#23 Michele Williams Season 2024
2011 All-SEC Preseason Team
2011 All-Louisiana Second Team
2011 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2011 WKU All-Tournament Team
2011 Hotel Encanto Classic All-Tournament Team
2010 AVCA All-South Region Honorable Mention
2010 All-SEC Second Team
2010 All-SEC Preseason Team
2010 SEC Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 13)
2010 All-Louisiana First Team
2010 Tiger Classic All-Tournament Team & Tournament MVP
2010 TCU Molten Invitational All-Tournament Team
2010 Texas A&M Invitational All-Tournament Team & Tournament MVP
2009 All-Louisiana Second Team
2009 SEC Defensive Player of the Week (11/16)
2009 Shamrock Invitational Tournament MVP (08/30)
2009 Shamrock Invitational All-Tournament Team (08/20)
2009 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2008 SEC All-Freshman Team
2008 SEC Freshman of the Week (11/10)
SENIOR SEASON (2011)
One of 18 players in program history to eclipse 1,000 career kills … Capped her career with 1,095 kills and 369 total blocks … Tallied 28 appearances, including 26 starts … Played in 107 of LSU’s 114 sets … Ripped 326 kills at a 3.05 per set average to rank third on the team … Her 98 total blocks at a 0.92 per set clip was second on the team … Racked up 10 or more kills in a team-leading 20 times over her 28 outings … Registered a .300 hitting percentage or better on 11 occasions … Teamed with fellow middle blocker Desiree Elliott for 43.8 percent of LSU’s kills … Secured All-Louisiana Second-Team status …
Equaled a career-high .769 hitting percentage with 10 kills on 13 swings against Louisiana-Lafayette (Aug. 26) … Added nine kills and eight blocks versus Miami (Aug. 27) … Picked up Hotel Encanto Classic (Sept. 2-3) and WKU Tournament honors (Sept. 9-10) … Powered home 15 kills and added five at New Mexico State (Sept. 3) … Blasted 15 kills and matched a career-best nine blocks at Western Kentucky (Sept. 10) … Popped 11 kills and tacked on seven blocks at Alabama (Sept. 18) … Hammered 18 kills, her second highest output of the season, at South Carolina (Oct. 7) … Finished season on a strong note with 10 or more kills in 11 of her last 13 matches (Oct. 14-Nov. 26) …. Blasted 16 kills on a .560 hitting percentage against Ole Miss (Oct. 23) … Surpassed the 1,000-kill mark with a 16-spike performance at Mississippi State (Oct. 30) … Dropped in a season’s best 19 kills and seven blocks at Georgia (Nov. 6) … Wiped away three match points in the fifth set versus the Bulldogs with a pair of kills at 14-10 and 16-15 along with a block at 14-11 … Smashed 15 kills and garnered five blocks against South Carolina (Nov. 13) … Cranked 11 kills, four blocks and three digs versus Arkansas (Nov. 26) to enable LSU to clinch its seventh consecutive SEC Western Division title.
JUNIOR SEASON (2010)
One of four players to see action in all 107 sets over LSU’s 30 matches en route to All-Louisiana First-Team, All-SEC Second Team and AVCA All-South Region Honorable Mention status … Notched 23 starts, including the team’s first 19 matches of the season (Aug. 27-Oct. 15) … Ripped 334 kills at a 3.12 per set average to rank second on the team in both categories … Her 3.12 kills per frame mark also are eighth in the SEC … Connected for a team-best .303 hitting percentage … Reeled off over a .300 clip during 17 of 30 matches, including 10 times during SEC action … Collected double digit kills on 18 occasions, second-highest on the squad … 13 of her 18 double figure spike efforts were versus SEC opponents … LSU’s offense posted 14.35 kills per set on a .260 team hitting percentage which not only ranked among the SEC’s best, but the NCAA’s Top 25 in both categories … Registered 90 blocks, tied for second-most on the team … One of four players to rip 20 aces … Started season by earning All-Tournament honors at all three of LSU’s non-conference tournaments … Cranked 13 kills with a season-high eight blocks in season opener against Pacific (Aug. 27) … Slapped 12 kills on 19 swings without an error for a .632 hitting ratio at Texas A&M (Aug. 28) to claim Tournament MVP honors … Powered home 16 kills and equaled a season-best eight blocks at TCU (Sept. 3) … Belted a career-high 20 kills on a .533 hitting clip against Rice (Sept. 11) … Chipped in 16 kills during five-set triumph versus New Mexico State (Sept. 11) to conclude Tiger Classic and secure Tournament MVP accolades … Claimed first career SEC Offensive Player of the Week award (Sept. 13) … Opened run of five straight double digit kill performances (Sept. 24-Oct. 8) with a 13-spike effort on a .435 hitting percentage at Alabama (Sept. 24) … Crushed 14 kills at No. 2 Florida (Oct. 1) … Popped 10 kills on 13 swings without an error for a career-best .769 hitting clip at South Carolina (Oct. 3) … Added 14 kills and six blocks against Kentucky (Oct. 8) … Blasted 17 kills, her second highest output of the season, at Georgia (Oct. 22) in her first bench appearance … Hammered home 15 kills at No. 21 Tennessee (Nov. 12) … Dropped in 12 kills during regular season home finale against No. 1 Florida (Nov. 21) … Slammed 11 kills on 14 swings en route to a .643 hitting ratio at Arkansas (Nov. 24) … Tacked on eight kills versus No. 22 Tulsa (Dec. 3) at NCAA Tournament.
