2020-21 (Senior) - Patriot League Volleyball Scholar-Athlete of the Year... All-Patriot League First Team selection for the third year in a row... Third straight Patriot League All-Academic Team honor... Team MVP... Named AU's Top Female Senior Student-Athlete of the Year... Posted her 1,000th career kill on March 12 in a three-set sweep of Lafayette, becoming only the 14th player in program history to achieve the feat... Finished her career with 1,079 kills to rank 12th all-time in program history. Her 5.75 points per set led all players in NCAA Division I, with her 5.11 kills per set ranking second in the nation... Named the Patriot League Player of the Week on March 15 after recording 24 kills in a three-set win, the most by a PL player in six years... Played in seven matches in a COVID-shortened season, getting 20 or more kills in six of those including a season-high 28 in the Eagles' season-opening win vs. Bucknell on March 5... Tallied two double-doubles (21 kills, 17 digs at Bucknell on March 7; 20 kills, 10 digs at Navy on March 28)... Added a season-high five blocks and a career-high four aces to her 28 kills vs. Bucknell on March 5.
2019 (Junior) - Named to both the Patriot League First Team and Patriot League All-Academic Team for a second year in a row… Also named to the Patriot League All-Tournament Team and to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll… Named the Patriot League Player of the Week on Nov. 11… Led AU in kills (386), ranked fourth in blocks (57) and fifth in digs (130)… Is 64 kills short of becoming the 14th Eagle with 1,000 career kills… Ranked sixth in the Patriot League with 3.3 kills per set... Posted a career-high 34 kills in four sets vs. Hartford, the most kills by any Patriot League player in a match in 2019... Had 21 matches with double figures in kills and five double-doubles... Named to the Preseason All-Patriot League Team and the DC Challenge All-Tournament Team.
2018 (Sophomore) - First Team All-Patriot League... Academic All-Patriot League... Made PL All-Tournament Team after 17 kills vs. Colgate in semifinal and 11 vs. Navy in championship (28-9-84, .226)... Finished second on team in kills (318), kills per set (2.74 was 9th in PL)... Posted season-high in kills twice, 21 at George Washington (8/25) and 9/30 vs. Navy... Had two of AU's three matches with 20 kills (Kazala, 21 at Lehigh)... Led or tied for team-high in kills seven times (last with 17 in PL semifinal)... Had 16 matches with double figures in kills, including last four of season and six of her last seven... Nine matches with at least 3 blocks... Career-high 6 blocks (0-6) at Loyola on 10/27... Matched career-high with 6 digs in PL final vs. Navy... Started 26 of 33 matches for Eagles... Member of Denmark’s National Team that played Summer 2018 in European Championships.
2018 (Preseason) - Member of Denmark’s National Team that played Summer 2018 in European Championships.
2017 (Freshman) - Second Team All-Patriot League… Patriot League Rookie of the Week on 9/11 after 32 kills in two matches at Spartan Spiketacular at UNC Greensboro… Had 10 matches with double figures in kills, including both in Patriot League Tournament… Season-high 19 came vs. Coastal Carolina (9/9) in UNCG Tourney… Also had season-high 44 swings in that match… Hit .727 (9-1-11) vs. Delaware State (10/4) for best of year… At least 9 kills in seven of the last 10 matches of the season, including five in double figures… Hit .380 during Eagles’ 18-match winning streak… Finished second on team (Kazala) 224 kills… Third on team with 62 blocks… Had 11 matches with at least 3 blocks, the last coming in NCAA Tourney at BYU (12/1)… Two matches with at least 5 blocks, led by season-best 6 vs. Princeton (9/15)… Led or tied for team lead in kills 3 times, in blocks 6 times… Had four starts as a freshman among her 31 appearances… Patriot League Academic Honor Roll pick.
Before AU - Attended Ikast-Brande Gymnasium... Played for Ikast KFUM Volleyball Club... Club won the Danish U-16 championship in 2014 and the U-18 title in 2016.
Personal - Daughter of Gudrun and Johannes Elbaek... Siblings are Soren and Christian... Right-handed hitter... Majoring in biology.
