2022 Volleyball Roster
Fischer, Sophie
Jersey Number 2
Sophie Fischer
- Position:
- Middle Blocker
- Height:
- 6-5
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Nation Ford HS
- Hometown:
- Fort Mill, S.C.
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Bio
Career Honors & Awards
• 2023 AVCA Second Team All-America
• 2023 Volleyball Mag Second Team All-America
• 2023 SEC Player of the Year
• 2023 All-SEC Team
• 2023 AVCA Southeast All-Region Team
• 2022 AVCA All-America Honorable Mention
• 2022 AVCA Southeast All-Region Team
• 2022 All-SEC Team
• SEC Player of the Week - Aug. 29, 2022, Oct. 24, 2022
• SEC Defensive Player of the Week - Oct. 3, 2022, Oct. 31, 2022
• 2023 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll
2024
Named Preseason All-SEC.
Summer 2024
Competed with the U.S. Women’s National Team competing at the NORCECA Pan American Cup Final Six, taking the silver medal in Santo Domingo… She totaled nine points in the gold medal match.
2023
Appointed to the AVCA All-America Second Team… Named Second Team All-America by Volleyball Magazine… Named 2023 SEC Player of the Year, the second in Georgia’s history… Named 2023 All-SEC… Earned SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week (9/18)… Played in all 30 matches and 110 sets… Topped the 20-kill mark including two 22-kill matches for career bests: vs. #8 Arkansas (11/1), vs. South Carolina (11/17)… Led the team with 27 double-digit kill matches… Recorded a team-best seven matches with three or more aces… Registered a career-best four aces twice: vs. Samford (9/8), at Texas A&M (11/22)… Put up five-plus blocks 15 times… Season-high 10 blocks came against Missouri (11/25)… Concluded the regular season as the league’s top scorer and the nation’s highest-scoring middle, registering 5.31 points per set (584 total points)… Finished top 10 in the SEC in kills per set (third, 4.16 kills/set), service aces per set (third, 0.41 aces/set), blocks per set (second, 1.34 blocks/set), and hitting percentage (ninth, .328 average)… Nationally, ranked 11th in points per set, 21st in blocking, and 29th in kills… In conference-only matches, was the league leader in points per set (5.36) and registered 4.17 kills per set, 0.43 aces per set, 1.41 blocks per set, and hit .320 in conference play… Member of SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll… Named Preseason All-SEC.
Summer 2023
Was selected to join the USA Volleyball Women's Collegiate National Team and trained in Anaheim, California in June, alongside the U.S. Women's National Team as it prepared for the final preliminary round of Volleyball Nations League.
2022
Received an Honorable Mention from the AVCA All-America committee… Named AVCA Southeast All-Region Team… Named All-SEC… Four-time SEC Player of the Week… Concluded the season as the NCAA Division I statistical runner-up with 183 total blocks… Played in 118 sets in 31 matches, starting all but one… Set a new rally scoring era record and finished third at Georgia in single-season total blocks with 183… 170 block assists finished second at Georgia… Led the SEC with 1.55 blocks per set and 183 total blocks… Named Harvard/Northeastern Challenge MVP… 15 blocks against South Carolina (9/28) set a new Georgia single-match record… Also put down 10 kills in the match against the Gamecocks for her lone double-double of the season… Had double-digit blocks in four matches including 11 in the season-opening sweep against Troy (8/26)… Registered double-digit kills in 18 matches including three career-high performances of 18 kills at Northeastern (9/9), at Auburn (10/8), and vs. Alabama (10/22)… Named SEC Defensive Player of the Week Oct. 3 after putting up 30 blocks in three matches… Also had a total of 40 kills that week… Registered eight kills and nine blocks in the sweep of No. 11 Florida (10/19)… Strung together six-straight matches of double-digit kills and eight matches of five or more blocks… In the same match she had a record 15 blocks, she also had a career-best four digs… Had a pair of two-ace matches: Texas Tech (9/3), at Mississippi State (9/21)… Had 12 kills with a .455 hitting percentage and eight blocks against No. 8 Towson (12/1) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament… Recorded seven kills against No. 1 Texas (12/2) in the second round.
2021 (Kentucky)
Appeared in 10 matches… Picked nine kills on the season… Was on roster for Kentucky's fifth-straight SEC Championship in 2021.
2020 (Kentucky)
Won a National Championship with the Wildcats, the program's first… Appeared in eight matches, playing 19 sets and recording 28 kills with a .318 hitting clip on the outside… Contributed seven blocks.
High School/Club
Earned Under Armour and PrepVolleyball All-America honors prior to signing with Kentucky… Nation Ford High School won back-to-back South Carolina state championships with Fischer on the outside in 2018 and 2019, the same years she was named the South Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year… She was the No. 15 recruit in the class of 2020… Fischer played club for Adam Speight and the Carolina Rouge.
