17 Brenna Bell
Brenna Bell
  • Height:
    6-0
  • Year:
    Jr.
  • Hometown:
    Murrieta, CA
  • High School:
    Murrieta Valley
  • Position:
    RS
  • Major:
    Environment, Economics and Politics
  • College:
    Claremont McKenna
  • m
    31
  • k/s
    2.37
  • h %
    .277
  • a/s
    0.03
  • b/s
    0.71
  • sa/s
    0.00
  • d/s
    0.66

Bio



At CMS
2023 (Junior)
Second-Team All-SCIAC ... Academic All-District selection from College Sports Communicators (CSC)
... Played in 31 matches ... Was second on the team with 237 kills, while hitting .277 ... Added 71 blocks ... Had a career-high tying 18 kills in 30 attempts against WashU ... Matched her career high with six blocks three times ... Hit .488 in SCIAC Tournament (25-5-41) with 15 kills in 24 attempts against Whittier in the semifinals and 10 kills in 17 attempts against La Verne in the championship ... Hit .438 with 17 kills in 32 attempts against Trinity ... Had 11 kills in 16 attempts in a win over Texas-Dallas. 

2022 (Sophomore)
First-Team AVCA All-American ... First-Team All-West Region ... First-Team All-SCIAC ... Second-Team Academic All-America selection from College Sports Communicators (CSC) ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... 
Set a CMS record with a .404 hitting percentage, finishing the year seventh nationally (tops among outside hitters) ... Had 10 kills in 20 attempts against Texas-Dallas in the NCAA Regional Semifinals, while also adding a season-high six blocks ... Hit .800 (8-10) in the first round against Fontbonne ... Earned SCIAC Athlete of the Week honors after tallying 33 kills in 55 attempts over a 3-0 week, including 10 kills in 15 attempts against Pomona-Pitzer ... Hit .857 in a win over Occidental (12-14) ... Had a big day in a 3-1 win at Emory with 16 kills in 23 attempts. 

2021 (First-Year)

SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Played in 29 matches, totaling 157 kills (1.87 per set) ... Had a huge performance in the NCAA Regional Finals, when she had 18 kills in 36 attempts with no errors to help CMS knock off undefeated and host Wartburg in five sets ... Had the match-clinching kill against Wartburg for an 18-16 win in the fifth set ... Also had double figures in kills against Chapman in the SCIAC Championship match with 10 (in 22 tries), while adding a season-high six blocks ... Had 15 kills against Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 25 attempts in her first collegiate tournament (the Pacific Coast Classic) ... Tallied eight kills in 14 attempts in her debut against UC Santa Cruz. 

Prior to CMS
Attended Murrieta Valley High School, where she was a member of the volleyball team ... Also played club volleyball for Forza1 South ... Named to the Inland Sports Public Schools All-Area Volleyball Team in 2019 ... Was a Southwest League 2nd Team All League 2019, while also earning SW League All-Scholastic Team honors twice in 2018 and 2019 ... Helped Murrieta Valley to the CIF Division 2 finals in 2019, as well as an appearance in the state semifinals ... Academic honors included Valedictory Circle (Top 10), IB Diploma, and The Golden State Biliteracy Seal of Merit in German ... Extracurricular activities included Cards Club President 2019-2021, Tutoring for 150+ Hours, IB Club, NHS, Table Work for Men's Volleyball.

Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna, where she majors in environment, economics and politics ... Father, David, played water polo at the US Air Force Academy, where her mother also attended ... Spent the summer of 2022 playing in beach volleyball tournaments and traveling to Monterey and Florida ("I also worked at the local volleyball club that I played for as a high schooler. It was interesting to have a different perspective of my past coaches as I worked with them. Even now I was still able to learn things from them about volleyball while working alongside them.") ... Lists Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling as her favorite book ... Lists general chemistry as her favorite course she has taken in college so far ("I really enjoy STEM subjects and helping my peers learn. This school year I plan to TA for Gen Chem in the spring!") ... Chose CMS "because it had the best of both worlds: small class sizes but big social opportunities."

