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#12 Inky Ajanaku
Position: Middle Blocker
Height: 6'3"
Year: Senior
Hometown: Tulsa, Okla.
High School: Bishop Kelley
Major: Human Biology
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As a Senior (2015)

• Will miss the season due to a knee injury sustained playing with the U.S. National Team in June

As a Junior (2014) | Match-By-Match Statistics

Volleyball Magazine National Player of the Year
• AVCA All-America first team
Volleyball Magazine All-America first team
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• Honda Volleyball Sports Award finalist
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• Preseason All-Pac-12 Conference
• AVCA National Player of the Week (9/9)
• Two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week (9/1 & 9/8)
• Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (10/27)
• Ames Regional Most Outstanding Player
• Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge MVP
• USD Invitational All-Tournament Team
• Seventh in the nation with a .428 hitting percentage
• Second in the Pac-12 with a .428 hitting percentage, sixth in blocks (1.14), eighth in points (4.13) and 10th in kills (3.48)
• Registered a career high 21 kills on 33 attempts to hit .576 in a win over No. 20 Duke (9/12)
• Turned in a season-best .667 hitting percentage (11-1-15) against CSUN (9/20)
• Totaled 16 kills on a .481 hitting percentage and five blocks in a five-set win at Colorado (10/17)
• Led the team with 15 kills and tallied a season high nine blocks in a win over No. 17 UCLA (10/24)
• Tallied a team high 20 kills on a .457 hitting percentage and six blocks in a win over No. 20 Arizona State (11/5)
• Totaled 13 kills on .458 hitting and four blocks against Michigan State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament (12/6)
• Led the team with 16 kills and three blocks in the Ames Regional semifinal win over Oregon State (12/12)
• Recorded her 1,000th career kill in the Ames Regional final sweep over No. 5 Florida (12/13)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Sophomore (2013) | Match-By-Match Statistics

• AVCA First Team All-American
• Volleyball Magazine Third Team All-American
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• AVCA National Player of the Week (12/3)
• Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (12/2)
• Appeared in 107 sets
• Second in the Pac-12 with a .438 hitting percentage (9th nationally) and third with 1.38 blocks per set (21st nationally)
• One of five Cardinal players to average at least 2.72 kills per set
• Hit .539 (8-1-13) to go with a season high nine blocks in a sweep over then-No. 16 Arizona State (9/27)
• Hit .615 with nine kills and tallied three blocks, including the 200th of her career, against Colorado (10/12)
• Hit a career high .800 (8-0-10) with two blocks against Oregon State (10/25)
• Led the team with a season-best 15 kills and seven blocks at Arizona (11/27)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Freshman (2012) | Match-By-Match Statistics

• AVCA All-America honorable mention
• AVCA All-Pacific Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• All-Pac-12 Freshman Team
• Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (10/15 & 10/29)
• Berkeley Regional All-Tournament Team
• Played in 116 sets, making 24 starts at middle blocker
• 2.42 kills and 1.23 blocks per set
• Third in the Pac-12 and 28th nationally with a .374 hitting percentage
• Made her collegiate debut in the season opener versus Saint Mary's (8/24), totaling seven kills and two blocks
• Eight kills and a career-best 10 blocks versus then-No. 2 Oregon (10/5)
• A career high 17 kills on a .419 hitting percentage with seven blocks versus UCLA (10/12)

High School

• A 2012 graduate of Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, Okla.
• A three-year letterwinner and captain of her team as a senior
• Lettered twice in track and once in basketball
• Team was a four-time Oklahoma state champion and the 2012 academic state champion
• No. 2 ranked recruit by PrepVolleyball.com
• 2011 AVCA Under Armour First Team All-American and Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Year
• Named Under Armour Most Undeniable Player for Team West
• A 2010 and 2011 Class 6A state tournament MVP and All-Metro Volleyball Player of the Year
• An all-state pick, holds her high school's career record for attack percentage (.634)

Club Competition

• Played for Club ONE Volleyball

National Team Experience

• Competed for the A2 U.S. Women's Junior National Team in 2011

Personal

• Daughter of Kunle Ajanaku and Tola Elliott
• Has an older brother, Kunle, and an older sister, Kitan, who plays volleyball at Georgia State
• Major is human biology
• Contemplating a career as an orthopedic surgeon
• Hobbies include cooking, biking and swimming
• Full name is Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku

Career Statistics

Season S K KPS E TA PCT A APS SA SE SAPS RE D DPS BS BA TOT BPS BE PTS
2012 116 281 2.42 76 548 .374 5 0.04 0 1 0.00 0 25 0.22 13 130 143 1.23 22 359.0
2013 107 291 2.72 66 514 .438 6 0.06 0 0 0.00 0 30 0.28 25 123 148 1.38 26 377.5
2014 126 438 3.48 93 806 .428 29 0.23 0 0 0.00 2 31 0.25 20 124 144 1.14 20 520.0
Totals 349 1010 2.89 235 1868 .415 40 0.11 0 1 0.00 2 86 0.25 58 377 435 1.25 68 1256.5

 

Career Highs

Kills 21, vs. Duke (9/12/14)
Attempts 35, vs. Arizona State (11/5/14)
Aces None
Digs 5, at Penn State (8/31/12)
Assists 4, at California (11/23/12)
Blocks 10, vs. Oregon (10/5/12)
Hitting Percentage .800 (8-0-10), vs. Oregon State (10/25/13)
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