Courtney Buzzerio

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Position:
RS
Hometown:
Chino Hills, Calif.
Class:
Graduate Student
Letters:
4
High School:
Orange Lutheran HS
Height:
6-5
Prev School:
Iowa

Career Highlights at Pitt
AVCA 1st Team All-American (2022)
Volleyballmag.com 1st Team All-American (2022)
AVCA East Coast Player of the Year (2022)
Madison NCAA Regional MVP (2022)
AVCA All-East Coast Region Team (2022)
All-ACC First Team (2022)
3x ACC Player of the Week (Sept. 12-19) (Oct. 10-17) (Oct. 17-24)
5x PNC Achiever of the Week (2022)
All-ACC Academic Team 2022

Career Highlights prior to Pitt
AVCA All-North Region Team (2021)
AVCA All-North Region Honorable Mention (2020)
All-Big Ten First Team (2020)
All-Big Ten Second Team (2021)
Big Ten Player of the Week (Feb. 22, 2021)

AS A GRADUATE SENIOR (2022)
Member of Pitt’s NCAA Final Four team, the second consecutive National Semifinal appearance…won her first ACC Championship, helping the Panthers to a 17-1 conference record and the most wins in a single season since 1990 (31-4)…AVCA 1^st Team All-American…East Coast Regional Player of the Year…volleymag.com 1^st Team All-America…first Panther in program history to be named 1^st Team All-American by both volleymag.com and the AVCA…led the Panthers with 461 kills, the 2nd most in the modern scoring era, behind Stephanie Williams (467 in 2016)…finished the year with a .320 hitting % on 1,030 attacks, the highest hitting percentage in Division I by anyone with over 1,000 attacks…joins Kayla Lund as the only Pitt player to achieve three ACC Player of the Week awards in a single season…set career highs in kills (461), attack percentage (.320), aces (34), blocks (83) and points (538)… one of four Panthers in the Dan Fisher era to collect at least three matches of 5+ kills/set and .400+ hitting in the same season, doing so against Ohio State (9/18), Florida State (10/16) and BYU (12/3)…set the Pitt program record for the most kills in an NCAA Tournament (82) and the most kills in a single NCAA Tournament match (23 vs. BYU (12/3))…recorded 11 kills on 15 swings with no errors in the third set of Pitt’s 3-0 sweep over BYU in the 2^nd round of the NCAA Tournament…named NCAA Madison Regional MVP after averaging 4.11 kills/set in a pair of wins over Florida (12/8) and Wisconsin (12/10)…made 20+ kills three times throughout the season…set a career high with seven blocks in the second match of the season, vs. Hawai’i (8/27).

AT IOWA (2018-21)
AS A SENIOR (2021)
Second Team All-Big Ten … Led Iowa in kills (436), aces (30), and total attacks (1099), and third in total blocks (42) … Recorded two double-doubles … Tallied five career highs this season including kills (28 vs. Duke on Aug. 28), total attacks (63 vs. Illinois on Sept. 22), attack percentage (.552 vs. Indiana on Nov. 5), aces (5 vs. Northwestern on Oct. 23), and digs (16 vs. Colorado on Sept. 3) … Saw action in all 107 sets.

AS A JUNIOR (2020)
AVCA All-North Region Honorable Mention; fifth All-Region honoree in school history … First Team All-Big Ten; eighth first-team honoree in school history … First Hawkeye to earn first-team All-Big Ten honors and All-Region honors since Sara Meyermann in 2001 … Led Iowa in kills (184) and aces (20), ranked second in assists (323) and total attacks (498), and third in digs (127) and total blocks (46) … Played in every rotation, averaging 9.2 kills, 16.1 assists, and 6.3 digs in 20 matches … Posted team-high eight double-doubles, including a string of four straight in late February … Big Ten Player of the Week (Feb. 22), becoming the first Hawkeye to do so since 2016 … Posted third career triple-double (13 kills, 21 assists, 11 digs) on Feb. 6 against Indiana … Only individual in the Big Ten and one of 22 nationally to record a triple-double this season … Only Hawkeye in program history to record multiple triple-doubles in a career … Record seven matches with double-digit kills, including 19 against Rutgers to tie a career high.

AS A SOPHOMORE (2019)
Appeared in every match for Iowa … Led the team in aces (32), second in kills (305), second in assists (263), and fourth in digs (175) … Amassed 15 double-digit kills matches … Became the first Hawkeye since 2005 to record a triple double with 18 kills, 20 assists, and 10 digs against Nebraska on Nov. 16 … Buzzerio was one of 32 players in 2019 to accomplish the feat and only player in the Big Ten … Notched a career-high 19 kills against Iowa State on Sept. 21 … Reached a new career high with 51 assists against Indiana on Oct. 26 … Added a career-high six blocks against Indiana on Oct. 20.

AS A FRESHMAN (2018)
Appeared in 15 matches … Tallied 1 solo black against Belmont on Aug. 26 … Recorded a career-high with eight assists against Washington on Aug. 31 … Tallied five assists and a block against Colorado on Sept. 1 … Notched four assists against South Dakota State on Sept. 8 … Notched 1 dig vs. Ohio State.

HIGH SCHOOL
1st team All Trinity league her junior and senior year and 2nd team All Baseline league her sophomore year under coach Andrew Mabry … 1st team All-Orange County, CIF Div. 2 Player of the Year, and CIF Div. 2 Champions her senior year … 2016 Junior National Open Bronze medalist … 2017 Triple Crown Open Bronze medalists … National honor society member … CSF member.

PERSONAL
Born April 9, 2000 … Daughter of Tony and Dana … Father played water polo at Cal State University-Los Angeles … Mother played volleyball at UC Irvine … Has three sisters (Brooke, Meghan, and Paige) … Played alongside her older sister, Meghan, while at Iowa … Biology major.