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Jersey Number 12
Taryn Kloth
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Sioux Falls, S.D.
- High School:
- O'Gorman
Bio
Taryn Kloth, Creighton's First Female Olympian (July 12, 2024)
Awards & Honors
2015-16Â Â Â BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2015-16   Dean’s List
2016Â Â Â AVCA First Team All-East Region
2016Â Â Â AVCA Honorable Mention All-American
2016Â Â Â Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team
2016Â Â Â First Team All-BIG EAST
2016Â Â Â PrepVolleyball.com Honorable Mention All-American
2016-17Â Â Â BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2016-17   Dean’s List
2017Â Â Â All-BIG EAST Tournament Team
2017Â Â Â AVCA Honorable Mention All-East Region
2017Â Â Â BIG EAST Tournament MVP
2017Â Â Â Kansas Invitational All-Tournament Team
2017Â Â Â Preseason All-BIG EAST Team
2017Â Â Â Second Team All-BIG EAST
2017-18Â Â Â BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2017-18   Dean’s List
2018Â Â Â All-BIG EAST Tournament Team
2018Â Â Â AVCA First Team All-East Region
2018Â Â Â AVCA Honorable Mention All-American
2018Â Â Â BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week, 9/25
2018Â Â Â Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team
2018Â Â Â CoSIDA Academic All-District 7 First Team
2018Â Â Â CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American
2018Â Â Â First Team All-BIG EAST
2018Â Â Â Preseason All-BIG EAST Team
2018Â Â Â Senior CLASS Award Candidate (30)
2018Â Â Â Senior CLASS Award Finalist (10)
2018Â Â Â Senior CLASS Award Second Team All-American
2018Â Â Â Trojan Invitational All-Tournament Team
2018: Senior at Creighton
• Unanimous First Team All-BIG EAST pick in 2018.
• Also named First Team All-East Region and Honorable Mention All-American by the AVCA.
• One of 10 Senior CLASS Award finalists, and a Second Team Senior CLASS All-American.
• Named to All-Tournament Team at the BIG EAST Championship after averaging 4.43 kills per set.
• In eight matches against ranked teams this fall, averaged 4.67 kills per set (19.25 kills/match) on .271 hitting.
• Ranks fourth in CU history with 1,427 career kills, and her 490 kills set CU’s single-season record for a senior.
• BIG EAST Player of the Week on Sept. 24 and again on Nov. 20.
• Second in the BIG EAST in kills per set (4.15) and points per set (4.63), 11th in hitting percentage (.283) and 20th in aces per set (0.24).
• Became the 14th player in Creighton history to reach 1,000 career kills in the first set on Aug. 31 vs. NC State in her 104th career match.
• Posted 17 kills and seven digs in a 3-2 win over No. 5 Kentucky (Aug. 24).
• Produced (then-) career-high 25 kills on .279 hitting at No. 10 USC (Aug. 25), helping her land a spot on the Trojan Invitational All-Tournament Team.
• Pounded a career-high 26 kills on .500 hitting and added five digs and four blocks vs. No. 7 Nebraska (Sept. 6).
• Had 23 kills and eight digs vs. Iowa State (Sept. 7), then added career-high four aces in addition to 15 kills vs. Wichita State (Sept. 9) to earn Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team recognition.
• Slammed 23 kills on .273 hitting at No. 8 Illinois (Sept. 15).
• Hit .464 with 16 kills in 3-0 win over No. 21 Marquette (Sept. 23).
• Tied career-high with 26 kills and a career-best 17 digs at Butler (Sept. 28), including 14 digs in the final two sets to match BU’s team totals.
• Had 17 kills in CU’s 3-1 win at No. 18 Marquette (Oct. 26).
• Hit .609 with 15 kills in 3-0 win over Georgetown (Nov. 9).
• Had 19 kills in BIG EAST Tournament final win vs. No. 16 Marquette (Nov. 24).
• Hit season-high .696 in NCAA Tournament win vs. South Dakota (Nov. 30).
