{"id":315813,"date":"2026-05-14T19:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315813\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:05:13","slug":"volleyball-signs-utsa-setter-makenna-wiepert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315813\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLLEYBALL SIGNS UTSA SETTER MAKENNA WIEPERT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>SACRAMENTO &#8212; Sacramento State head volleyball coach <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/ruben-volta\/1450\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1450\" target=\"_blank\">Ruben Volta<\/a> announced today that UTSA setter Makenna Wiepert has transferred to play for the Hornets, and will enroll at the University this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wiepert, who spent three seasons at UTSA (medical redshirt in 2024), will have two years of eligibility at Sacramento State.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiepert File<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 A 5-foot-11 setter from Sherwood, Ore.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Spent the past three seasons (2023-25) at UTSA of the American Athletic Conference<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Helped set a 6-2 offense all three years with the Roadrunners<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 In three seasons at UTSA, she averaged 5.22 assists and 1.81 digs per set<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Tallied 51 kills, 799 assists, 42 aces and 277 digs during her career at UTSA<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Last season, she had seven matches with double-digit assists<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 As a sophomore (2024), she appeared in seven matches before suffering a season-ending injury<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Named to UTSA Invitational all-tournament team in 2024, while averaging 5.46 assists and 2.39 digs per set<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 As a freshman (2023), she split time as the starting setter, finishing with 6.09 assists and 1.60 digs per set<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Had four double-doubles, and received Honor Roll honors twice for conference player of the week<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 A 2023 graduate of Wilsonville High School in Wilsonville, Ore.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Led the Wildcats to four straight conference championships<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Was unanimous first team all-state, conference player of the year, and team captain as a senior<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Three-time all-conference selection<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Played club for Athena Volleyball Academy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; SACRAMENTO &#8212; Sacramento State head volleyball coach Ruben Volta announced today that UTSA setter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-315813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}