Career Notes: 2020 California Pacific Conference Honorable Mention...Currently holds the program's best career hitting percentage with a .370 mark...Second all-time with 49 career services, .27 per set...Fourth in program history with 29 solo blocks and fifth with 117 total blocks...Ranked tenth in program history with 261 kills...Holds career-high's of 13 kills, eight blocks, seven digs and seven service aces...3X Cal Pac Player of the Week.
2020: California Pacific Conference Honorable Mention...Appeared in 60 sets across 18 matches...Finished fourth on the team with 89 total kills (1.48 per set)...Ranked 15th in the NAIA with a .380 hitting percentage...380 hitting percentage was good for third all-time on the program's single-season record list...Led the Bobcats with 44 blocks (.73 per set) and 18 service aces (0.3 per set)...12 of his 44 blocks were solo...Finished with the second best service aces per set mark in program history...Also had 50 digs and eight assists...Held match-high with four blocks and tallied six digs against Westcliff University (1/11)...Stuffed the stat sheet on the first day of the Oak Invitational, beginning with eight kills, four blocks and two service aces against Siena Heights University (1/17)...Tallied a career-high eight blocks and added three service aces in the nightcapt against Hope International University (1/17)...Became the first Bobcat since January 6, 2017 with eight blocks in a four-set match...Was the Bobcats most efficient hitter at seventh-ranked Menlo College (1/18), recording nine kills on a .438 hitting percentage and set a career-high with seven digs at the Oak Invitational...Had eight kills on a .429 hitting percentage at The Master's University (1/24)...Became just the fifth player in program history with four service aces in a three-set match and also had six kills without an error and tied his career-high with seven digs against Simpson (2/2)...Was named the California Pacific Conference Defensive Player of the Week on February 3...Dominated in the middle as he tied his season-high with nine kills and shared match-high with four blocks, one solo, against OUAZ (2/8)...Also hit .417 against OUAZ with two service aces...Hit 1.000 with six kills against Vanguard University (2/28) and became just the fourth ever player to be perfect in a GSAC match...Was good for seven kills on a .429 hitting percentage at Park University Gilbert (3/8).
2019: Finished with ten kills and two blocks in the home opener vs. Hope International University (1/25)...Added ten kils vs. Westcliff (1/27)...Career-high seven blocks, four solo in a win over #6 St. Ambrose University (2/01)... Back-to-back service aces at Arizona Christian (2/08)...Team-high 12 kills on a stellar .611 hitting percentage vs. OUAZ (2/15)...Pitched in six kills, three blocks and three service aces in a sweep over Menlo College (2/23)...Hit .500 and registered a career-high 13 kills at Hope International University (3/02)... Added seven kills and shared team-high with three blocks at OUAZ (3/16)...Team-high seven kills and five blocks, one solo at Menlo College (3/30)...Had eight kills without an error en route to a .667 hitting pct. in GSAC Semifinals (4/05)...Also had three solo blocks against the 2019 NAIA Champion
2018: As a freshman, appeared in 14 sets...registered seven kills and six total block.
Personal: Goes by E-man...Has two siblings...Heavily involved on campus and is part of the Black Student Union, National Society of Black Engineers and the UC Merced Athletics Events Staff where he can be found hanging out with Rufus the Bobcat...Also does plenty of bioengineering lab work on campus...Would like to become a Biomedical Engineer after his volleyball career...Favorite food is chicken alfredo...Favorite team is the Los Angeles Lakers...Favorite musician is Bruno Mars and favorite movie is The Lion King...Has set his athletic goals to become a NAIA First Team All-American...Brother Eddy plays basketball at University of Montana...Lists his parents as his biggest influence because they started a life in America with no connections and raised E-man and his brothers in a loving home.
