#17 Milan Stokes Season 2019
2019 SEC Career Tour
2018 Jesse Owens Athletic Award
2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2017 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2016 SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll
SENIOR SEASON (2019)
Saw action in 21 of 28 matches during her senior outing… Recorded 66 kills averaging 1.50 kills per set and 1.64 points per set and a hitting percentage .152… Had a season high of 16 kills in a five-set victory over against Mississippi State (Nov. 3)… Was the Vice President for the Student Athlete Advisory Committee… Was selected as two LSU representatives to attend the SEC Career Tour in December… Completed her undergraduate degree in three years as she graduate in 2019 with a degree in English… Completed her Masters in May of 2020.
JUNIOR SEASON (2018)
Saw action in 26 matches with eight starts … Came in third on the team with 167 kills on the year, averaging 1.78 kills per set … Registered a season-high 18 kills in five-set win over South Carolina (Nov. 18) … Had 10-plus kills in ten matches this season … Led the team in kills twice this year, both times were against Florida … Recorded five service aces on the year … Received the Jesse Owens award for the 2017-18 academic year.
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2017)
Played in 13 matches with two starts … Recorded a career-high 19 kills and a .417 hitting percentage in win over Alabama (Oct. 15) … Led the team in kills with 13 off the bench at Missouri … Had a total of 65 kills on the year, averaging 2.83 per set.
FRESHMAN SEASON (2016)
Played in 17 matches and 44 sets during her debut season … Totaled a career-high 10 digs in her second match against UNCG … Ended with a career high in both kills (8) and attempts (28) in five sets against Virginia … Totaled three kills against both Eastern Kentucky and Baylor … Ended with four kills and seven digs at home against Missouri.
HIGH SCHOOL
Was a four-year volleyball letter winner at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California … As a senior finished the year with over 430 kills, over five per set, including having a pair of matches with over 20 kills, leading the team as well in aces and digs per set as she was named All-Moore League First Team, Moore League Co-Player of the Year, Press-Telegram Dream Team Co-Player of the Year, All-CIF, an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American and one of Prepvolleyball.com’s Senior Aces… Was named to the All-Moore League First Team as a junior, while being an All-CIF First Team selection as well … Earned the first of her All-CIF First Team honors as a sophomore, while also being named to the All-Moore League for the first time … Was a member of the honor roll all four years of high school, while also being part of the creative writing club and investment club … Has been involved with the USA Volleyball A1 program since 2012, while participating in the 2013 All-American Junior Olympics.
PERSONAL
Full name is Milan Shania Stokes … Born Dec. 4 in Los Angeles, California … Daughter of Roger and Sonja Haley … Has three siblings in Lauren Bledsoe, Jonathan Stokes and Chase Haley … Lauren played volleyball for four years at the University of Florida … Majoring in English.