Mary Shaffer

2021

• All-ACC Academic selection
• Appeared in 28 matches, including 26 starts, and played in 99 sets
• Third on the team in kills per set (1.91) and total kills (189)
• Fourth on the team in hitting percentage (.175)
• Tournament MVP of UVA’s second home tournament (Sept. 17-18)
• Posted a career-high 14 kills against Clemson (Oct. 10) and Bellarmine (Sept. 17)
• Recorded a career-high eight digs against Ohio State (Sept. 11)
• Notched a career-best six blocks in four matches: Hofstra (Aug. 28), Akron (Sept. 3), at Wake Forest (Nov. 12) and at Boston College (Nov. 26)
• Posted double-digit kills in sweeps over Bellarmine, Georgetown and Fairleigh Dickinson, including 14 kills against BU (Sept. 17).
• All-tournament selection in UVA’s first home tournament (Sept. 3-4)
• Maryland Invite (Aug. 27-28) all-tournament selection
• Appeared on ESPN SportsCenter’s Top-10 Plays – at No. 3 – for keeping a ball in play with her foot before registering a block assist

2020

• Appeared in two matches and appeared in three sets

HIGH SCHOOL

• AVCA High School All-America Honorable Mention
• First-team All-State in 2019 and second-team selection in 2018
• Two-time All-District and All-Girls Catholic first team selections

CLUB

• Played six seasons for Tri-State Elite

PERSONAL

• Undeclared major within arts & sciences
• Daughter of Robert and Janie Shaffer
• Mother, Janie, played volleyball at Duke and was a three-time ACC champion
• Janie Shaffer was recruited by then-Kentucky assistant coach and current Florida head coach Mary Wise, who Virginia head coach Shannon Wells served under as the associate head coach at UF