Saint Joseph's University

Career Honors

2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Volleyball Third Team

3x CACC All-Academic Team (2016, 2017, 2018)

2x D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award (2016-17; 2017-18)

2018 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Volleyball Team

2018 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Volleyball Team

8x Dean's List Honors

Eight 4.0 GPA Semesters

Career-Highs

Kills: 12 (6x)

Assists: 3 (vs. Felician, 10/31/15)

Aces: 5 (2x)

Digs: 7 (vs. Holy Family, 10/13/15)

Blocks: 7 (at Nyack, 10/6/18) (USciences Single-Match Record for Three-Set Match (25-Point Format))

2018 (Match-by-Match): Witmer appeared in all 27 matches and played in all 86 sets her senior season. She led the team in both blocks per set (.75) and hitting percentage (.235), ranking in the top-12 of the CACC in both categories. Her 52 block assists were sixth in the program’s single-season annals, and she was also second on the team with .34 service aces per set and third with 1.95 kills per set. The senior ends her career tied for fourth in program history with 151 career block assists, sixth with a .192 hitting percentage, ninth with 219 total blocks, and 10th all-time with 601 kills.

• Closed out her career by tying her career-high of 12 kills on .360 hitting and leading all players with five blocks and a career-best five aces on Senior Day against Wilmington. Moved into a tie for fourth in program history with 151 career block assists and became the 10th Devil to reach 600 career kills.  (11/3)
• Became the ninth player in program history to reach 200 career blocks in match against Chestnut Hill (10/13)
• Tallied five kills on .556 hitting, to go along with a career-best five service aces and match-high two blocks in sweep of Bowie State. One of those blocks was a block assist, which moved her into sixth in program history with 135 for her career. (10/10)
• Moved into a tie for 10th in program history with a record-setting performance at Nyack, tying Cady Rich's eight-year-old program record with a career-high seven blocks in a three-set match (25-point format). She had five block assists, one shy of tying another program record, and two block solos to tie finish the afteroon with 193 career blocks (10/6)
• Tied her career-high with 12 kills, the fifth time in her career, on an efficient .524 hitting percentage (9/29)
• Led the match with a new career-high four service acees, and added nine blocks and three blocks in win over Concordia (9/25)
• Became the 10th player in program history to reach 100 career block assists in the season-opener against East Stroudsburg, and added three more against Merrimack to end the day ninth all-time (8/25)

2017 (Match-by-Match): Witmer appeared in all 74 sets, over 23 matches, for USciences in 2017. She led the Devils with 0.82 blocks per set, which ranked eighth in the CACC. She also led the team with a .176 hitting percentage, and was third at 1.73 kills per set. 

• Tied her career-best with three solo blocks at Goldey-Beacom (11/8)
• Matched a career-best for a three set match with a match-high 10 kills on .444 hitting vs. Nyack (10/31)
• Led all players as she matched her career-best with 12 kills on .409 hitting in five set win at Concordia (10/14
• For the third time in four matches, matched her career-high with a team-best five blocks while also leading the Devils by matching her season-high with seven kills vs. Georgian Court (10/6)
• Matched her career-high for the second time in three matches as she led all players with five total blocks vs. Wilmington (10/3)
• Led the match vs. Jefferson with five total blocks and three solo blocks, both of which tied a career-high. Added five kills on a team-high .250 hitting (9/27)...Matched her season-high with seven kills on .211 hitting and added a season-high four block assists to lead USciences in both categories at Post (9/23)
• Match-high five blocks in sweep of Dominican were a new career-high (9/13)
• Career-high four services aces to go along with five kills in season-opening sweep of Cheyney (9/1)

2016 (Match-by-Match):

2015 (Match-by-Match): 

Prior to USciences: 

• Four year player from Manheim Central High School
• Lancaster-Lebanon League First Team All-Star
• Team was Section II Lancaster Lebanon League Champions
• Earned Senior Academic Lancaster-Lebanon League Award
• Team Scholar Athlete Award Winner
• Academically earned President’s Education Award and was named to Barons Best and Brightest
• Played Club ball for Spooky Nook Volleyball Academy.

Personal: 

• Youngest of two children of Dale and Sherrie Witmer
• Father Dale was a member of the George Mason men’s volleyball team that reached the NCAA final Four in 1984 and again in 1985. He also holds the GMU all-time record for assists in a match with 118
• Chose USciences for the opportunity to be a part of the volleyball team and for its highly reputable pharmacy program, as well as its small campus environment ideal location
• Plans to pursue a career in pharmacy after graduation