2022 Volleyball Roster

Craig Heiser
Kalei Engleman

4 Jada Gardner

  • Position Outside Hitter
  • Height 6-1 /
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Major Public Health Ed & Prom
  • Hometown Cibolo, Texas
  • Prev School Maryland
  • Experience 1L

Biography

Career Accolades
- 2x All-Sun Belt Second Team (2021-22)
- 2x Sun Belt All-Tournament Team (2021-22)
- 1x Preseason All-Sun Belt (2022)
- Bobcat Invitational All-Tournament Team (2021)
- Islanders Classic All-Tournament Team (2021)
- 2022 Texas State Dean's List (3.5+ GPA in a semester)

Super Graduate (2022)
Selected to the Sun Belt Conference's All-Tournament Team for the second consecutive campaign ... Second Team All-Sun Belt ... Preseason All-Sun Belt ... surpassed 1,000 career collegiate kills with a season-high 22 kills in a five-set win at Coastal Carolina on Thursday, Nov. 10 ... appeared in 86 sets and had 285 kills, the second most of any Bobcat ... had 125 digs and 31 blocks ... accounted for 319.5 of the Bobcats points in 2022

Graduate (2021)
Made an immediate impact in her first season wearing the Texas State Maroon and Gold as the Cibolo, Texas native earned All-Sun Belt Second Team honors for her on-the-court productivity … Sun Belt Conference All-Tournament selection … totaled 331 kills (3.05/set) in 102 sets played throughout 31 games in her first season at Texas State … was one of two student-athletes in the program to record 300-or-more kills throughout the 2021 season … her 3.05 kills per set average ranked 10th among Sun Belt student-athletes … her 3.46 points per set clip was the ninth-highest average in the Sun Belt Conference … her 353 total points scored throughout the 2021 season were the eighth most in the conference … in conference-only action, her 3.35 kills per set mark was the seventh highest in the league … during the same stretch of the Bobcats’ 2021 season, her 3.80 points per set clip was the sixth highest in the Sun Belt … turned in the team’s high for kills in a single match with 27 against Tarleton State (Sept. 17) … made a huge slap in her Sun Belt debut with a 21-kill, 11-dig performance in the Bobcats’ four-set win at Troy (Sept. 24) … recorded 20 kills in a four-set victory over App State (Oct. 23) … was the lone Texas State volleyball student-athlete to have 20-or-more kills in a single match throughout the 2021 season and did so on three separate occasions … had back-to-back double-digit kill performances (15 and 10) in the semifinals (Coastal Carolina, Nov. 20) and finals (South Alabama, Nov. 21) of the Sun Belt’s postseason conference tournament … swung a season-best .655 percent (21-2-29) at Troy (Sept. 24) … recorded a 12-kill, 13-dig double-double at Arkansas State (Oct. 16) … finished a kill shy of a double-double in a three-set win against Rhode Island (Sept.4) after having nine kills and a season-high 16 dig … had a seven-kill, six-dig, five-block outing at South Alabama (Sept. 25) … recorded 14 kills in a four-set match against Ohio State (Sept. 4) 

Prior to Texas State
Spent four seasons at Maryland ... named 2019 Wake Forest/UNCG Tournament MVP after posting 3.45 kills per set (.326), 18 digs, and seven blocks and was listed on the 2019 Big Ten Foreign Tour-Japan Roster ... also a 2018-19 Academic All-Big Ten honoree ... in her sophomore season (2018) she appeared in the first 12 matches before suffering a season-ending injury ... played in all 32 matches in 2019 with 27 starts as a right side hitter and totaled 166 kills and 87 total blocks ... overall in her career at Maryland she totaled 473 kills (1.47 per set), a .193 hitting percentage, 14 aces, and 223 total blocks (0.69 per set)

High School
Set the school record with 42 kills in a match and was a three-time first-team all-district selection ... PrepVolleyball’s No. 68 player in the Class of 2017 and led her club team (Alamo Volleyball Association) to a pair of third place finishes at the AAU 16 Premier and 2016 GJNC 17 National Tournament and was selected to both all-tournament teams ... academic all-district section from 2013-2016 and academic all-state selection ... was a member of the National Honor Society ... also competed in track & field and participated in the state track meet in the high jump
 
Personal
Daughter of Stephanie and Edgar Gardner ... mom, Stephanie, competed as a track and field student-athlete at the University of Minnesota ... the niece of two-time NBA Champion, Shane Battier

Statistics

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2022

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2021Graduate Student

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    4
  • 4

    2022Graduate Student

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    4