Nika Markovic

Photo by: Alex Mowrey/Pitt Athletics

Height:
6-0
Class:
Senior
High School:
Gimnazija Celje-Center
Hometown:
Braslovce, Slovenia

Career Highlights
AVCA All-America Third Team (2018)
2x AVCA East Coast All-Region Team (2017, 2018)
2x All-ACC First Team (2017, 2018)
All-ACC Academic Team (2018)
3x ACC Player of the Week (2017, 2018)
AVCA All-America Honorable Mention (2017)
ACC All-Freshman Team (2016)
2x ACC Freshman of the Week (2016)

AS A SENIOR (2019)
Helped the Panthers earn their third consecutive ACC Championship with a perfect 18-0 record in conference play … Part of Pitt’s fourth consecutive NCAA Second Round appearance … Appeared in all 32 matches, starting nine, and playing in a total of 107 sets … Posted a season high of 14 kills against No. 10 Oregon (Sep. 11) … Recorded a career-high four service aces against Cincinnati (Aug. 30) … Tallied a season high of four blocks against Duquesne (Sep. 7) … Completed her Pitt career with the ninth-most service aces in program history, 122 over four years.

AS A JUNIOR (2018)
Part of the Panthers’ first outright ACC Championship, the second consecutive title for the program … Helped the team to its third appearance in as many years at the NCAA Tournament, defeating Iona in the opening round at Petersen Events Center before falling to Michigan in the second round … First player from Pitt to earn AVCA All-America Third Team honors since 2009 … Recorded the 1,000th kill of her career in the Panthers’ NCAA Tournament First Round win over Iona … Led the Panthers with 3.60 kills per set, ranking fifth in the ACC … Posted 24 matches with double-figure kills, including the final 10 of the season … Led the Panthers in kills in 13 matches, including the final five of the season … Second on the squad with 29 total service aces for the season … Posted a career-high four service aces twice, against Seton Hall and Louisville … Second on the team with five double-doubles, each with kills/digs … Had a season-high 14 digs in the Panthers’ ACC Championship-clinching win at Florida State … Fourth on the team with 0.86 blocks per set … Recorded a career-high seven blocks against Kennesaw State … Hit a season-high .579 against North Dakota, with 11 kills on 19 attempts with zero errors … Named to All-ACC Preseason Team … Earned ACC Player of the Week honors (Oct. 8).

AS A SOPHOMORE (2017)
Part of the first volleyball team to win an ACC Championship, claiming the title after defeating Virginia to end the regular season … Helped the team to their second appearance in two years at the NCAA Tournament, defeating VCU in the opening round, before falling to No. 1 Penn State … Earned AVCA Honorable Mention All-America Honors … Earned First National Bank Student-Athlete of the Week five times throughout the duration of the season … Earned ACC Player of the Week during the week of Nov. 27 … Kicked the season off with a double-double against No. 3 Washington, tallying 12 kills and 10 digs … Notched a monstrous 23 kills and 27 digs in the squad’s first win of the season over Saint Mary’s … Logged a season high 26 kills to go along with five digs and four blocks in a loss to WKU … Tallied 19 kills and nine digs in a win over Syracuse … Collected another double-double in a shutout victory over Virginia, putting up 17 kills and 14 digs to go along with three assists, a service ace and two blocks … Tabbed 21 kills and 13 digs to go along with four assists and three blocks in a win over Florida State … Logged 12 kills, three assists, six digs and four blocks in a shutout win at Notre Dame … Helped Pitt to a shutout win over Wake Forest, contributing 17 kills, two assists, two service aces, four digs and two total blocks … Notched 20 kills, one assist, six digs and a block in a win at Virginia Tech … Collected another double-double against Virginia, tallying 10 kills and 10 digs to go along with four assists, one service ace and three total blocks … Recorded 17 kills and 13 digs to go along with four assists and four total blocks in Pitt’s win over VCU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament … Contributed 16 kills, 12 digs, one assist and one block in Pitt’s loss to Penn State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

AS A FRESHMAN (2016)
Part of the first Pitt volleyball team to reach the NCAA Tournament in 12 years and the first to advance to the second round in 13 years ... Awarded ACC All-Freshman Team honors ... Recognized as the ACC Freshman of the Week twice, once during the week of Oct. 31 and again the week of Nov. 21 ... Named First National Bank Athlete of the Week twice, once during the week of Sept. 27 and again during the week of Oct. 31 ... Recognized as an All-Tournament player during the Panther Challenge ... Recorded 16 kills in the Panthers’ NCAA tournament victory over No. 23 Dayton, finishing with a hitting percentage of .424 ... Notched 14 kills with a hitting percentage of .448 in the ACC finale versus Virginia ... Finished the season with three straight double-digit kill games, tallying 41 kills over that stretch ... Charted a four-game stretch of double-digit kills from Oct. 28-Nov. 6 during which she logged 58 kills ... Recorded eight kills and a hitting percentage of .667 in a victory over Robert Morris.

PERSONAL
Daughter of Zlatko Markovic and Smilja Vozlic ... Has an older brother, Borut.