Ceci Gooch

Position:
Middle Blocker
Height:
6-2
Class:
Sophomore
High School:
Highland Park HS
Hometown:
Dallas, Texas
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Career Honors & Awards
• 2024 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll
• 2024 CSC Academic All-District Team
• 2023-24 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2024
Played in all 26 matches, appearing in 106 sets, starting every match but one… Registered 130 kills, 1.23 kills per set, hit .240 on the season, with 168 total blocks (0.82 blocks per set)… Laid down a career-high 12 kills against Washington (9/7) on a career-high 23 attacks… Put up a career high eight blocks against South Carolina (10/11)… Put up four digs, tying a career high, against Fresno State (9/8)… Concluded the season with five five-plus block matches… Named to the CSC Academic All-District Team… Member of SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll.

2023
Appeared in 26 matches, playing 95 sets as a true freshman… Started 25 matches as middle blocker… Recorded a season-best eight kills four times… Hit .727 at LSU (11/22)… Put up a season-best seven blocks twice: at #10 Georgia Tech (9/15), vs. Howard (9/17)… Laid down 111 kills and 81 total blocks… Member of SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

High School/Club
Four-year varsity letterwinner at Highland Park High School… Named back-to-back District Blocker of the Year in 2021 and 2022… Her senior season saw her earn AVCA High School First Team All-America, TGCA 6A All-State, varsity captain, and Highland Park offensive MVP honors… She played seven years of club for Skyline Juniors (2023), Drive Nation (2022), and TAV (2019-2022)… She won USVA National Championships with Skyline 14 Black and TAV 16 Black… Off the volleyball court, she was a multi-time academic all-district performer and was the founding member of the Teens United volunteer organization in association with the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.

Personal
Daughter of Cecily and Scott Gooch… Born Oct. 20, 2004… She has two siblings: Josie and Vince… She comes from an athletic family as many of her family members played college athletics or are currently on college rosters… Her father Scott, grandfather Ed Small, and great-grandfather Clint Small all played football at the University of Texas… Her sister is currently a senior on the Michigan lacrosse team… Her uncle Clint Small played football at Vanderbilt and her aunt Allison McCombe Small was a basketball player at Denison… Majoring in Marketing.