Emma Cyrus '17 Recruiting Profile

My achievements:

***UPDATED on Nov. 13, 2015!!**  

I was just named Second Team All Conference! I was also named Offensive Player of the Year at Norman High for volleyball!!

Please check out the YouTube link below my official NCSA video.  Thanks!

I have a 3.75 GPA my first semester of my junior year! My goal is to have a 4.0 next semester!

I was honored to be named to the 2014 and 2015 AVCA Phenom list!  I ranked #17/155 out of all Middles (with grad years from 2014-2018) at all 2014 AVCA events!  I ranked #4/48 out of all 2017 Middles at all 2014 AVCA events.  I ranked #3/20 out of all 2017 Middles at the 2014 AVCA Phenom combine.  I ranked #25/273 out of all positions and all year groups in the Phenom combine with my VPI!!!!  I was #220.  My VPI is 558.1.

I was named in the JVA watchlist for 2015!

I was recently notified that I made the Under Armour Advanced Winter Competition Team in Colorado Springs at the US Olympic Training Center.  I attended from December 27, 2014 - December 30, 2014! It was such a great and inspiring experience! I was also notified that I qualified for the Under Armour Advanced Competition in San Juan, Puerto Rico from April 22, 2015 - April 26, 2015!!!  I was nominated by my high school coach (Coach Coleman) to participate in the Under Armour Volleyball Factory National Tryout which is what made this possible.  

Middle hitter and blocker for my high school varsity volleyball team as freshman

Earned Player of the Week for varsity volleyball the week of September 30, 2013

Voted varsity team’s Most Improved Player of the Year by the coaching staff

Played on a national volleyball team during my 1st year playing club volleyball

Starting middle all season during club volleyball

Qualified for USAV GJNC in Minneapolis (National Division)

Won 1st place in championship bracket at OKRVA Regionals 2014

Attending USAV High Performance A3 National Team in Edmond, OK (July 2014)

Achieved 3rd place at the national qualifier Show Me with OK Premier in 2013

On the best 15's club volleyball team in the state of Oklahoma in 2014

Made national volleyball team 2nd year of playing volleyball

I have played the guitar for five years

I received a varsity letter my first year of high school volleyball

My Goals:

To play varsity volleyball all four years of high school

To go to a Division 1 college

To get at least a 3.6 GPA every semester of high school

To become a civil engineer

To be a starting middle for the varsity volleyball team

To letter all four years of varsity volleyball

Play volleyball outside of the country

To play on the Olympic volleyball team

What I am doing now:

I work out at Youth Performance in Norman, OK two times a week

I am trained there by Chat Williams (He was awarded 2013 NSCA Personal Trainer of the Year)

I have club practice two hours a day, twice a week.

I go to open gym for two hours every Sunday

I will be a Sophomore in high school that takes College Placement classes

I have already taken the ACT and will take it every year

I came into high school with three incoming credits (Algebra, Biology, and Spanish I)

I have band practice with my band once a week

I perform as lead singer and acoustic electric guitar player once a month for the public on Main Street in Norman, OK

I play on a national volleyball team