2023: Earned Academic Distinction accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following the Fall 2023 semester … Appeared in 28 matches, starting in 20, playing in a total of 83 sets … Closed out the year with 93 kills and was second on the team with 47 total blocks while adding five assists and 12 digs … Twice racked up double figures in the digs column, finishing with a season-high 11 on the road at Kutztown (Oct. 21) and then adding 10 in the Northeast-10 Championship semifinals against Bentley (Nov. 17) … The 10 kills against Bentley came on 10 attempts as she closed out the match perfect in the hitting column, the only Charger to achieve that feat during the season … Overall, finished with at least one kill in all but four of the 28 matches she played in … Split her 47 total blocks with seven solo and 40 assisted as she put up at least one block in 23 of the 28 matches she played in … Set a season-high with four blocks, all assisted, against American International (Oct. 10), while finishing six matches with three blocks.
2022: Named to the Northeast-10 All-Rookie Team … Earned Academic Distinction accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following both the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters … One of two players on the team to play and start all 28 matches, playing in all but one of the 103 total sets … Finished her rookie campaign with 179 kills, fourth most on the team, averaging 1.75 per set … Added to that five assists, nine aces, 67 digs and 59 blocks, which was second most on the team … Among her 59 blocks were 15 solo stuffs, which was tied for second on the team … Closed out six matches with 10+ kills, finishing all 28 matches with at least one kill … Set a career-high with 18 kills in the second of back-to-back matches with double digits, which came on the road at American International (Oct. 4) as she led the Chargers against the conference championship team … Finished that match hitting a .419 with her 18 kills coming on 31 attempts with five errors … Added at least one dig in all but two of the 28 matches … Set a season-high with eight digs against Holy Family (Sep. 10) … Followed that up with seven later that day against Wilmington, while adding 10 kills against the Wildcats … Also finished all but two matches with at least one blocks, setting her season-best with five against Georgian Court (Oct. 18) as she added that to 10 kills and a .471 hitting percentage against the Lions.
High School: Played three years of volleyball for the Trojans of Fife High School … Junior year named All-League blocker and team Offensive Player of Year ... Senior year named Team Captain, Team MVP, First Team All-League and received All=State Honors.
Personal: Daughter of Terence and Ana Burns-Jonson … Has four siblings, two brothers Tavis and Bryce and two sisters Tala and Marsaia … Father, Terence, played football at Arizona State and was a Rose Bowl champion in 1987 … Mother, Ana, played basketball, volleyball, and softball at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College … Brother, Bryce, played football at Hardin-Simmons University … Majoring in business analytics
