Alaina Bergsma | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Alaina Lynn Bergsma | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
Born | March 30, 1990 | ||||||||||||||
Hometown | Chandler, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.90 m) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 172 lb (78 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Spike | 119 in (301 cm) | ||||||||||||||
Block | 110 in (290 cm) | ||||||||||||||
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Position | Opposite Spiker | ||||||||||||||
Current club | Daejeon KGC | ||||||||||||||
Number | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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Alaina Bergsma (born March 30, 1990) is an American volleyball player. She is 6 feet 3 inches (1.90 m) tall and plays the position of hitter. She was on the United States women's national volleyball team.
During her college career, Bergsma won the 2009 All-West Coast Conference Team and Freshman of the Year, 2010 All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention, 2011 AVCA Third-Team All-American, 2011 All-Pac-12/Region First Team and during the 2012 season, the AVCA National Player of the Year, Pac-12 Player of the Year, AVCA First-Team All-American, All-Pac-12/Region First Team and the Capital One Third-Team Academic All-American.[1]
While at Oregon, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best collegiate female volleyball player in 2013.[2][3]
Bergsma won the 2014 Philippine Superliga Grand Prix Finals Most Valuable Player award[4] and the Superliga crown.[5]
She joined the Korean V-League club Daejeon KGC for the 2016/17 season.[6] and helped Daejeon to the silver medal in the Korean Cup.[7] She scored 55 points in the Korean League second semifinal match against IBK Altos, scoring 50 points in attack and 5 blocks, tying as the third major total points ever recorded.[8] Her team lost the semifinal 2-3 to IBK and settled with the bronze medal.[9] In May 2017 she renewed her contract with Daejeon.[10]
Bergsma went to University of Oregon and studied sports business.[11] In 2012, she won the Miss Oregon USA pageant and represented Oregon in Miss USA 2012, she did not place and was awarded Miss Photogenic.[12]