ... CSC First Team Academic All-District ... Appeared in all 114 sets in all 33 matches ... Recorded career-best totals with 400 kills (3.50 per set), 59 assists (0.51 per set) and 319 digs (2.79 per set), as well as 31 service aces (0.27 per set) and 45 blocks (0.39 per set) ... Posted 11 double-double performances ... Season-high 24 kills against Indiana State (11/3/23) ... Recorded the program's 31st 20-20 match with a 20-kill and career-best 23-dig performance against TCU (9/7/23) ... Notched a career-high four assists against Belmont (10/20/23), TCU (9/7/23) and Texas A&M (9/8/23) ... Tied her career-high with four service aces at UIC (11/10/23) ... Tied career-high with five blocks in win vs. Evansville (11/4/23) ... Became the 31st member of UNI's 1,000 career kill club with an 18-kill outing against Miami (FL) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (11/30/23) ... Finished the season with an active streak of 99 consecutive matches played, having not missed a match in her career.
2022: Elite 17 Award ... Academic All-District ... MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team ... MVC Board of Director's and Commissioner's Academic Excellence Awards and Honor Roll ... Appeared in all 130 sets while starting all 35 matches with career-high 360 kills at 2.77 kills per set, .157 attack percentage, 301 digs at 2.32 digs per set, 47 blocks at 0.36 blocks per set, 34 aces, and six double-doubles ... team-high 519 service attempts including seven-match service ace streak beginning against Western Michigan (9/9/22) and ending at Iowa (9/17/22) with 16 total aces in that stretch with career-high-tying four aces versus North Florida (9/16/22) ... 20 contests with double-digit kills including 10 terminations in NCAA Championship first round versus Florida State (12/2/22) ... second-ever 20-kill effort against Illinois State (10/8/22) with season-high 20 total terminations ... career-best five blocks against Bradley (10/7/22) ... season-high 20 digs against Southern Illinois (11/11/22) ... individual milestones included 500th career kill at Evansville (10/22/22) and 500th career dig at Bradley (11/5/22) ... finished with active streak of 66 consecutive starts with no matches missed to begin career.
2021: MVC All-Freshman Team ... MVC Honor Roll ... MVC Freshman of the Week honoree (11/15/21) ... GBD Invite All-Tournament Team ... played in 118 sets while starting all 31 matches ... finished with 277 digs at 2.35 per set, 251 kills at 2.13 per set, 39 blocks, and 30 service aces ... opened with three consecutive double-figure outings featuring 15 kills versus Ball State (8/28/21) ... also had three-match streak from Indiana State (11/12/21) through Valparaiso (11/19/21) ... career-high 25 kills at Evansville (11/13/21) with .524 attack percentage ... personal-best 16 digs versus Wright State (9/17/21), at Southern Illinois (10/9/21), and against Southern Illinois (11/5/21) ... career-high four service aces versus Gonzaga (9/9/21) ... finished with four double-doubles.
High School: Fallert was a five-time letterwinner for the Concordia Academy Beacons ... Fallert led the Beacons to the state tournament in 2016 (second place), 2018 (fourth place), and 2019 (fourth place) ... She finished her prep career with more than 1,500 kills, 1,000 digs, and 250 aces ... Fallert was named an MNVBCA All-State selection three times while making the All-Tournament Team in 2019 ... Fallert was a member of the National Honor Society and was named Academic All-State in 2020 ... Fallert was a Ms. Baden finalist as a senior.
Personal: Kira is the daughter of Chris and Pam Fallert ... she has two siblings, Megan and Erin ... Majoring in Biology: Biomedical.
2023: Second Team All-MVC ... MVC Elite 17 Award ... MVC All-Tournament Team ... MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team ... Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team ... UNI All-Tournament Team ... MVC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award and MVC Honor Roll ... MVC Player of the Week (Sept. 5) ... CSC First Team Academic All-District ... Appeared in all 114 sets in all 33 matches ... Recorded career-best totals with 400 kills (3.50 per set), 59 assists (0.51 per set) and 319 digs (2.79 per set), as well as 31 service aces (0.27 per set) and 45 blocks (0.39 per set) ... Posted 11 double-double performances ... Season-high 24 kills against Indiana State (11/3/23) ... Recorded the program's 31st 20-20 match with a 20-kill and career-best 23-dig performance against TCU (9/7/23) ... Notched a career-high four assists against Belmont (10/20/23), TCU (9/7/23) and Texas A&M (9/8/23) ... Tied her career-high with four service aces at UIC (11/10/23) ... Tied career-high with five blocks in win vs. Evansville (11/4/23) ... Became the 31st member of UNI's 1,000 career kill club with an 18-kill outing against Miami (FL) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (11/30/23) ... Finished the season with an active streak of 99 consecutive matches played, having not missed a match in her career.
2022: Elite 17 Award ... Academic All-District ... MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team ... MVC Board of Director's and Commissioner's Academic Excellence Awards and Honor Roll ... Appeared in all 130 sets while starting all 35 matches with career-high 360 kills at 2.77 kills per set, .157 attack percentage, 301 digs at 2.32 digs per set, 47 blocks at 0.36 blocks per set, 34 aces, and six double-doubles ... team-high 519 service attempts including seven-match service ace streak beginning against Western Michigan (9/9/22) and ending at Iowa (9/17/22) with 16 total aces in that stretch with career-high-tying four aces versus North Florida (9/16/22) ... 20 contests with double-digit kills including 10 terminations in NCAA Championship first round versus Florida State (12/2/22) ... second-ever 20-kill effort against Illinois State (10/8/22) with season-high 20 total terminations ... career-best five blocks against Bradley (10/7/22) ... season-high 20 digs against Southern Illinois (11/11/22) ... individual milestones included 500th career kill at Evansville (10/22/22) and 500th career dig at Bradley (11/5/22) ... finished with active streak of 66 consecutive starts with no matches missed to begin career.
2021: MVC All-Freshman Team ... MVC Honor Roll ... MVC Freshman of the Week honoree (11/15/21) ... GBD Invite All-Tournament Team ... played in 118 sets while starting all 31 matches ... finished with 277 digs at 2.35 per set, 251 kills at 2.13 per set, 39 blocks, and 30 service aces ... opened with three consecutive double-figure outings featuring 15 kills versus Ball State (8/28/21) ... also had three-match streak from Indiana State (11/12/21) through Valparaiso (11/19/21) ... career-high 25 kills at Evansville (11/13/21) with .524 attack percentage ... personal-best 16 digs versus Wright State (9/17/21), at Southern Illinois (10/9/21), and against Southern Illinois (11/5/21) ... career-high four service aces versus Gonzaga (9/9/21) ... finished with four double-doubles.
High School: Fallert was a five-time letterwinner for the Concordia Academy Beacons ... Fallert led the Beacons to the state tournament in 2016 (second place), 2018 (fourth place), and 2019 (fourth place) ... She finished her prep career with more than 1,500 kills, 1,000 digs, and 250 aces ... Fallert was named an MNVBCA All-State selection three times while making the All-Tournament Team in 2019 ... Fallert was a member of the National Honor Society and was named Academic All-State in 2020 ... Fallert was a Ms. Baden finalist as a senior.
Personal: Kira is the daughter of Chris and Pam Fallert ... she has two siblings, Megan and Erin ... Majoring in Biology: Biomedical.
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