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14 Kia Kriener

  • Position Rightside Hitter
  • Height 6-2
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Spirit Lake
  • Hometown Okoboji, Iowa

Biography

2023: All-NSIC First Team … CSC Academic All-District … appeared in all 27 games and 101 sets for the Vikings … averaged 4.03 points, 3.76 kills, 1.22 digs, and .44 blocks per set … totaled 407.0 points, 380 kills, 123 digs, and 44 blocks … 12 kills and seven blocks against Colorado Christian (9/1) … season-high 21 kills against Southwest Minnesota State (10/3) … season-high 16 digs while adding 15 kills against Sioux Falls (10/31) … 18 kills and 10 digs against Minnesota-Crookston (11/4) … NSIC Fall Academic Team of Excellence.

2022: Appeared in 26 matches and 95 sets during her senior year… averaged 2.57 kills, .71 blocks and 2.09 digs per set… recorded a career-high 16 kills against Winona State (10/29).. Saw a career-high six aces against Bemidji State (10/01)... achieved a career-high 18 digs against Eastern New Mexico (8/27)... tallied 244 kills, 199 digs, 67 blocks and seven assists on the year… Named to the NSIC Fall Academic Team of Excellence.

2021: Appeared in 11 matches and played in 25 sets during her junior year … averaged 1.56 kills and 0.40 digs per set … recorded a career-high 12 kills and four digs against Minnesota Crookston (11/05)  … tallied 39 kills, 14 digs and nine total blocks on the year ...  Named to the NSIC Fall Academic Team of Excellence.

2020: Named to the NSIC Fall Academic Team of Excellence … fall season was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2019 : Played in 11 sets ... recorded a season-high three kills against Upper Iowa (10/11) ... recorded a season-high two blocks against Oklahoma Baptist (9/6).

High School: A 2019 graduate of Spirit Lake High School in Okoboji, Iowa ... earned first team All-Conference honors senior year ... earned Academic All-State her senior year ...compiled 340 kills her senior year which was second on the team and tallied 63 aces ... defensively she tallied 315 digs which was second on the team and had 39 blocks her senior year.  

Personal: Born on 08/07/2001 in Waterloo, Iowa to Rich and Nancy Kriener ... majoring in biology and spanish ... After graduation Kriener plans to attend a physician assistant school and hopes to work as an emergency room physicians assistant.

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Historical Player Information

  • 14

    2019Freshman

    Outside/Rightside Hitter
    6'2"
    14
  • 14

    2020Sophomore

    Outside/Rightside Hitter
    6'2"
    14
  • 14

    2021Junior

    Rightside Hitter
    6'2"
    14
  • 14

    2022Senior

    Rightside Hitter
    6'2"
    14
  • 14

    2023Graduate Student

    Rightside Hitter
    6'2"
    14