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Rylee Rader

Middle Blocker

Player profile

  • Hometown Louisville, Ky.
  • Last School Assumption H.S.
  • Year Senior
  • Height 6-2

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CAREER HONORS

  • AVCA All-American Second Team (2021)
  • AVCA Northeast All-Region (2020, 21)
  • All-Big Ten First Team (2021)
  • All-Big Ten Second Team (2020, 2022)
  • Big Ten All-Freshman Team (2020)
  • Preseason All-Big Ten Team (2022)
  • Big Ten Defensive Player & Co-Freshman of the Week (March 1, 2021)
  • Big Ten Freshman of the Week (March 15, 2021)
  • Holds the program’s career record for hit percentage (.394)
  • Red Raider Classic MVP and All-Tournament Team (2021)
  • VCU Invitational All-Tournament Team (2021)
  • Academic All-Big Ten (2021, 22)
  • OSU Scholar Athlete (2022)

YEAR-BY-YEAR

2022 (Junior)

  • Played in 30 matches and 112 sets
  • Broke into the top-20 in program history in career blocks in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament at Texas (12/10) and now ranks 18th with 285 career blocks
  • Posted career-highs in service aces (23), digs (81) and digs per set (0.72)
  • Recorded her 500th career kill at Georgia Tech (9/11) and 600th at Michigan State (11/5)
  • Had her 200th career block against BYU (9/9)
  • Posted her 100th career dig at Michigan (9/28)
  • Matched her career-high 15 kills against Wisconsin (11/26), also setting a career-high in attacks (41)
  • Tied her career-high three aces on three occasions – against BYU (9/9), against Wisconsin (11/26) and in the NCAA second round against USC (12/3)
  • Had a career-high six digs twice – at Michigan (9/28) and vs. Indiana (11/20)

2021 (Sophomore)

  • Set a new program record for single-season attack percentage (minimum 200 kills) by hitting .443 (297 kills, 35 errors, 605 total attempts)
  • Tied the program’s individual match record for attack percentage (minimum of 10 attempts) by hitting .900 (nine kills, 0 errors, 10 attempts) at Notre Dame (9/17)
  • Ranked fourth in the country in hitting percentage (.445) at the end of the regular season, finished the season fifth (.433)
  • Recorded her 100th career block at Notre Dame (9/17)
  • Played in all 33 matches and 114 sets
  • Totaled 297 kills (third on the team), averaging 2.61 per set
  • Ranked second on the team in blocks (117), averaging 1.03 per set throughout the season
  • Had 14 matches with at least 10 kills, including the second round of the NCAA Tournament against Tennessee (12/4)
  • Recorded a career-high 15 kills in wins against No. 9 Nebraska (11/6) and No. 15 Penn State (11/21)
  • Had a career-high 10 blocks in the four-set win against Iowa (11/19)
  • Posted a career-high three aces and four digs against No. 11 Minnesota (11/4)

2020 (Freshman)

  • Played in 17 matches and 67 total sets
  • Totaled 162 kills (2.42 per set), 18 blocks, six digs and three service aces
  • Had a season-high 14 kills against Nebraska, one of nine matches where she reached 10 kills
  • Totaled a season-high 6.5 blocks against Rutgers

PRIOR TO OHIO STATE

  • Four-year letterwinner at Assumption High School
  • Led Assumption to three straight Kentucky state championships
  • 2019 Under Armour First Team All-American
  • 2019 First Team All-Kentucky
  • Kentucky’s Gatorade Player of the Year in 2017 and 2018
  • Named All-USA Volleyball Player of the Year by USA Today as a junior
  • 2018 PrepVolleyball.com, FloVolleyball and MaxPreps All-American
  • Spent club career with KIVA

PERSONAL INFO

  • Daughter of Bryan and Leslie Rader
  • Has a younger brother, Drake
  • Her father played football at Southern Illinois