• Named First Team All-BIG EAST as a sophomore and a Second Team selection last fall, and also Most Valuable Player of the 2017 BIG EAST Championship.
• Spent 11 days in China this summer with the U.S. Collegiate National Team.
• Will graduate in 3.5 years in December (Finance) and will play beach volleyball in the spring at LSU.
• First name rhymes with “Karen” and last name rhymes with “both”.
Summer 2018: USA Volleyball
• Spent 11 days in China with USA Volleyball’s Collegiate National Team.
• Team won 4-of-5 matches.
2017: Junior at Creighton
• Averaged 3.00 kills and 1.03 digs on .270 hitting in 33 matches, including eight starts.
• Named 2017 BIG EAST Championship MVP after 28 kills (and just one error) in 81 swings over two matches, hitting .333.
• Second Team All-BIG EAST at the end of the season after earning Preseason All-BIG EAST acclaim in August.
• Ranked 12th in kills per set, 14th in points per set and 15th in hitting percentage in the BIG EAST.
• Tied for team-high honors with 16 kills in win at No. 3 Washington (Aug. 26), hitting .389.
• Owned 10 kills and six digs in win over UNI (Sept. 2) to clinch Bluejay Invitational title.
• Named to All-Tournament Team at Kansas Invitational after 32 kills on .303 hitting in three matches (Sept. 9).
• Hit .733 with 11 kills in 15 swings in sweep over Belmont (Sept. 8).
• Owned a team-high 15 kills vs. No. 19 Iowa State (Sept. 16).
• Hit .542 while earning first career double-double with 15 kills and a career-high 10 digs vs. Georgetown (Sept. 22).
• Hit .469 with 16 kills in sweep at St. John’s (Sept. 30), including nine kills in third set.
• Collected 18 kills while hitting .357 in a win vs. Butler (Oct. 13).
• Finished with 12 kills on .545 hitting in sweep of Seton Hall (Oct. 22).
• Tallied 12 kills on .524 hitting in 3-0 win vs. DePaul (Nov. 5).
• Had a season-high with 19 kills and five blocks in 3-2 win at Butler that clinched BIG EAST regular-season title (Nov. 12).
• Recorded 14 kills and three straight aces in 3-2 win at Georgetown (Nov. 18).
• Hit .483 with 14 kills in 29 errorless swings vs. Villanova (Nov. 24).
• Notched second career double-double in BIG EAST Championship final win at Marquette (Nov. 25), finishing with 14 kills and 10 digs.
• Finished season with 10 kills, four blocks and .391 hitting in NCAA Tournament match vs. No. 12 Michigan State (Dec. 1).
• Owned seven or more kills in each of the last 17 matches.
Summer 2017: USA Volleyball
• Spent time with the U.S. Volleyball Collegiate National Team-Minneapolis, playing in three matches.
• In those matches, she had 16, 10 and 13 kills to rank third among all players at the event with 39 kills, and was the only one of 36 USA Volleyball participants to have 10 or more kills in each match.
2016: Sophomore at Creighton
• Averaged 3.20 kills on .277 hitting while starting 17-of-36 matches.
• Named Honorable Mention All-American by both the AVCA and PrepVolleyball.com.
• First Team All-BIG EAST.
• First Team All-East Region by the AVCA.
• Ranked ninth in the BIG EAST in kills per set, eighth in points per set and 18th in hitting percentage.
• Put a team-best 95.8 percent of her 383 serves in play, including a streak of 140 straight at one point from Sept. 10-Oct. 14.
• Had 10 kills, three blocks and one ace in season-opener vs. Wichita State (Aug. 27).
• Posted a career-high 23 kills at USC
(Sept. 3), seven more than her previous high. Also had seven digs against the Trojans.
• Elevated her game to another level in 32 matches after moving to the left side, averaging 3.35 kills per set on .285 hitting in that time.
• Averaged 11.84 kills per match in those 32 contests, after entering that stretch with 10 or more kills in five of first 34 career matches.
• Finished match vs. No. 4 Kansas with 15 kills, four digs and four blocks (Sept. 8).
