13 Dede Carranza
Dede Carranza
  • Height:
    5-5
  • Year:
    So.
  • Hometown:
    Gardena, CA
  • High School:
    Vistamar School
  • Position:
    L/DS
  • College:
    Claremont McKenna
  • m
    31
  • k/s
    0.10
  • h %
    .258
  • a/s
    1.03
  • b/s
    0.00
  • sa/s
    0.49
  • d/s
    4.66

Bio



At CMS
2022 (Sophomore)
SCIAC Defensive Player of the Year ... First-Team AVCA All-West Region ... Honorable mention AVCA All-American ... SCIAC Tournament Most Outstanding Player ... All-Tournament Team at East-West Battle ...
Led CMS with 461 digs and 49 service aces ... Returned 340 serves with only eight errors, including 77 successful serve receives without an error in five postseason matches ... Had season-high 26 digs in both matches with Trinity, including the regular season at the East-West Battle and the NCAA Regional Finals ... Had 24 digs in only three sets in a regular season win over La Verne ... Tallied 21 digs in a win over Emory ... Had a season-high seven assists in a win over Babson ... Tallied six service aces in a win at Caltech. 

2021 (First-Year)
SCIAC Specialist of the Week (Oct. 11) ...
SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Played in all 33 matches for CMS, taking over as the starting libero in the 11th match after an injury to senior Makenna Fall ... Finished the year with a team-high 547 digs (5.02 per set), to go along with 75 assists and 27 aces ... Had a season-high 38 digs in the NCAA Regional Finals, a 3-2 win over Wartburg ... Also had 30 digs in the opening round against Aurora, 26 in the NCAA Quarterfinals against Berry and 27 in the NCAA Semifinals against Calvin ... Had 33 digs against Whittier in the regular season finale ... Had 31 digs in a three-set win at Redlands ... Totaled 25 assists in a three-set win over Chapman in her first match in the starting line-up, after which she earned the SCIAC Specialist of the Week Award ... Had a season-high four aces in wins over La Verne and Occidental.   

Prior to CMS
Attended Vistamar School in El Segundo, California, where she was a four-year letter-winner for the volleyball team ... Also competed for Beach Cities Volleyball Club ... Earned 2020-2021 PVL Special Recognition Award ... Named 2019 Vistamar Power Athlete of the Year ... Earned CIF Girls Volleyball Coastal All League, All-CIF Southern Section Team Award and Daily Breeze All-Area Girls Volleyball Team honors in 2019 ... Also selected as the Daily Breeze Girl's Athlete of the Week in 2019 ... Earned 2018 CIF Girls Volleyball Coastal All League First-Team and All-CIF Southern Section Team Awards ... Named to 2018 Daily Breeze Players To Watch List ... 2017 CIF Volleyball Coastal All League Second Team ... Helped Vistamar to a 2019 CIF Division 5 runner-up finish, as well as 2017 and 2018 Chadwick Tournament and 2019 Torrance Tournament  titles ... Academic honors included the 2020 George Washington University Book Award, the 2019 Scholar Athlete of the Year, Latino Tigre Vistamar Scholar honors for four years, and the 2018-2019 The National Society of High School Scholars Award ... Served as a Club Volleyball Intern at L.A City Council District 8, where she assisted Council-member Marqueece Harris-Dawson and staff with political issues while also attending town hall meetings ... Volunteer Coach for Beach Cities VBC, teaching kids how to play volleyball.

Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna ... Active in the local community while in high school, volunteering at Portraits of Hope, a program aimed at enriching the lives of children and adults, who may be coping with adversity or serious illness, through their participation in educational and one-of-a-kind projects, at the Beach Day Foundation, assisting kids with special needs, and at the Rich Stone Walk Family Center.

