HONORS & AWARDS
- 2024 All-Big West Honorable Mention with partner Morgan Coolbaugh
- 2025 Big West Conference All-Academic Team
- 2024-25 Big West Commissioner's List - With Honors
2025: Played in all 35 regaulr and postseason games... Played across all five flights... Her overall record is 19-16... Played with eight different partners throughout the season but ended with Kate O'Steen... picked up a ranked win against #17 Hawai'i in the second day of the Big West Championships. Â
2024: Competed in 34 of 35
regular and postseason matches for the Aggies…Played across the second, third and fourth flights… Went 17-17 overall, with an 8-6 record on court 4… Spent the season was multiple partners including Kimi Waller, Sam Lazenby, and Morgan Coolbaugh… Kicked off the season with a 4 game win streak with partner Kimi Waller… Picked up a ranked win against #9 Long Beach State with partner Morgan Coolbaugh (03/24)... Selected to Big West Honorable Mention Team with partner Morgan Coolbaugh.
CABRILLO COLLEGE '23Â
Played both indoor and beach volleyball for the Seahawks...In her first year on the indoor team she accumulated 110 digs 160 kills and 99 assists...That season she won Coast Conference- Honorable Mention and selected for All Coast Conference Academic Team...In the same academic year while a member of the beach team she was selected to the Coast Conference 1st Team and helped lead her team to a 1st place league finish...That same season she won 10 straight matches in doubles... In her second year with the indoor team she posted 163 digs, 90 kills, and 138 assists solidifying a spot on 2nd Team Coast Conference... In her final beach volleyball season Heller went undefeated in regular season matches allowing the Seahawks to secure the #1 Seed in the Northern California...She finished out 3rd place in CCCAA State Pairs Tournament and MVP of the Coast Conference... Her time at Cabrillo ended with being honored with the Cabrillo College Presidential Academic Award, maintaining a 3.8+ GPA for all semesters while playing a sport.
PERSONAL
Parents are Chris and Amy... She has one sister named Sophia... Her father played college basketball at Chico State...Her and her partner made to it the semi-finals and went to three sets against the number 1 seed in the 2023 CCCAA Pairs Tournament Championship... Being able to maintain a 3.8 GPA in both junior college and high school is her proudest personal accomplishment and she hopes to maintain that at the university level... Her sports hero is Michael Jordan and her non-sports hero are her parents... Heller's career plans involve becoming a Communications Professor as well as a Head Coach of a Beach Volleyball program and potentially expanding her beach volleyball career after UCD... Her top 3 bucket list items are to go to Gulf Shores for the NCAA Beach Tournament, to go skydiving, and to learn Italian... The reason why she chose UC Davis is because to the college-town feel the moment that you step onto campus, and everything in the area revolves around the community which is something not a lot of other colleges have, as well as UC Davis prioritizing academics and allowing for students to take a lot of cool classes that could spark further interest within their major/minor.