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2009)
Appeared in 31 of 32 matches and totaled 30 starts … Powered home 244 kills, third on the team, en route to nine double-digit kill performances … Second on the squad with 124 blocks highlighted by a team-best 23 solo stuffs … Reached five or more blocks in 14 matches … Her 1.15 per set average was fifth in the SEC … Cranked 30 aces, including seven multi-ace efforts … Her 0.28 aces per set ranked fourth in the SEC … Strung together 37 kills and 19 blocks to earn Shamrock Invitational Tournament MVP (Aug. 28-30) … Smacked 14 kills on a .387 hitting percentage to go along with six blocks and three aces against No. 5 Stanford (Aug. 28) … Ripped 12 kills and added a career-high nine blocks against Denver (Aug. 29) … Notched 11 kills and four digs against Tennessee (Sept. 18) … Contributed six kills and seven blocks at Georgia (Sept. 27) … Tallied six kills, five aces and four blocks at Mississippi State (Oct. 4) … Knocked 11 kills on a .400 hitting percentage against No. 6 Florida (Oct. 11) … Belted seven or more kills in eight of her last 10 outings (Nov. 1-Dec. 5) … Earned SEC Defensive Player of the Week (Nov. 16) after combining for 12 blocks in matches at Florida (Nov. 13) and South Carolina (Nov. 15) … Popped 13 kills on a .435 clip against Mississippi State (Nov. 20) … Recorded 10 kills and seven blocks against Texas A&M (Dec. 5).
FRESHMAN SEASON (2008)
Unanimous selection to the SEC All-Freshman Team after moving from outside hitter to middle blocker following Lauren DeGirolamo’s season-ending injury against Ole Miss (Oct. 3) … One of four Tigers to average over two kills per set … Her .302 attack percentage ranked 10th in league matches … Second on the team with 57 blocks in addition to 26 service aces … Knocked multiple aces nine times, including a stretch of four straight matches (Oct. 19-31) … Her 0.33 aces per set ranked sixth in the SEC … Fired in six aces against Nicholls State (Sept. 5) … Racked up 10 double-digit kill performances, including a stretch of seven of eight matches (Oct. 19-Nov. 14) … Attacked at a .375 clip or higher in seven of her last nine matches … Notched 12 kills and career-best eight blocks against South Carolina (Oct. 26) falling just shy of her first career double-double … Took home SEC Freshman of the Week honors after combining for 23 kills on 40 swings with only two attack errors against Alabama (Nov. 7) and Mississippi State (Nov. 9) … Powered home a career-best 16 kills against Auburn (Nov. 14) … Popped 11 kills on a .500 hitting percentage at No. 14 UCLA (Dec. 5) in NCAA Tournament.
HIGH SCHOOL
Earned four letters in volleyball at Magnolia High School … Led the Bulldogs to the Texas 5A Region II semifinals in 2006 and 2007 … Selected to Volleyball Magazine’s 2008 Fab50 … A USA Volleyball Youth National Team A1 selection in 2006 … Was PrepVolleyball.com’s No. 34 recruit in Senior Aces … Named a two-time PrepVolleyball.com high school All-American and earned 2006 LoneStarVolleyball.com first team All-Texas honors … Selected first-team Texas Coaches Association All-State in 2006 and 2007 … Member of the 2007 Texas 5-A All-Star team … Two-time Montgomery County and District Most Valuable Player and the 2004 county Newcomer of the Year … Named 2007 first team All-Greater Houston … Four-time all-county and all-district selection … Was a three-time academic all-district selection … Earned all-tournament honors at the Junior Olympics in 2006 and 2007.
PERSONAL
Full name is Michele Nicole Williams … Daughter of Rusty and Mary (DeVillier) Williams … Has two sisters – Alison (25), Jamie (23) … Cousin, Jacee Blades, is a member of the LSU softball team … Born on Feb. 16, 1990 … Graduated May 2012 with a degree in elementary education.
CAREER HIGHS
Hitting Pct. (min. 10 kills): .769, two times, last Louisiana-Lafayette (08/26/11)
Kills: 20, Rice (09/11/10)
Attempts: 44, at No. 16 Kentucky (11/18/11)
Assists: 2, six times, last Auburn (10/16/11)
Digs: 7, No. 22 Tennessee (10/10/10)
Service Aces: 6, vs. Nicholls State (09/05/08)
Total Blocks: 9, two times, last at Western Kentucky (09/10/11)