• Hit .400 and had 17 kills in 3-0 win over Chattanooga (Sept. 10).
• Buried 20 kills in 3-1 win at Villanova, hitting .457 (Oct. 7).
• Hit .526 with 10 kills vs. Butler (Nov. 4), then followed up with 16 kills on .419 hitting vs. Xavier (Nov. 6).
• Hit .560 with 14 kills and no errors in 25 swings during a 3-0 sweep over Providence (Nov. 11), adding two aces and four digs.
• Had 16 kills and hit .577 in 3-0 sweep of Georgetown (Nov. 18).
• Owned 16 kills in Sweet 16 triumph over No. 17 Michigan (Dec. 9) to help team advance to first Elite Eight.
2015: Freshman at Creighton
• Started 11 of the 30 matches she played in, hitting .216 and averaging 1.86 kills and 0.72 blocks per set.
• Missed the first two weekends of the year with a broken foot she suffered in late July as team went 2-4 without her (and 25-5 with her).
• Owned four matches with 10 or more kills.
• Collected 11 kills and five blocks vs. Seton Hall on Sept. 25.
• Pounded a season-high 16 kills in comeback victory over DePaul on Oct. 9.
• Blocked career-high nine attacks and added eight kills in a 3-2 win at Georgetown (Nov. 20).
• Hit .400 with nine kills in 20 swings in NCAA Tournament debut vs. Coastal Carolina (Dec. 4).
• Team was 11-0 when she started, 18-1 when she hit .168 or better, and 19-2 when she owned five or more kills.
• Named to Creighton’s Dean’s List and to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team.
O’Gorman High School
• Led O’Gorman to the state title as a senior while amassing 558 kills, 314 digs and 90 blocks.
• Averaged 4.40 kills, 2.74 digs, .68 blocks and .47 aces per set during her high school career.
• Led Class AA in hitting percentage, second in kills, third in kills per set and 16th in blocks as a senior.
• Owns school records for kills in a match (31), season (558) and career (1,187), attack attempts in a season (1,116) and career (2,833) and attack percentage in a season (.418).
• Ranked 18th on PrepVolleyball.com’s Senior Aces list, believed to be South Dakota’s highest-ranked player ever, the state’s first Top 50 player in a decade, and Creighton’s highest-ranked recruit under Kirsten Bernthal Booth.
• South Dakota’s Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior and State Tournament MVP as a junior and senior.
• First Team All-State as a junior and senior and Second Team
All-State as a sophomore.
• Recognized by Under Armour as a 2014-15 Second Team
All-American.
• Named All-American at AAU Nationals after helping her team to a fifth-place finish.
• Had 22 kills and 17 digs in the District 1AA championship game to qualify for state her senior year.
• Team won state as a junior, as she had 20 kills and 10 digs in the final.
• Had 17 kills and 17 digs in state semifinal win, after posting 18 kills and 13 digs in the 2013 quarterfinals.
• Had 311 kills, 167 digs, 31 blocks and 27 aces while hitting .360 as a junior and helping team to first state title since 2002.
• Team finished fifth at state as both a freshman and sophomore.
• Coached by Mitch Linning in club volleyball and by Julie Kolbeck in high school.
Personal
• Birthday is April 10.
• Parents are Mike and Janna Kloth and Tracy and Tricia Smith.
• Has siblings Sierra (22), Grant (16), Rhett (13), Braxton (10), Jack (10), Lauryn (10) and Londyn (9).
• Is a finance major.
• Nickname is “T”.
• Favorite professor is Dr. Wingender.
• Best volleyball memory is playing in the 2016 Elite Eight.
• Sports heroes are Jordan Larson and Kim Hill.
• Favorite win last season was the victory in the BIG EAST Championship over Marquette.
• Chose Creighton because the people make it feel like home.
• Wears the number 12 because she dislikes odd numbers.
