Becky Barrett

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Position:
Defensive Specialist
Class:
Junior
High School:
Athens
Hometown:
Athens, Ill.

• Horizon League Academic All-League (2025)
• College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2024)
• Horizon League Academic Honor Roll (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

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2025: Played in all 29 matches ... Named to the Horizon League Academic All-League Team ... Had 20 or more digs in 11 matches ... Had 20 digs in each of the first three matches against Middle Tennessee (Aug. 29), Butler (Aug. 29) and Evansville (Aug. 30) ... Dug out 23 attempts in a win over Niagara (Sept. 5) ... Had a double-double of 18 digs and 10 assists vs. Mercyhurst (Sept. 19) ... Had 20 digs against Robert Morris (Sept. 27) and 27 the following week against Green Bay (Oct. 4) ... Recorded a career-high 31 digs against Cleveland State (Oct. 17) and followed it up with 23 the following night against the Vikings (Oct. 18) ... Had 22 digs at Milwaukee (Oct. 31) then finished the season with 31 against Wright State (Nov. 7) and 23 at Youngstown State (Nov. 14).

2024: Played in all 32 matches during her sophomore season, appearing in 114 total sets … Finished the season with 230 digs … Had a season-high 19 digs against Robert Morris (Sept. 28) … Totaled 21 assists … Assisted on two kills against IU Indy (Oct. 1) … Scored all 30 of her points on service aces with a season-high four against UIC (Sept. 6).

2023: Played in all 30 matches during her freshman season, appearing in 105 total sets … Finished the season with 235 digs … Totaled 23 assists … Scored all nine of her points on service aces with two against both Oklahoma (Aug. 25) and Manhattan (Sept. 2) … Had season-high 15 digs and three assists against Niagara (Sept. 8) … Assisted on three kills against Miami (OH) (Sept. 15) … Dug out 15 attacks against Northern Kentucky (Nov. 11).

High School: Was a four-time All-Tomahawk Conference honoree, an honorable mention in 2019 and a first teamer in 2020, 2021 and 2022 ... Earned News-Gazette All-State Honorable Mention honors in 2020 and 2021 after leading her team to third in the state in 2019 ... Played club volleyball for the Illini Elite Volleyball Club from 2016-22 ... Finished her career with 1,356 digs ... Member of the National Honor Society, Math Team, Worldwide Youth Science and Engineering Academic Challenge Team ... Earned High Honors in all four quarters in each of her first three years of high school.

Personal: Daughter of Jason and Elizabeth Barrett ... Has three sisters, Adrien, Chloe and Devan ... Mother, Elizabeth and sister, Adrien played volleyball at Southern Illinois ... Majoring in education.