2025 Women's Volleyball Roster
Roster
Askelsen, Payton
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Jersey Number 19
Payton Askelsen
- Position:
- Defensive Specialist/Libero
- Class:
- Freshman
- High School:
- Ballard HS
- Hometown:
- Cambridge, Iowa
Bio
HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letterwinner and two-year captain in volleyball at Ballard High School ... Three-time All-Racoon River Conference selection, earning First Team honors as a senior in 2024 ... 2024 Second Team All-State honoree and IGCA Senior All-Star Game participant ... Four-year Academic All-Conference Award winner ... Earned Ballard Volleyball’s 2023 Bomber Award and 2024 Defensive Player of the Year Award ... 2025 Lisa Brinkmeyer Award winner ... Played eight years of club volleyball with Ohana Volleyball Club (2017-19) and Iowa Power Plex (2019-25), qualifying for the USA Volleyball Nationals in 2023 ... Was also a three-year letterwinner and state medalist in tennis, playing doubles alongside her sister, while also earning four Academic All-Conference honors ... Two-year letterwinner in softball with two Academic All-Conference Awards, helping Ballard reach the state tournament in 2022 ... Four-year Ballard and DMACC Honor Roll student, four-time Ballard Academic Award winner, three-time DMACC President’s List Award recipent and two-year member of National Honor Society ... Participated in student council, Transition Team to mentor incoming freshmen, Fellow of Christian Athletes (FCA), Stomp Out Stigma, International Student Club, Eighth Grade Oreintation, Prom Committee and was also Ballard’s 2024 Homecoming Queen ... Nominated by her athletic director to the Racoon River Athlete Leadership Conference in 2023.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Chad and Suzanne Askelsen ... Has two older and three younger siblings ... Enjoys volunteering, spending time with family and friends, ATV riding, being active, swimming, traveling and coaching youth volleyball and tennis ... Majoring in marketing.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Chad and Suzanne Askelsen ... Has two older and three younger siblings ... Enjoys volunteering, spending time with family and friends, ATV riding, being active, swimming, traveling and coaching youth volleyball and tennis ... Majoring in marketing.
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