Dede Carranza posed shot

Player Profile

Recent Games
Oct 29 La Verne W, 3-0
Nov 3 La Verne W, 3-0
Nov 5 Pomona-Pitzer W, 3-0
Nov 10 Fontbonne W, 3-0
Nov 11 Texas-Dallas W, 3-0
Nov 12 Trinity (Tex.) L, 3-2
  Overall Conf
Matches 31 16
Sets 99 49
Kills 10 7
Kills per set 0.10 0.14
Errors 2 1
Total Attacks 31 20
Hitting Percentage .258 .300
Assists 102 44
Assists per set 1.03 0.90
Service Aces 49 28
Service Errors 20 6
Service Aces per set 0.49 0.57
Receptions 340 142
Reception Errors 8 4
Digs 461 240
Digs per set 4.66 4.90
Block Solo 0 0
Block Assist 0 0
Block Total 0 0
Blocks per set 0.00 0.00
Block Errors 0 0
Ball Handling Errors 0 0
Points 59.0 35.0
Points per set 0.6 0.7
Matches started - -
Date Opponent Score ms s k e ta pct a sa se r re digs bs ba be tot bhe pts
Sep 2 UC Santa Cruz W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 2 0 0 14 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sep 2 Babson W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 7 1 0 10 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Sep 3 New York U. W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 1 .000 6 2 0 11 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 3 Millikin W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 3 2 1 11 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 9 vs. Johns Hopkins W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 1 .000 3 2 1 5 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 10 vs. Trinity (Tex.) W, 3-1 - 4 0 0 2 .000 4 0 3 15 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sep 10 at Emory W, 3-1 - 4 0 0 0 - 1 3 2 31 3 21 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Sep 16 vs. UC Santa Cruz W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 3 0 0 6 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sep 16 vs. Endicott W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 1 1.000 4 1 3 10 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 17 vs. Colorado College W, 3-1 - 4 0 0 0 - 3 2 0 21 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 20 at Whittier W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 3 1 1 10 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Sep 23 Occidental W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 2 .000 2 1 0 12 1 12 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Sep 24 at La Verne W, 3-0 - 3 0 1 2 -.500 1 0 1 15 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sep 27 Redlands W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 1 .000 6 2 0 3 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Sep 30 at Cal Lutheran W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 1 1.000 4 2 0 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Oct 4 Chapman W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 1 1.000 3 5 0 11 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Oct 7 at Caltech W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 1 6 1 8 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Oct 8 Pomona-Pitzer W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 1 1.000 2 2 1 9 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Oct 11 at Redlands W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 2 .000 0 3 0 4 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Oct 14 Cal Lutheran W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 2 .500 3 0 0 6 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Oct 18 at Chapman W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 1 .000 3 0 0 10 1 20 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oct 21 Caltech W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 2 .500 1 2 0 5 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Oct 22 at Pomona-Pitzer W, 3-1 - 4 0 0 2 .000 2 2 1 11 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Oct 25 Whittier W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 5 2 1 5 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Oct 28 at Occidental W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 2 .500 3 0 0 13 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Oct 29 La Verne W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 1 1.000 5 0 0 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Nov 3 La Verne W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 0 - 3 2 0 12 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 2.0
Nov 5 Pomona-Pitzer W, 3-0 - 3 0 1 2 -.500 2 1 0 10 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
Nov 10 Fontbonne W, 3-0 - 3 0 0 1 .000 6 3 1 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Nov 11 Texas-Dallas W, 3-0 - 3 1 0 1 1.000 4 2 1 9 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
Nov 12 Trinity (Tex.) L, 3-2 - 5 1 0 2 .500 7 0 2 23 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 1.0
  m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
2021-22 33 109 12 0.11 4 50 .160 75 0.69 37 0.34 423 14 547 5.02 0 0 0 0.00 49.0 0.4
2022-23 31 99 10 0.10 2 31 .258 102 1.03 49 0.49 340 8 461 4.66 0 0 0 0.00 59.0 0.6
2023-24 32 107 9 0.08 1 26 .308 128 1.20 54 0.50 366 13 539 5.04 0 0 0 0.00 63.0 0.6
Total 96 315 31 0.10 7 107 .224 305 0.97 140 0.44 1129 35 1547 4.91 0 0 0 0.00 171.0 0.5
    m s k k/s e ta pct a a/s sa sa/s r re digs d/s bs ba tot b/s pts pts/s
Event Total 31 99 10 0.10 2 31 .258 102 1.03 49 0.49 340 8 461 4.66 0 0 0 0.00 59.0 0.6
Conference 16 49 7 0.14 1 20 .300 44 0.90 28 0.57 142 4 240 4.90 0 0 0 0.00 35.0 0.7
Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Location Home 17 53 7 0.13 1 17 .353 67 1.26 27 0.51 169 2 243 4.58 0 0 0 0.00 34.0 0.6
Away 9 29 2 0.07 1 10 .100 18 0.62 17 0.59 114 6 146 5.03 0 0 0 0.00 19.0 0.7
Neutral 5 17 1 0.06 0 4 .250 17 1.00 5 0.29 57 0 72 4.24 0 0 0 0.00 6.0 0.4
Result Wins 30 94 9 0.10 2 29 .241 95 1.01 49 0.52 317 8 435 4.63 0 0 0 0.00 58.0 0.6
Losses 1 5 1 0.20 0 2 .500 7 1.40 0 0.00 23 0 26 5.20 0 0 0 0.00 1.0 0.2
Month September 15 48 2 0.04 1 11 .091 52 1.08 19 0.40 186 5 208 4.33 0 0 0 0.00 21.0 0.4
October 11 34 6 0.18 0 14 .429 28 0.82 22 0.65 90 3 176 5.18 0 0 0 0.00 28.0 0.8
November 5 17 2 0.12 1 6 .167 22 1.29 8 0.47 64 0 77 4.53 0 0 0 0.00 10.0 0.6

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Photos

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  • UC Santa Cruz vs. Claremont-M-S
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  • UC Santa Cruz vs. Claremont-M-S
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  • Babson vs. Claremont-M-S
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  • Occidental vs. Claremont-M-S
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  • Chapman vs. Claremont-M-S
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  • Chapman vs. Claremont-M-S
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  • Pomona-Pitzer vs. Claremont-M-S
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  • Texas-Dallas vs. Claremont-M-S
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  • Texas-Dallas vs. Claremont-M-S