Carsen Murray

Photo by: Marquette University

Position:
Middle Blocker
Height:
6-4
Class:
Graduate Student
High School:
Blue Springs South
Hometown:
Lee's Summit, Mo.

Honors and Awards:

2024-25
All-BIG EAST Preseason Team
BIG EAST Honor Roll (Sept. 16)

2023-24
All-BIG EAST Team
BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Nov. 20)
BIG EAST All-Academic Team

2022-23
AVCA All-East Region
All-BIG EAST Team (unanimous)
BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week (Nov. 14)
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Oct. 24)
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
All-BIG EAST Preseason Team
BIG EAST All-Academic Team

2021-22
BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 4)
All-Red & White Invitational (Sept. 3-5 at Illinois State)
BIG EAST All-Academic Team

2020-21
BIG EAST All-Academic Team

2024 (R-Sr.): Led all BIG-EAST hitters in hitting percentage (.372) ... Hit .632 with no errors and four blocks at then-No. 7 Wisconsin (Sept. 17) ... Notched 14 kills on a .542 hitting percentage in the five-set win at Western Kentucky (Sept. 13) ... Posted seven blocks in two matches, Dayton (Sept. 14) and St. John's (Oct. 11) ... Recorded 216 kills over the season, averaging 1.82 per set ... Notched 89 blocks on the season.

2023 (R-Jr.): All-BIG EAST Team ... Started 27 of the 29 matches in which she played and appeared in 97 sets ... Hit a combined .374 (161-38-329) with 1.66 kills per set and 109 total blocks (1.12 per set) ... Played in 58 of 60 sets in BIG EAST play and hit a combined .420 (105-21-200) with 1.81 kills per set and 58 total blocks (1.00 per set) ... Missed the first three games of the season due to an injury ... In her first game back she posted six blocks and eight kills versus No. 25 Purdue (Sept. 1) ... Reached five blocks and six kills against No. 23 Kansas (Sept. 2) ... Had six kills, three blocks and three digs against No. 1 Wisconsin (Sept. 13) ... Posted 10 kills on .667 hitting (10-0-15) with four blocks in sweep at Providence (Oct. 1) ... Recorded 12 kills, two digs and three blocks, while hitting .476 in a four-set win at Villanova (Nov. 11).

2022 (R-So.): Unanimous All-BIG EAST Team selection ... AVCA All-East Region ... Ranked ninth nationally in hitting percentage (.416; 255-51-490) to lead the BIG EAST ... Finished the year second in the league with 1.08 blocks per frame ... Averaged 2.28 kills per set with 121 total blocks ... Season-long hitting percentage ranked as the No. 2 single-season mark in MU history behind Rabbecka Gonyo's .429 from 2010 ... Reached double-digit kills eight times, including a season-high 17 kills in a five-set win at DePaul (Oct. 26) ... Hit .625 (11-1-16) with 11 kills and five blocks in a sweep at St. John's (Oct. 7) ... Hit .600 (12-0-20) with two blocks, two digs and three assists in sweep of UConn (Nov. 13) ... Hit .636 (15-1-22) with four blocks in BIG EAST title match loss at then-No. 15 Creighton (Nov. 26) ... Posted 12 kills and hit .478 (12-1-23) with two blocks in NCAA First Round sweep of Ball State (Dec. 1) ... Posted six blocks in three consecutive matches (Sept. 4-10) against High Point, LSU, and Loyola Chicago… Hit .800 (8-0-10) in BIG EAST opener against DePaul (Sept. 21)

2021 (R-Fr.): Played 110 sets in all 32 matches at middle blocker, recording 169 kills (1.54 per set) with 95 blocks (0.86/set) while hitting .336 (169-40-384) ... Posted season-high 13 kills while hitting .591 in sweep of Providence (Oct. 30) ... Named to the all-tournament team at Illinois State's Red & White Invitational (Sept. 3-5) ... Posted 10 kills and a season-best seven blocks against UIC (Sept. 3) and followed that up with a .778 hitting percentage (7-0-9) in a sweep of Ohio (Sept. 4) ... Notched four kills and five blocks while hitting .667 (4-0-6) against Dayton (Dec. 2) in the NCAA First Round.

2020-21 (RS - COVID): Murray played 11 sets in seven matches as a first-year player ... Recorded three kills on five swings, one dig and a pair of blocks.

Prior to Marquette: Murray, from Lee's Summit, Missouri was a four-year letter winner at Blue Springs South High School ... She was selected second team all-conference as a senior in 2019 and named to the all-district first team and a MOKAN All-Star ... In 2017 Murray earned honorable mention all-conference and second-team all-district honors ... She led Blue Springs South to three conference championships ... She was ranked as the fourth-best player in Missouri by PrepDig and No. 88 on PrepVolleyball's Top-100 Senior Aces ... In 2019, Murray helped her club team to a fifth-place finish at the Girls Junior National Championship and second place in the NLQ and MEQ National Qualifiers ... Invited to play on the 2017 and 2018 USA Select Training Team.

Personal: Born in Lee's Summit, Missouri ... Youngest of two children to Charles and Sheila Murray ... Has an older brother, C.J., who plays football at Washburn University ... Father played basketball at Westminster College ... In high school, Murray was on the honor roll for four years, as well as a member of the National Honor Society ... Earned a cumulative GPA of 4.2 through her first three years of high school ... Competed in debate and DECA in high school and taught herself to play the acoustic guitar ... Earned a bachelor's degree from Marquette in December 2023 in entrepreneurship ... Pursuing her MBA from the Marquette College of Business.