2010: Selected to the Northeast-10 Conference All-Tournament Team … Named NE-10 Conference Player of the Week twice, September 7 and November 16 … Led the league with 110 total blocks for a 1.05 blocks per set average … Finished first on the team in hitting percentage (.283) and third on the team with 256 kills, also compiled 41 digs, 12 aces and five assists … Recorded double-digit kills in 11 matches, including four straight to open the season … Registered a season-high 16 kills against Pace in the NCAA East Region Championship Tournament … Amassed 13 kills against Saint Rose and 12-kill matches against Bridgeport and Stonehill … Nearly collected a double-double with 10 kills and a season-high nine blocks against Bridgeport at the University of New Haven Invitational … Recorded eight kills, four aces and four blocks against Bentley University.
2009: New Haven’s leading blocker with 120 total blocks … Started all 31 matches, seeing action in 114 sets … Averaged 1.05 blocks per set – fourth in the Northeast-10 Conference … Second on the team with a .254 hitting percentage … Third on the team with 2.36 kills per set … Recorded a season-high seven solo blocks at St. Anselm (11/6) … Tallied a season-high 10 total blocks vs. Adelphi (10/23) … Had a season-high 19 kills vs. then-ranked No. 23 Florida Southern (10/12) … Tallied double-digit kills in nine matches … Accumulated 269 kills.
2008: Named to the Northeast-10 All-Rookie Team ... Played in all 123 sets and started 34-of-35 matches as a freshman ... Tallied 139 kills and 61 errors on 320 attempts (.244 hitting percentage) ... Totaled a season-high 11 kills vs. Le Moyne on Novermber 14, 2008 ... Grabbed 82 total blocks and 186.5 points.
High School: Played volleyball and was a member of the track and field team in high school ... Four year letter winner for the Lions of Chaminade-Madonna ... Named to the All-County team by the Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel her senior year ... Led her team to the regional semifinals in 2007 and were the district runners-up ... Recorded a Chaminade-Madonna record 332 kills her senior season ... Member of the National Spanish Honors Society.
Personal: Daughter of Sundey and Josephine Akinbiyi ... Two brothers, Kevin and Gregory ... Athletes run in the Akinbiyi family; Elizabeth’s brothers both played college football and she had another relative play professional soccer in England.