Personal
Daughter of Stacey and Tom Fischer… Stacey played basketball at Akron and Tom played football at Miami (Ohio)… Has four siblings: Robert, Gretchen, Reece, and Brock… Born Sept. 12, 2001… Graduated in May 2024 with degree in Sociology.
• 2023 AVCA Second Team All-America
• 2023 Volleyball Mag Second Team All-America
• 2023 SEC Player of the Year
• 2023 All-SEC Team
• 2023 AVCA Southeast All-Region Team
• 2022 AVCA All-America Honorable Mention
• 2022 AVCA Southeast All-Region Team
• 2022 All-SEC Team
• SEC Player of the Week - Aug. 29, 2022, Oct. 24, 2022
• SEC Defensive Player of the Week - Oct. 3, 2022, Oct. 31, 2022
• 2023 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll
2024
Named Preseason All-SEC.
Summer 2024
Competed with the U.S. Women’s National Team competing at the NORCECA Pan American Cup Final Six, taking the silver medal in Santo Domingo… She totaled nine points in the gold medal match.
2023
Appointed to the AVCA All-America Second Team… Named Second Team All-America by Volleyball Magazine… Named 2023 SEC Player of the Year, the second in Georgia’s history… Named 2023 All-SEC… Earned SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week (9/18)… Played in all 30 matches and 110 sets… Topped the 20-kill mark including two 22-kill matches for career bests: vs. #8 Arkansas (11/1), vs. South Carolina (11/17)… Led the team with 27 double-digit kill matches… Recorded a team-best seven matches with three or more aces… Registered a career-best four aces twice: vs. Samford (9/8), at Texas A&M (11/22)… Put up five-plus blocks 15 times… Season-high 10 blocks came against Missouri (11/25)… Concluded the regular season as the league’s top scorer and the nation’s highest-scoring middle, registering 5.31 points per set (584 total points)… Finished top 10 in the SEC in kills per set (third, 4.16 kills/set), service aces per set (third, 0.41 aces/set), blocks per set (second, 1.34 blocks/set), and hitting percentage (ninth, .328 average)… Nationally, ranked 11th in points per set, 21st in blocking, and 29th in kills… In conference-only matches, was the league leader in points per set (5.36) and registered 4.17 kills per set, 0.43 aces per set, 1.41 blocks per set, and hit .320 in conference play… Member of SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll… Named Preseason All-SEC.
Summer 2023
Was selected to join the USA Volleyball Women's Collegiate National Team and trained in Anaheim, California in June, alongside the U.S. Women's National Team as it prepared for the final preliminary round of Volleyball Nations League.
2022
Received an Honorable Mention from the AVCA All-America committee… Named AVCA Southeast All-Region Team… Named All-SEC… Four-time SEC Player of the Week… Concluded the season as the NCAA Division I statistical runner-up with 183 total blocks… Played in 118 sets in 31 matches, starting all but one… Set a new rally scoring era record and finished third at Georgia in single-season total blocks with 183… 170 block assists finished second at Georgia… Led the SEC with 1.55 blocks per set and 183 total blocks… Named Harvard/Northeastern Challenge MVP… 15 blocks against South Carolina (9/28) set a new Georgia single-match record… Also put down 10 kills in the match against the Gamecocks for her lone double-double of the season… Had double-digit blocks in four matches including 11 in the season-opening sweep against Troy (8/26)… Registered double-digit kills in 18 matches including three career-high performances of 18 kills at Northeastern (9/9), at Auburn (10/8), and vs. Alabama (10/22)… Named SEC Defensive Player of the Week Oct. 3 after putting up 30 blocks in three matches… Also had a total of 40 kills that week… Registered eight kills and nine blocks in the sweep of No. 11 Florida (10/19)… Strung together six-straight matches of double-digit kills and eight matches of five or more blocks… In the same match she had a record 15 blocks, she also had a career-best four digs… Had a pair of two-ace matches: Texas Tech (9/3), at Mississippi State (9/21)… Had 12 kills with a .455 hitting percentage and eight blocks against No. 8 Towson (12/1) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament… Recorded seven kills against No. 1 Texas (12/2) in the second round.
2021 (Kentucky)
Appeared in 10 matches… Picked nine kills on the season… Was on roster for Kentucky's fifth-straight SEC Championship in 2021.
2020 (Kentucky)
Won a National Championship with the Wildcats, the program's first… Appeared in eight matches, playing 19 sets and recording 28 kills with a .318 hitting clip on the outside… Contributed seven blocks.
High School/Club
Earned Under Armour and PrepVolleyball All-America honors prior to signing with Kentucky… Nation Ford High School won back-to-back South Carolina state championships with Fischer on the outside in 2018 and 2019, the same years she was named the South Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year… She was the No. 15 recruit in the class of 2020… Fischer played club for Adam Speight and the Carolina Rouge.
Personal
Daughter of Stacey and Tom Fischer… Stacey played basketball at Akron and Tom played football at Miami (Ohio)… Has four siblings: Robert, Gretchen, Reece, and Brock… Born Sept. 12, 2001… Graduated in May 2024 with degree in Sociology.
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