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2023 Volleyball Roster

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6 Laila Ricks

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Position RS
  • Major Kinesiology
  • Hometown Redondo Beach, CA
  • High School Redondo Union
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  • Opendorse laila-ricks

Biography

CAREER HONORS
  • Academic All-Big Ten (2021, 2022)
  • 2022 Stony Brook Invitational All-Tournament Team
  • 2021 Charm City Challenge All-Tournament Team
  • 2021 Maryland Challenge MVP
As a senior (2023):
  • Appeared in 44 sets across 16 matches
  • Totaled 81 kills with career-best 1.84 kills per set
  • Led the Terps with 12 kills in a sweep over Lamar (8/26)
  • Notched her 400th career kill against Lamar (8/26)
  • Scored career-best 13 kills as one of five Terps to record double-digit kills against Coastal Carolina (9/8)
  • Notched eight kills and two blocks on Senior Night victory over Rutgers (11/24)
As a junior (2022):
  • Third on the team in service aces (30) and blocks (114)
  • Totaled 154 kills, 249 points, and 124 digs on the season
  • Appeared in 29 matches 
  • Set career-high with 11 kills in victory over San Diego State (9/9) and tied it against East Carolina (9/16)
  • Set career-high in aces with four against Georgetown (9/4/22) and East Carolina (9/16/22)
  • Tied career-high in blocks with ten in sweep of Stony Brook (9/2)
  • Earned 300th career kill in win over Mercer (9/16)

As a sophomore (2021):
  • Totaled 168 kills, 130 blocks, and 57 digs across 109 sets
  • Season-high 10 kills vs. Quinnipiac (9/10/21)
  • Season-high 10 blocks vs. Temple (9/3/21)
  • Recorded 8 kills and 3 block assists in Terps win over Wisconsin (9/24/21)
  • Charm City Challenge All-Tournament Team

As a freshman (2020-21):
  • Helped Maryland become the best blocking team in the Big Ten, averaging 3.15 blocks/set as a team, the most by a Big Ten team since 2009
  • Ranked third on the team in individual blocks per set (1.05)
  • Totaled 64 blocks, the third most on the team
  • Played in 18 matches, starting in 10 of them (61 sets played)
  • Started in the last 10 matches of the season after starting the season as a defensive substitution in the first eight matches she played
  • Had six matches with 5+ blocks
  • Had seven matches with 5+ kills
  • Tallied five kills and three blocks in her first career start vs. Indiana (3/5)
  • Notched a season-high nine blocks vs. Indiana (3/6)
  • Recorded a season-high nine kills in back-to-back matches against Rutgers (3/24-3/27)
  • Closed the season with a 14 kill, 11 block weekend in two matches against Northwestern (4/2-4/3)
Before Maryland:
  • Spent four years with nationally-ranked high schools Flint Hill (Oakton, Va.) and Redondo Union (Redondo Beach, Calif.)
  • Also played with nationally-ranked clubs Mizuno Long Beach and Metro VBC
  • 2020 Prep Volleyball Senior Ace (#70)
  • Helped Redondo Union to the 2019 CIF Southern Section Championship
  • 2017 USA Volleyball A1 National Training Team
  • 2016 USA Volleyball Continental Team
  • First Team All-Virginia
  • First Team All-League
  • First Team All-Conference
  • Member of Maryland's third ranked recruiting class in program history

Updated November 27, 2023
Ricks' CAREER HIGHS
  • Kills: 13 vs. Coastal Carolina (9/8/23)
  • Attacks: 32 vs. Coastal Carolina (9/8/23)
  • Hitting Percentage: .750 vs. Georgetown (9/2/22)
  • Digs: 16 vs Arizona (9/10/22)
  • Assists: 2 (2x), last at Nebraska (11/12/21)
  • Aces: 4 (2x), last vs East Carolina (9/16/22)
  • Solo Blocks: 2 (2x), last vs. Indiana (9/25/22)
  • Block Assists: 10 at Temple (9/3/21)
  • Total Blocks: 10 (2x), last at Stony Brook (9/2/22)

Statistics

Season:
2023

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2020Freshman

    Middle Blocker
    6'0"
    6
  • 6

    2021Sophomore

    Middle Blocker
    6'0"
    6
  • 6

    2022Junior

    Right Side
    6'0"
    6
  • 6

    2023Senior

    Right Side
    6'0"
    6