Rutgers-Camden Athletics

Sofia Granieri paced the Scarlet Raptors with 228 kills and finished second with 251 digs during her big sophomore season. In 50 career matches over her two seasons, she owns 261 kills, 945 total attacks, 257 assists and 283 digs.
 
Academics: New Jersey Athletic Conference Academic Honorable Mention for the 2024-25 scholastic year…Member of the Rutgers-Camden Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and a Dean’s List student for the 2023 Fall, 2024 Spring, 2024 Fall and 2025 Spring semesters.
 
Volleyball 2024: Played in all 26 matches and 97 sets…Let the team with 228 kills and a 2.35/set average…Second on the team with 251 digs…Finished third on the team with 25 service aces…Added 11 assists and 11 assisted blocks…Collected six double-doubles with kills and digs, coming against DeSales (Aug. 31, 13 kills, 15 digs), SUNY-Brockport (the second match on Aug. 31, 15 kills, 10 digs), Neumann (Sept. 28, 17 kills, 10 digs), Arcadia (Sept. 28, 11 kills, 19 digs), New Jersey City University (Oct. 15, 14 kills, 13 digs) and Delaware Valley (Oct. 19, 10 kills, 13 digs)…Her .583 hitting percentage against Brockport (15 kills, one error in 24 attack attempts) is the 11th-highest single-match percentage in program history for all players with the minimum of 12 kills…Her 823 attack attempts rank sixth on the program’s single-season charts…Produced 10 matches with double-digit kills, with a high of 17 against Neumann (Sept. 28)…Had 14 matches with double-digit digs, including 19 against Arcadia (Sept. 28) and 18 against Gwynedd Mercy (Oct. 10)…Drilled seven service aces against Penn State-Brandywine (Sept. 8).
 
Volleyball 2023: Played in 81 sets over 23 matches…Finished second on the team in assists (246) and third in assists per set (3.04)…Added 32 digs, 25 blocks (two solo, 23 assisted) and 33 kills…Hit .172…Collected double-digit assists in 13 matches, with a high of 21 at Alvernia (Oct. 8)…Also added 18 assists against Messiah (Sept. 9) and William Paterson (Sept. 26), while collecting 17 assists against both Dickinson (Sept. 1) and Penn State-Harrisburg (Sept. 16)…Notched her high of three kills on six occasions, with the first time coming against Clarkson (Sept. 2), when she had three kills and no errors in seven attacks for a .429 hitting percentage…Also had three kills in three attacks for a perfect 1.000 hitting percentage against Trinity Washington (Sept. 23)…Had her high of three blocks (all assisted) against Rowan (Sept. 19)…Had three digs in four matches, including consecutive matches against Messiah and Haverford (both on Sept. 9) and at Ursinus (Sept. 12).
 
High School: Four-year varsity volleyball letterwinner for Coach Alexander Kish at Camden Catholic High School…All-Conference First Team for three years (sophomore through senior)…All-Conference Second Team as a freshman…Most Valuable Player as a junior…Best Defensive Player Award as a senior…National Honor Society as a junior and a senior…President of the Art Honors Society during her junior and senior years…Earned Distinguished Honors every quarter for all four years…Graduated in 2023.
 
Club Team: Eastern Volleyball Academy
 
Personal: Born October 11, 2004…Last name pronounced “gran-EAR-ee”…Hobbies include baking, painting, cooking and almost anything artistic…Also loves the environment and all things aquatic…Nursing major at Rutgers-Camden who plans to continue her studies after graduation to become a nurse anesthetist…Also wants to continue to coach young girls in volleyball…Sofia is the daughter of Michele and John Granieri of Westville.