UMBC

Bio

	#4 - Ali Goc
	Class: Jr. Height/Weight: 5-9     Hometown: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Position: OH     High School: R.S. McLaughlin Collegiate

2011: Played in each of the Retrievers' 28 matches, seeing action in all but one set... Led UMBC and ranked fifth in the America East with 341 digs after moving from outside hitter to defensive specialist... Served 26 aces on the year to tie for the team lead with Allie Spaay... Set a career-high with 23 digs against Fairleigh Dickinson in the Maddie Bingaman Tournament on Sept. 10... Topped the 20 dig mark three times during the year... Led the Retrievers with 19 digs during UMBC's win over Providence in the regular season finale to clinch a spot in the postseason... Named to the America East Honor Roll.

2010: Named to the America East All-Rookie Team after ranking second on the team with 214 kills and 31 service aces and was third on the squad with 282 digs… Earned six double-doubles, including 11 kills and 14 digs against Binghamton in the America East Semifinals… Recorded a season-high 17 kills against Brown on Sept. 11 and a season-high 21 digs at Albany on Oct. 31… Served a season-high four aces against Coppin State and New Hampshire… Recognized on the America East Honor Roll.

Background: Named the 2010 winner of the Evelyn Holick Award, which is Ontario’s most prestigious honor, by the Ontario Volleyball Association… Won five consecutive Canada Indoor Volleyball National Championships from 2005-09 in addition to six straight Indoor Volleyball Ontario Championships from 2005-10 with Durham Attack… One of only two high schoolers on Team Ontario which won silver at the 2009 Canada Summer Games… Named MVP of Canada of her division 2005-08 and an All-Star in Ontario from 2005-10… Recipient of the 2008 Lisa Ford Memorial Award… Led her high school, McLaughlin Collegiate to four straight Lake Ontario Secondary School Athletics (LOSSA) crowns from 2006-10… Named the 2010 LOSSA Most Valuable Player… Also lettered in badminton and qualified for provincials after finishing second in her region.

Personal: Daughter of Zibby and Elizabeth Goc… Has an older brother, Peter… Majoring in psychology and hopes to become a child counselor or teacher… Born June 29, 1992.

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