SMU Athletics

2017 (SR): Named to the All-American Athletic Conference First Team…Hit .233 with 3.00 kills per set in 63 sets…Missed significant time due to multiple injuries, playing in just 16 matches…Scored 189 kills, reaching double figures in nine of 16 matches played…Scored a season-high 21 kills with 12 digs against Mississippi State (8/25) for one of two double-doubles…Scored 10 kills with 12 digs at ECU (9/29)…Recorded 66 digs and 41 blocks.

2016 (JR): Named to AVCA All-Region First Team and All-American Athletic Conference First Team…Led the team and ranked fifth in The American with 461 kills, ranking fifth in a season at SMU and the most by an SMU player since 2006…Averaged 3.81 kills per set with a .251 attack percentage…Had at least 10 kills in 28 of 34 matches, including four matches with at least 20 kills…Scored a career-high 23 kills in three sets against Little Rock (8/27)…Had five double-doubles and a triple-double, scoring 22 kills with a 12 digs and 10 blocks against Tulane (10/30)…Also scored 16 kills with a career-high 17 digs at Tulane (9/30)…Scored 14 kills in NCAA Tournament win against Texas A&M (12/2) and had 11 kills against National Runner-Up Texas (12/3)…Finished with 197 digs and was second on the team with 97 blocks.

2015 (SO): Played in 111 sets, starting 27 of 32 matches played...Had 273 kills, hitting .227...Had at least 10 kills 12 times, including a career-high 13 twice, against Tulsa (9/30) and against USF (11/25)...Recorded a season-high seven blocks with 11 kills against then-No. 18 San Diego (9/12), and then posted seven blocks with 12 kills at UCF (10/16)...Third on the team with 83 total blocks...Also had 44 digs.

2014 (RS FR): Played in 20 sets over 10 matches with three starts...Hit .205 with 29 kills...Scored a season-high 11 kills twice, against Houston (10/10) and against Tulane (10/12)...Hit .750 with three kills in four attempts in one set against Houston Baptist (9/19)...Recorded eight blocks against Tulane (10/12), finishing the season with 19...Also had nine digs.

2013: Redshirted

HIGH SCHOOL: Five-year letterwinner for head coach Ronald Becker at Piedra Vista High School in Aztec, N.M....Earned first team All-State honors as a senior, and was an honorable mention as a junior...Led Piedra Vista to the State Championship game as a senior...Named first team All-District three times and was an honorable mention as a freshman...Received numerous All-Tournament honors, including MVP of the Tournament of Champions as a senior...Invited to the North-South All-Star Game...Named District 1-4A Player of the Year and Navajo Times Volleyball Player of the Year in 2012, and Daily Times Female Athlete of the Year in 2013...Served as a team captain as a sophomore and a senior...Also letter in track and basketball...Won the New Mexico State Championship in shotput and discus as a senior and was runner-up in shotput as a junior...Placed fourth in discus and sixth in shotput at a 13-state regional track meet...Member of the National Honor Society...Named to the Academic All-District team five times in all three sports...Graduated with honors in the top 10 of her class.

PERSONAL: Full name is Katherine Shea Hegarty...Daughter of Bryan and Stacy Hegarty...Has three siblings, Jason and Kris Runung and Matt Hegarty...Grandfather, Don Watkins, played running back at Missouri (1959-63), cousin, Ryley Hegarty, played quarterback at Brown (2007-11), and Matt is a center for the football team at Notre Dame...Favorite athlete is Kerri Walsh...Favorite actor is Will Ferrell...Major is Biomedical Engineering.