Another season of Tennessee volleyball has come to an end. After the truncated 2020 season, getting a year of volleyball in a mostly back to normal fashion was a gift. The fact that it seems it was able to be done with no evidence of major health ramifications made it even better. Making it to the NCAA Tournament Second Round was icing on the cake! For one last time this year, let’s look back at some of the statistical accomplishments of this team.

(I’m sure there are stats out there that I’ve missed. But I’ve delayed this piece long enough due to finding so many, so in the interest of getting this out I’ve stopped with these!)

POLLS

AVCA	RPI	Pablo	RichKern.com	VolleyTalk
#27	#28	#25	#28	#25

KILLS

SEASON

Tennessee finished the season 11th in the nation with 14.15 kills per set.

Breana Runnels was 87th in the nation with 3.75 kills per set.

Breana Runnels’ 394 kills is the 11th most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era. Her 3.75 per set is the 14th best.

Morgahn Fingall’s 338 kills is the 30th most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era. Her 3.22 per set is the 27th best.

MATCH

Breana Runnels’ 26 kills vs Missouri was the 46th most by a Lady Vol in a single match all-time, and the 7th most by an SEC player this season.

CAREER

Lily Felts put down her 1,000th kill in the last match of the season, making her just the 22nd Lady Vol all-time to reach that milestone.

ATTACKS

SEASON

Breana Runnels’ 1,053 attacks is the 9th most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era. Her 10.03 per set is the 8th best.

Morgahn Fingall’s 861 attacks is the 27th most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era. Her 8.20 per set is the 28th best.

Lily Felts’ 818 attacks is the 31st most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era.

CAREER

Lily Felts’ 2,968 career attacks is the 16th most by a Lady Vol all-time. Her 7.57 career attacks per set is the 17th most.

HITTING PERCENTAGE

SEASON

Tennessee finished the season 17th in the nation with a .271 hitting percentage.

Ava Bell’s .397 hitting percentage is the third best by a Lady Vol all-time, behind only Beverly Robinson in 1983, and Bell herself in 2019.

Natalie Hayward’s .394 is the fourth best by a Lady Vol all-time.

Danielle Mahaffey’s .380 is the 6th best by a Lady Vol all-time.

Danielle Mahaffey was 35th in the nation in hitting percentage.

Nicole Shanahan’s .301 is the 28th best by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era.

CAREER

Ava Bell finished her career with a .381 hitting percentage, just 5/1000ths off the SEC all-time top ten list.

Ava Bell’s .381 hitting percentage is #1 all-time at Tennessee.

Natalie Hayward’s .370 hitting percentage is #2 all-time at Tennessee.

Danielle Mahaffey’s .271 hitting percentage is #18 all-time at Tennessee.

ASSISTS

SEASON

Tennessee finished the season 17th in the nation with 12.95 assists per set.

Natalie Hayward was 31st in the nation with 10.66 assists per set.

Natalie Hayward’s 1,162 assists is the 17th most by a Lady Vol all-time. Her 10.66 assists per set is the 18th most.

CAREER

Natalie Hayward’s 1,877 assists is #10 all-time at Tennessee. Her 10.20 assists per set is #6 all-time at Tennessee.

ACES

CAREER

Lily Felts’ 66 aces is #10 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee.

Natalie Hayward’s 34 aces is #29 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee.

DIGS

SEASON

Madison Bryant’s 370 digs is the 19th most by a Lady Vol all-time. Her 3.43 digs per set is the 23rd most by a Lady Vol all-time.

CAREER

Lily Felts’ 938 digs is #20 all-time at Tennessee.

Madison Bryant’s 3.47 digs per set is #4 all-time at Tennessee.

Natalie Hayward’s 2.63 digs per set is #20 all-time at Tennessee.

BLOCKS

SEASON

Tennessee finished the season 2nd in the nation with 3.01 blocks per set.

Tennessee led the conference for just the second time since 1989 (when the SEC data begins). It’s the first time in 14 years a league team has had 3.00 blocks per set or better.

Danielle Mahaffey was 9th in the nation with 1.38 blocks per set.

Ava Bell was 38th in the nation with 14 blocks per set.

Danielle Mahaffey’s 139 blocks is the 13th most by a Lady Vol all-time. Her 1.38 blocks per set is the 6th best.

Ava Bell’s 1.24 blocks per set is the 12th best by a Lady Vol all-time.

Danielle Mahaffey’s 23 solo blocks is the 3rd most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era.

Ava Bell’s 118 is the 20th most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era.

Morgahn Fingall’s 100 is the 29th most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era.

MATCH

Danielle Mahaffey’s 12 blocks vs Arkansas tied for the most blocks by a player in the SEC this year. She was 1 block away from the SEC four-set single-match top ten list and tied for the 7th most blocks against an SEC opponent in a four-set match.

Tennessee had three of the top four most blocks by an SEC team this season, including the top spot with 21 vs Arkansas.

Out of all matches played in Division 1 this year, Tennessee had two of the top 25 most blocks by a team in the nation this year: 11th most with 21 vs Arkansas. 21st most with 20 vs Georgia.

CAREER

Danielle Mahaffey’s 329 blocks is #17 all-time at Tennessee. Her 0.90 blocks per set is #15 all-time at Tennessee

Ava Bell’s 1.08 blocks per set is #5 all-time at Tennessee.

POINTS

SEASON

Breana Runnels’ 435.5 is the 19th most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era. Her 4.15 per set is the 15th best.

Morgahn Fingall’s 407.0 is the 25th most by a Lady Vol in the rally-scoring era. Her 3.88 per set is the 24th best.

CAREER

Lily Felts’ 1157.0 points is #10 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee. Her 2.95 points per set is #18.

Danielle Mahaffey’s 904.5 points is #16 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee. Her 2.48 points per set is #26.

Morgahn Fingall’s 810.5 points is #22 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee. Her 3.26 points per set is #13.

Ava Bell’s 2.36 points per set is #33 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee.

OTHER STATS

PLAYER

Lily Felts’s 392 career sets played is #14 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee.

Danielle Mahaffey’s 365 career sets played is #21 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee.

Giana Pellizzon’s 271 career sets played is #38 in the rally-scoring era at Tennessee.

Lily Felts is one of just 10 Lady Vols since 2001 who were here for four seasons and played in 90% or more of the team’s sets during their career. She played in 392 of the team’s 417 sets (94.00%).

Danielle Mahaffey just missed the 90% mark. She played in 365 of the team’s 417 sets (87.53%) played during her career.

Natalie Hayward played in 100% of UT’s sets during her two year career in Knoxville.

(NOTE: I just added a new section to the Stats page where you can see that percentage tracked.)

Lily Felts has the 8th most double-doubles by a Lady Vol in rally-scoring era matches, and the 4th most in that time by a non-setter.

Natalie Hayward has the 10th most double-doubles by a Lady Vol in rally-scoring era matches, and the 5th most in that time by a setter.

TEAM

Tennessee had the 37th highest home attendance in the nation with a total of 14,332. Average individual game attendance was 955.

Tennessee reached 20 wins for the 24th time in program history.

Tennessee had 10 or fewer losses for the 17th time in program history.

With 14, Tennessee had the most sweep wins in a decade and the 4th most since 1990.