Brenna Bell posed shot

Player Profile

Recent Games
Nov 11 La Verne W, 3-0
Nov 16 vs. Mass.-Dartmouth W, 3-0
Nov 17 vs. Salisbury W, 3-0
Nov 18 at MIT W, 3-0
Nov 29 at Wis.-Oshkosh W, 3-0
Nov 30 at Hope L, 3-2
  Overall Conf
Matches 31 15
Sets 100 46
Kills 237 95
Kills per set 2.37 2.07
Errors 80 32
Total Attacks 566 242
Hitting Percentage .277 .260
Assists 3 1
Assists per set 0.03 0.02
Service Aces 0 0
Service Errors 0 0
Service Aces per set 0.00 0.00
Receptions 6 2
Reception Errors 2 2
Digs 66 29
Digs per set 0.66 0.63
Block Solo 0 0
Block Assist 71 35
Block Total 71 35
Blocks per set 0.71 0.76
Block Errors 0 0
Ball Handling Errors 1 0
Points 272.5 112.5
Points per set 2.7 2.4
Matches started 17 10
Date Opponent Score ms s k e ta pct a sa se r re digs bs ba be tot bhe pts
Sep 1 Carthage W, 3-0 - 3 6 1 11 .455 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 6.5
Sep 2 Wis.-Eau Claire W, 3-1 - 4 10 5 25 .200 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 11.0
Sep 2 Southwestern (Tex.) W, 3-2 1 4 6 6 24 .000 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 6 0 6 0 9.0
Sep 8 Washington (Mo.) L, 3-2 - 5 18 4 30 .467 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 18.5
Sep 9 Trinity (Tex.) W, 3-1 - 4 17 3 32 .438 0 0 0 1 0 6 0 3 0 3 0 18.5
Sep 9 Johns Hopkins L, 3-1 - 4 7 6 24 .042 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 2 0 8.0
Sep 15 vs. Chicago W, 3-0 1 3 4 3 12 .083 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4.5
Sep 15 vs. Texas-Dallas W, 3-0 1 3 11 2 16 .563 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 11.5
Sep 16 vs. Juniata L, 3-0 1 3 4 1 21 .143 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 5.0
Sep 22 Chapman W, 3-0 1 3 3 0 16 .188 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 4.5
Sep 23 at Occidental W, 3-0 1 2 6 2 12 .333 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 6.0
Sep 29 Redlands W, 3-0 - 3 5 1 14 .286 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 6.5
Sep 30 at Pomona-Pitzer W, 3-0 - 3 3 3 23 .000 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 3.5
Oct 3 La Verne W, 3-0 1 3 5 0 15 .333 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 6.5
Oct 6 at Cal Lutheran W, 3-0 1 3 4 2 11 .182 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4.0
Oct 7 Whittier W, 3-0 1 3 6 3 17 .176 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 3 0 3 0 7.5
Oct 10 at Caltech W, 3-0 - 3 9 0 13 .692 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 9.5
Oct 20 at Redlands W, 3-0 - 3 12 2 17 .588 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 12.5
Oct 21 Pomona-Pitzer W, 3-0 1 3 6 1 11 .455 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 6.5
Oct 24 at La Verne L, 3-1 1 4 4 5 17 -.059 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 4 0 6.0
Oct 27 Cal Lutheran W, 3-1 1 4 10 5 22 .227 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 6 0 6 0 13.0
Oct 28 at Whittier L, 3-0 1 3 10 3 22 .318 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 11.5
Oct 31 Caltech W, 3-0 1 3 7 4 21 .143 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 3 0 8.5
Nov 3 at Chapman W, 3-0 - 3 5 1 11 .364 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 6.5
Nov 4 Occidental W, 3-0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nov 9 Whittier W, 3-0 1 3 15 3 24 .500 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 6 0 6 0 18.0
Nov 11 La Verne W, 3-0 1 3 10 2 17 .471 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 11.0
Nov 16 vs. Mass.-Dartmouth W, 3-0 - 3 8 1 18 .389 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 3 0 9.5
Nov 17 vs. Salisbury W, 3-0 - 3 9 4 16 .313 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9.0
Nov 18 at MIT W, 3-0 - 3 7 3 16 .250 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 3 0 8.5
Nov 29 at Wis.-Oshkosh W, 3-0 1 3 7 3 23 .174 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 8.0
Nov 30 at Hope L, 3-2 - 3 3 1 15 .133 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 3.5
  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
2021-22 29 84 157 1.87 46 369 .301 6 0.07 0 0.00 2 0 42 0.50 1 28 29 0.35 172.0 2.0
2022-23 25 77 210 2.73 46 406 .404 2 0.03 0 0.00 3 1 43 0.56 1 50 51 0.66 236.0 3.1
2023-24 31 100 237 2.37 80 566 .277 3 0.03 0 0.00 6 2 66 0.66 0 71 71 0.71 272.5 2.7
Total 85 261 604 2.31 172 1341 .322 11 0.04 0 0.00 11 3 151 0.58 2 149 151 0.58 680.5 2.6
    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 31 100 237 2.37 80 566 .277 3 0.03 0 0.00 6 2 66 0.66 0 71 71 0.71 272.5 2.7
Conference 15 46 95 2.07 32 242 .260 1 0.02 0 0.00 2 2 29 0.63 0 35 35 0.76 112.5 2.4
Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Location Home 15 52 131 2.52 44 303 .287 2 0.04 0 0.00 5 1 40 0.77 0 45 45 0.87 153.5 3.0
Away 11 33 70 2.12 25 180 .250 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 1 19 0.58 0 19 19 0.58 79.5 2.4
Neutral 5 15 36 2.40 11 83 .301 1 0.07 0 0.00 0 0 7 0.47 0 7 7 0.47 39.5 2.6
Result Wins 25 78 191 2.45 60 437 .300 2 0.03 0 0.00 4 1 53 0.68 0 58 58 0.74 220.0 2.8
Losses 6 22 46 2.09 20 129 .202 1 0.05 0 0.00 2 1 13 0.59 0 13 13 0.59 52.5 2.4
Month September 13 44 100 2.27 37 260 .242 2 0.05 0 0.00 4 0 34 0.77 0 26 26 0.59 113.0 2.6
October 10 32 73 2.28 25 166 .289 1 0.03 0 0.00 2 2 19 0.59 0 25 25 0.78 85.5 2.7
November 8 24 64 2.67 18 140 .329 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 13 0.54 0 20 20 0.83 74.0 3.1

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