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Jersey Number 15
Lily Dykstra
- Position:
- Outside Hitter
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Urbandale HS
- Hometown:
- Urbandale, Iowa
2025: First Team All-MVC ... AVCA All-Region Honorable Mention ... MVC All-Tournament Team ... MVC Scholar-Athlete Team ... MVC Player of the Week (11/10/25) ... CSC Academic All-District ... Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team ... Capital Credit Union Classic All-Tournament Team ... Appeared in and started all 32 matches and 112 sets ... Recorded 407 kills (3.63 per set) with a .242 hitting percentage along with 21 service aces (0.19 per set), 195 digs (1.74 per set), 11 assists (0.10 per set) and 50 total blocks (0.45 per set) ... Posted a career-high 25 kills and 14 digs against Utah in the NCAA Tournament (12/4/25), plus a season-high five blocks vs. South Dakota State (8/30/25) ... Tallied 19 matches on the season with ten or more kills, including four matches with 20+ kills ... Notched first two career double-doubles against South Dakota State (8/30/25) and Utah (12/4/25).
2024: Second Team All-MVC ... CSC Academic All-District ... MVC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award and MVC Honor Roll ... Appeared in 102 set and all 34 matches ... Recorded a .249 hitting percentage with 206 kills (2.02 per set), three assists (0.03 per set), 56 digs (0.55 per set) and 50 blocks (0.49 per set) ... Posted new career-highs with 14 kills against both UIC (11/26/24) and Louisville (12/7/24), five blocks at Murray State (11/1/24) and six blocks at UIC (10/5/24).
2023: MVC Honor Roll ... Appeared in seven sets across two matches ... Totaled 17 kills (2.42 per set) with a .077 attack percentage, one assist, five digs (0.71 per set) and three block assists ... Tallied nine kills on 20 attacks and a .150 attack percentage with three digs and two block assists in her collegiate debut vs. Milwaukee (8/26/23) ... Eight kills, two digs and one block assist at Western Michigan (8/26/23).
HIGH SCHOOL: Dykstra's tenure with the Urbandale J-Hawks featured recognition as the 2022 IGCA Player of the Year and Class 5A Player of the Year to go along with Elite All-State, All-State, All-District, and Senior All-Star nods to cap her prep volleyball career ... She helped Urbandale to back-to-back Class 5A state quarterfinal berths in 2021 and 2022 while tallying 500+ kills in both years and earning Class 5A All-Tournament Team plaudits as a senior ... Her final statistics included 1818 kills, 807 digs, and 192 blocks ... She was a four-time First Team All-CIML honoree, a three-time Class 5A All-State (First Team twice) and All-District pick, and a two-time Elite All-State selection ... Dykstra also competed in tennis and finished in eighth place at the IGHSAU Class 2A state doubles meet during her senior and sophomore seasons with a Region 3 title in 2021 ... In club competition, she was a teammate of fellow UNI signee Cassidy Hartman at Six Pack Volleyball Club at the 2023 USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championship and landed in fifth place in the 18 National division ... Previously, Dykstra played for Iowa PowerPlex Volleyball Club and earned third place in the 17 American division at the 2022 USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championship.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Pamela and Scott Dykstra and the sister of Drew and Avery ... Majoring in Marketing: Sales Management and Business Administration.
2024: Second Team All-MVC ... CSC Academic All-District ... MVC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award and MVC Honor Roll ... Appeared in 102 set and all 34 matches ... Recorded a .249 hitting percentage with 206 kills (2.02 per set), three assists (0.03 per set), 56 digs (0.55 per set) and 50 blocks (0.49 per set) ... Posted new career-highs with 14 kills against both UIC (11/26/24) and Louisville (12/7/24), five blocks at Murray State (11/1/24) and six blocks at UIC (10/5/24).
2023: MVC Honor Roll ... Appeared in seven sets across two matches ... Totaled 17 kills (2.42 per set) with a .077 attack percentage, one assist, five digs (0.71 per set) and three block assists ... Tallied nine kills on 20 attacks and a .150 attack percentage with three digs and two block assists in her collegiate debut vs. Milwaukee (8/26/23) ... Eight kills, two digs and one block assist at Western Michigan (8/26/23).
HIGH SCHOOL: Dykstra's tenure with the Urbandale J-Hawks featured recognition as the 2022 IGCA Player of the Year and Class 5A Player of the Year to go along with Elite All-State, All-State, All-District, and Senior All-Star nods to cap her prep volleyball career ... She helped Urbandale to back-to-back Class 5A state quarterfinal berths in 2021 and 2022 while tallying 500+ kills in both years and earning Class 5A All-Tournament Team plaudits as a senior ... Her final statistics included 1818 kills, 807 digs, and 192 blocks ... She was a four-time First Team All-CIML honoree, a three-time Class 5A All-State (First Team twice) and All-District pick, and a two-time Elite All-State selection ... Dykstra also competed in tennis and finished in eighth place at the IGHSAU Class 2A state doubles meet during her senior and sophomore seasons with a Region 3 title in 2021 ... In club competition, she was a teammate of fellow UNI signee Cassidy Hartman at Six Pack Volleyball Club at the 2023 USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championship and landed in fifth place in the 18 National division ... Previously, Dykstra played for Iowa PowerPlex Volleyball Club and earned third place in the 17 American division at the 2022 USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championship.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Pamela and Scott Dykstra and the sister of Drew and Avery ... Majoring in Marketing: Sales Management and Business Administration.
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