#3 Ella Larkin Season 2023
2022 AVCA South All-Region Selection
2022 SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 24)
2022 Tulane Invitational All-Tournament Team
2021 SEC All-Freshman Team
2021 LSWA All-Louisiana Honorable Mention
2021 SEC Freshman of the Week (Oct. 11, Oct. 25)
2021-2022 SEC First Year Honor Roll
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2022)
Named to AVCA South All-Region Team…appeared in all 30 matches and all 119 sets at the libero position…finished the season leading the SEC with 4.34 digs per set and 516 total digs…her 516 total digs is in a three-way tie at No. 5 in the program’s single season record book with Elena Martinez (2008) and Luciana Reis (1993)…recorded eight matches with 20 or more digs and four matches with 30 or more digs including a career-high 34 digs against Rice (Aug. 27)…also totaled 15 aces on the year and set a new career-high with six aces at No. 15 Florida (Oct. 8)…was selected SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 24 after averaging 6.00 digs per set in two matches against Oregon State (Sept. 16) and Tulane (Sept. 17) and was listed on the Tulane Invitational All-Tournament Team.
FRESHMAN SEASON (2021)
Became the fourth LSU Tiger in three seasons to be named to the SEC All-Freshman Team after taking over the setter position in the fourth match of the season…also tabbed 2021 LSWA All-Louisiana Honorable Mention…played in all 27 matches and made 23 starts in 108 sets played…earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors twice; first after leading the Tigers to a .268 hitting percentage, registering 9.00 assists per set, and logged 3.50 digs on average and nine kills on 14 errorless swings (.643) in a split weekend against T-No. 20 Florida…her second weekly award came after a three-match week where she averaged 10.00 assists per set after turning in 45 assists at South Carolina followed by 47 and 38 assists in a split against No. 20 Tennessee…ended the season with 8.35 assists per set (No. 7 in the SEC) and 2.79 digs in 108 sets played…had a career match at Mississippi State (Oct. 2) where she recorded 52 assists, six kills with a .545 hitting percentage, and added 16 digs to record one of her 15 double-doubles on the year…finished the year with five consecutive double-doubles; last LSU Tiger with five consecutive double-doubles prior to Larkin was Malorie Pardo in 2013…had two matches with 50 or more kills (second was 51 assists at Georgia on Nov. 27).
HIGH SCHOOL
A two-sport star at Bishop Carroll Catholic High School, also playing basketball along with volleyball … Was an impact player was a four-year impact player and was named to the First-Team All-City Team and Second-Team All-State team as a freshman in 2017 … Led Bishop Carroll to Kansas Sub-State Championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and a third-place finish in 2020 … Was also named to the Basketball All-State team in 2017, leading her team to a runner-up finish at state.
PERSONAL
Daughter of Jennifer and Scott Larkin … Has two older brothers, Austin and Luke, and two younger sisters, Ally and Logan … Father was a volleyball player at BYU and went on to play professionally.