Taylor anderson

Taylor Anderson Season 2025-26

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PositionS
Height6-1
YearSenior
HometownSan Antonio, Texas

2025 / AS A JUNIOR

  • AVCA Second Team All-America
  • First Team All-Big Ten
  • AVCA All-Midwest Region Team
  • AVCA Player of The Year Watchlist addition in October
  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • 2x Big Ten Setter of the Week (10/20 and 10/27)
  • Started and played in all 34 matches this season
  • Finished the year ranked No. 1 nationally in total assists (1,420) while averaging 10.84 assists per set (No. 2 in the Big Ten)
  • Guided the team to a No. 1 national ranking in team kills (1,834)
  • Led Purdue to a .290 hitting %, which checked in at No. 2 all-time in Purdue single-season history and No. 12 in the nation for 2025
  • Became the seventh setter in Purdue Volleyball history to receive All-America accolades
  • Averaged 2.06 digs per set and .60 blocks per set
  • Totaled 270 digs, a career season-high and second-most on the team, second only to the libero
  • Her 79 total blocks were second-most on the team
  • Racked up 107 total kills (.82 per set): a career season-high
  • Registered a career-high eight kills vs. Houston (9/13), going errorless on the attack on 12 attempts for a .667 efficiency
  • Totaled 18 matches with at least 40 assists
  • Tied career-high of 60 assists in a single match vs. Bowling Green (9/4)
  • Guided the team to 10 matches with a .350 or better attack %
  • Career-high 14 attacks in a single match (8/29 vs. South Florida)
  • Went errorless on the attack in 15 matches
  • Owned an attack efficiency of .600 or better on eight occasions
  • Ran an offense in which there were two attack errors or fewer 88 times by Boilermakers
  • Registered a kill in 32 of 34 matches this season
  • Posted 9 matches with at least five kills
  • Double-doubles this season: 11
  • Matches with 40+ assists this season: 18
  • Matches with 45+ assists this season: 13
  • Matches with 50+ assists this season: 9
  • Matches with 60+ assists this season: 1

2024 / AS A SOPHOMORE

  • Second Team All-Big Ten
  • Big Ten Setter of the Week (9/9/24)
  • Academic All-Big Ten
  • Started and played in all 34 of Purdue’s matches
  • Finished the season with 1327 assists averaging 11.25 per set
  • Set a season-high of 57 assists at Oregon (11/27/24)
  • Set a season-high of 13 digs at Northwestern (10/04/24)
  • Recorded a career-high 7 kills vs UCLA (10/17/24)
  • Recorded at least 1 kill in 27 of 34 matches
  • Set a career-high 8 blocks vs Kansas St. (08/30/24)
  • Tallied a total of 98 blocks over the season
  • Recorded a block in all but one match
  • Recorded double-digit digs in 11 matches
  • Matched a career high of 3 service aces vs Indiana & California (10/19/24 & 09/05/24)
  • Leads all setters in Power 4 programs through regular season with 93 blocks
  • Has posted seven or more blocks four times this season
  • Registered 50 or more assists five times in the season
  • Ranked eighth nationally and first in conference in assists per set with 11.25
  • Ranked eighth nationally in total assists with 1,327
  • Helped lead team to eighth place national rank in assists per set with 13.29


2023 / AS A FRESHMAN

  • All-Big Ten Freshman Team
  • Two-time Big Ten Setter of the Week (11/27/23 and 9/11/23)
  • Big Ten Freshman of the Week (11/20/23)
  • Played in 31 of 32 matches, starting the final 27 matches of the season
  • Guided the team with 1,107 assists (9.88 per set) during her freshman campaign, fourth-most among all Big Ten setters
  • Led the team to rank first in the Big Ten and #14 in the nation in team assists (1,561)
  • Guided Purdue to a pair of its best offensive productions in the last five years, both of which came against Big Ten opponents (69 kills vs. #16 Penn State and vs. #3 Wisconsin and 66 kills at Ohio State)
  • Averaged 13.14 assists per set during the NCAA First/Second Rounds
  • Since making her first collegiate start, she led the Big Ten in assists per set five separate weeks (most recently: Week 14 with 11.50 assists per set). Additionally, she led Week 13 in total assists (89)
  • Produced more blocks than any other Big Ten setter in 2023 with .89 blocks per set
  • Averaged 1.97 digs per set
  • Set career-highs with 60 assists, 16 digs and five kills (.625%) in the NCAA Second Round vs. #6 seed Marquette
  • Her 60 assists were a program-record for a Boilermaker in an NCAA tournament match (previous: 59 set in 2004). The performance came 24 hours after setting the team to a Purdue NCAA tournament record .478 hitting % vs. Fairfield in the First Round
  • Recorded at least one block in all but two matches
  • Went errorless on the attack 13 times
  • In her first career start, registered 56 assists vs. SMU (9/8), at the time the most by a Boilermaker since 2019 (Hayley Bush in 5 sets vs. Indiana, 10/9/19), coupled with a career-high six total blocks (1-5) and an errorless 3 kills (.600%). Meanwhile, the last time a Boilermaker has posted as many assists in a four-setter was in 2017
  • Guided Purdue to its most efficient set of the season with an errorless .611 hitting % in Set 4 at Maryland
  • Reached 35 assists or more in 18 matches this season, including 14 of the last 19
  • Registered 420 assists in the last 10 matches alone
  • Posted an attack % of .400 or better: 7 times
  • Posted 40 assists or more in a match: 11
  • Posted 45 assists or more in a match: 9
  • Posted 50 assists or more in a match: 6
  • Double-doubles: 8, including a career-best 60 assists and 16 digs vs. Marquette (12/2) and 57 assists and 12 digs vs. #3 Wisconsin (11/17)
  • Totaled five or more blocks eight times
  • The Boilermakers hit .300 or better as a team 10 times with Anderson dishing out the attack, including four matches during Big Ten play and the most efficient match by Purdue in a Big Ten match since 2021 (.390% vs. #RV Minnesota)
  • Received Stacey Clark Classic All-Tournament Team recognition


HIGH SCHOOL

  • Ranked the No. 1 setter and No. 6 overall by PrepDig
  • PrepVolleyball No. 6 ranked Setter
  • Ranked the No. 38 overall recruit by PrepVolleyball
  • Helped her team win four championship titles including: 2022 Nike Tournament of Champions Southwest
  • As a senior, posted 794 assists and 267 digs
  • Named MVP Nike Tournament of Champions Southwest All Tournament.
  • As a junior, posted 748 assists and 314 digs
  • Named San Antonio Express News all Area.
  • As a sophomore, she was named San Antonio Express News All Area
  • As a freshman, she was named 28-6A Unanimous Newcomer of the Year
  • Received the Prep Volleyball Frosh 59 Highest Honorable Mention
  • With her club team, she placed fifth at the 2019 USAV Open
Taylor Anderson

Junior
2025

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Junior
2024-25

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Sophomore
2024

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Freshman
2023

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