Erin Kirby
Hometown: Evanston, WY
Sport: Volleyball and Track
Years:2011-2015
An extremely talented two-sport athlete, Erin Kirby earned honors and set records in both Volleyball and Track at UW. As a middle blocker in Volleyball, she earned all-Mountain West Conference honors four times, and was named Player of the Week four times during her career. She holds the UW career records for blocks and sets-played and is second in hitting percentage. She had a single-season record-setting 225 blocks in 2013, leading the Mountain West Conference and second in the nation. She also earned Academic All-Conference honors four times and was one of thirty NCAA Division I women student-athlete candidates for the Senior Class Award in college volleyball. In Track, she was the Mountain West 400 meter hurdles champion as a freshman. Over her career, she earned all-Conference honors in the Indoor 4×400 relay, the Outdoor 400 meter hurdles (twice), the Indoor 400 meter hurdles, and the Outdoor 4×400 meter relay (twice). She holds nine top-ten marks in the UW record books. Following graduation, she played one year of professional volleyball in Sweden.