Krista Blakely

Position:
Rightside Hitter
Height:
6-0
Class:
Graduate Student
High School:
University High School Academy
Hometown:
Detroit, Mich.
Exchange Profile:
Pitch an NIL Deal

Career Honors & Awards
• 2020-21 Volleyball Academic All-MAC Team
• 2021 Volleyball Academic All-MAC Team
• 2021 Academic All-MAC Team
• 2022 Volleyball Academic All-MAC Team

2023
Pursuing Master's in Journalism… Appeared in 25 matches, playing in 68 sets… Started 12 matches… Recorded 78 kills, 1.15 kills per set… Season-best match came at #10 Tennessee, recording nine kills on 16 swings, hitting .500 in the match… Recorded four digs and five blocks, both season highs, at Missouri (11/5)… Put up 35 total blocks, recording 0.51 blocks per set.

2022 (Eastern Michigan)
Named to 2022 Volleyball Academic All-MAC Team… Appeared in all 30 matches and played 113 sets at EMU in 2022… Recorded 2.04 kills and 0.65 blocks per set… Concluded the season with 230 total kills, hitting .166 on the season… Put up 73 total blocks (six solo, 67 assisted)… Totaled double-digit kills eight times including a season-high 17 against Akron (10/29), hitting .424 in the match, a season best… Recorded a season-high seven blocks against Miami (Ohio) (10/15).

2021 (Eastern Michigan)
Academic All-MAC selection… Named to 2021 Volleyball Academic All-MAC Team… Played in all 29 matches for the Eagles, making 20 starts, amassing 110 sets played… Finished the season with 253 kills, 2.3 kills per set, 73 total blocks, and 2.66 points per set… Notched 12 kills and three blocks at Central Michigan, Nov. 17… Totaled 12 kills and tied a season-high with six blocks in a four-set victory over Akron (10/30)… Earned 15 kills and six blocks versus Buffalo (10/29)… Recorded 15 kills and two blocks versus Central Michigan (10/20)… Combined for 26 kills in a weekend series versus Miami (10/14-15), including a career-high 17 kills and a block in a victory over the RedHawks… Tallied 14 kills and three blocks at Kent State (10/9)… Combined for 11 kills three blocks, and a season-high four digs in a win against Ohio (10/8)… Notched 11 kills and two blocks to help the Eagles sweep ACC opponent Boston College (9/18)… Earned 14 kills and six blocks in a win over Montana (8/28).

2020-21 (Eastern Michigan)
Named to 2020-21 Volleyball Academic All-MAC Team… Appeared in 12 matches in her first season donning the Green and White… Totaled 37 kills, 27 blocks, and 51.5 points… Averaged 1.19 kills per set and 0.87 blocks per set… Recorded her first career kill, dig, and block against in-state rival Western Michigan (2/4)… Notched a personal-best six blocks to go along with five kills at Akron (2/18)… Collected a career-high eight kills and added four blocks in a 3-0 sweep over Toledo (3/5)… Posted seven kills in the second match against the Rockets (3/6)… Tallied back-to-back matches with five blocks (against Central Michigan, 3/16, 3/23).

2019 (Eastern Michigan)
Redshirted.

High School/Club
Graduate of University High School Academy where she played for head coach Alisha Love… Two-time varsity letterwinner for the Eagle, earning both an all-conference and all-tournament team nod as a senior… Was named UHSA's team MVP after her senior campaign.

Personal
Daughter of Werner Blakely and Donna (Stevenson) Davis… Born Dec. 13, 2000… Both her father and mother were student-athletes at Eastern Michigan… Blakely was a four-year letterwinner in football (1988-91), while Davis was a member of the 1990 EMU volleyball team that won a program-record 30 games… Has two brothers, Christian and Werner Blakely, and two sisters, Courtnie Flippen and Jasmine Davis… Graduated from Eastern Michigan in Spring 2023 with degree in Communications with a Minor in Journalism… Pursuing Master's in Journalism and Mass Communication at Georgia.