Kaylee Mejia

Kaylee Mejia readies for a serve at the Alki Pairs Tournament.

Boise State Beach Volleyball, Pairs Classic, Saturday, Oct 15, 2022, photo Patrick Sweeney

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Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Castle Rock, Colo.
High School:
Rock Canyon HS
Major:
Kinesiology

Southland Conference First Team, No. 4 position (2023)
SLC All-Academic Team (2023)
SLC Commissioner’s Honor Roll (2023)

BOISE STATE CAREER
SENIOR (2023-24): Did not compete due to injury.

JUNIOR (2022-23): Played in 35 matches, finishing with an individual record of 21-14…her 21 wins are the third-most in a single season in program history…named First Team All-Conference alongside partner Elli Wolthuis…played a majority of the season on the No. 4 court, finishing with a record of 15-5…her 15 wins at the No. 4 position are the most wins on the No. 4 court in program history…won 14 games on the No. 4 court with Wolthuis, breaking the program-record for wins as a pair on the No. 4 court…finished 4-0 at the Boise State Beach Classic, beginning an eight match win streak that included two wins over Oregon and Utah.

SOPHOMORE (2021-22): Played in 28 matches, finishing with a personal record of 18-10…went 2-1 at the season opening tournament (Feb. 25) with Sharli O’Neil, including wins over Arizona State’s Kate Fitzgerald and Taryn Ames 21-18, 21-16 and No. 12 Arizona’s Dilara Gedikoglu and Abby Russell 21-16, 21-19…defeated Gedikoglu and Russell again with O’Neil as her partner on March 4 21-14, 21-18…went 4-0 with O’Neil at the Northwest Invitational (March 11-12), including a win over Oregon’s Alex Laita and Batia Rotshtein 21-15, 21-15…defeated Washington’s Paloma Bowman and Ashley Shook 27-25, 21-19 at the Boise State’s Beach Classic (April 1-2)…ended the season going 2-0 at the Utah Tournament (April 23), defeating Julia Soeller and Vanessa Roscoe from No. 13 Cal Poly 21-16, 21-17 and Lauren Sayre and Sommer Daniel of Utah 22-24, 21-16, 16-14.

FRESHMAN (2020-21): Saw action in all 17 matches and two pairs tournaments recording a combined personal record of 15-11, fourth best mark on team...in team duals split time between the No. 2 and 3 pairs positions...played alongside Rori Chartier throughout the campaign...eight contests went three sets with the Bronco duo going 4-4...went 2-2 at the season opening tournament, the Cactus Classic at Tucson, Ariz. (March 6-7), recording wins at No. 3 pair versus Cierra Flood and Sarah Waters of No. 20 Arizona State 21-19, 21-11, and Stephen F. Austin's duo of Xariah Williams and Rylee Erwin 21-17, 21-11...recorded a three-set victory on court three over Long Beach State's (March 19) Kenzie Holtz and Makenzie Griffin 17-21, 21-15, 15-11...beat Utah's Olivia Teerlink and Camille Lee 21-12, 21-14 at No. 3 pair...won in three sets over CSUN's Darbi Honeycutt and Mikaela Maughan at No. 3 pair 12-21, 21-16, 15-11...went 4-1 at the Corban University AVCA April Pairs Tournament (April 2-3)...on road trip to TCU (April 9-10) in Fort Worth, Texas, went 3-1 overall recording No. 3 pair victories over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Tori Johnson and Jaylyn Porras 27-25, 21-14, and Houston Baptist's Natalie Bennett and Lindsay Harris 21-18, 21-12, then won at No. 2 pair over Tulane's Kendall Peters and Eva Torruella 21-23, 21-17, 15-5...closed season at Boise State Beach Classic (April 16-17) collecting No. 2 pair victories over Arizona State's Kate Fitzgerald and Emily Anderson 21-18, 21-16, as well as, Utah's Sage Patchell and Olivia Teerlink 21-14, 21-15.

HIGH SCHOOL CAREER
Comes to Boise from Castle Rock, Colo., where she was a 2020 graduate of Rock Canyon High School...before focusing solely on the beach game, she started for the Jaguars' indoor team her freshman and sophomore seasons as a libero and defensive specialist...helped the team to a third-place finish in the state tournament her freshman year...a four-year Deans' List honoree and had a 3.95 GPA.

CLUB CAREER
In beach, Mejia placed first in two LAB AVP America U18 tournaments in 2019...was selected for the USA Beach High Performance A2 Zonal 19U team in 2018 and 2019...In 2018 she won two California Beach Volleyball Association tournaments on July 18th and 19th, as well as, the top finisher in the USAVB Rocky Mountain Regional 18U tournament...also played indoor ball for the Colorado Juniors Club in Monument, Colo., where they placed in several tournaments across the region.