Awards & Honors
2015-16Â Â Â BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2015-16   Dean’s List
2016Â Â Â AVCA First Team All-East Region
2016Â Â Â AVCA Honorable Mention All-American
2016Â Â Â Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team
2016Â Â Â First Team All-BIG EAST
2016Â Â Â PrepVolleyball.com Honorable Mention All-American
2016-17Â Â Â BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2016-17   Dean’s List
2017Â Â Â All-BIG EAST Tournament Team
2017Â Â Â AVCA Honorable Mention All-East Region
2017Â Â Â BIG EAST Tournament MVP
2017Â Â Â Kansas Invitational All-Tournament Team
2017Â Â Â Preseason All-BIG EAST Team
2017Â Â Â Second Team All-BIG EAST
2017-18Â Â Â BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2017-18   Dean’s List
2018Â Â Â All-BIG EAST Tournament Team
2018Â Â Â AVCA First Team All-East Region
2018Â Â Â AVCA Honorable Mention All-American
2018Â Â Â BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week, 9/25
2018Â Â Â Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team
2018Â Â Â CoSIDA Academic All-District 7 First Team
2018Â Â Â CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American
2018Â Â Â First Team All-BIG EAST
2018Â Â Â Preseason All-BIG EAST Team
2018Â Â Â Senior CLASS Award Candidate (30)
2018Â Â Â Senior CLASS Award Finalist (10)
2018Â Â Â Senior CLASS Award Second Team All-American
2018Â Â Â Trojan Invitational All-Tournament Team
2018: Senior at Creighton
• Unanimous First Team All-BIG EAST pick in 2018.
• Also named First Team All-East Region and Honorable Mention All-American by the AVCA.
• One of 10 Senior CLASS Award finalists, and a Second Team Senior CLASS All-American.
• Named to All-Tournament Team at the BIG EAST Championship after averaging 4.43 kills per set.
• In eight matches against ranked teams this fall, averaged 4.67 kills per set (19.25 kills/match) on .271 hitting.
• Ranks fourth in CU history with 1,427 career kills, and her 490 kills set CU’s single-season record for a senior.
• BIG EAST Player of the Week on Sept. 24 and again on Nov. 20.
• Second in the BIG EAST in kills per set (4.15) and points per set (4.63), 11th in hitting percentage (.283) and 20th in aces per set (0.24).
• Became the 14th player in Creighton history to reach 1,000 career kills in the first set on Aug. 31 vs. NC State in her 104th career match.
• Posted 17 kills and seven digs in a 3-2 win over No. 5 Kentucky (Aug. 24).
• Produced (then-) career-high 25 kills on .279 hitting at No. 10 USC (Aug. 25), helping her land a spot on the Trojan Invitational All-Tournament Team.
• Pounded a career-high 26 kills on .500 hitting and added five digs and four blocks vs. No. 7 Nebraska (Sept. 6).
• Had 23 kills and eight digs vs. Iowa State (Sept. 7), then added career-high four aces in addition to 15 kills vs. Wichita State (Sept. 9) to earn Bluejay Invitational All-Tournament Team recognition.
• Slammed 23 kills on .273 hitting at No. 8 Illinois (Sept. 15).
• Hit .464 with 16 kills in 3-0 win over No. 21 Marquette (Sept. 23).
• Tied career-high with 26 kills and a career-best 17 digs at Butler (Sept. 28), including 14 digs in the final two sets to match BU’s team totals.
• Had 17 kills in CU’s 3-1 win at No. 18 Marquette (Oct. 26).
• Hit .609 with 15 kills in 3-0 win over Georgetown (Nov. 9).
• Had 19 kills in BIG EAST Tournament final win vs. No. 16 Marquette (Nov. 24).
• Hit season-high .696 in NCAA Tournament win vs. South Dakota (Nov. 30).
• Named First Team All-BIG EAST as a sophomore and a Second Team selection last fall, and also Most Valuable Player of the 2017 BIG EAST Championship.
• Spent 11 days in China this summer with the U.S. Collegiate National Team.
• Will graduate in 3.5 years in December (Finance) and will play beach volleyball in the spring at LSU.
• First name rhymes with “Karen” and last name rhymes with “both”.
Summer 2018: USA Volleyball
• Spent 11 days in China with USA Volleyball’s Collegiate National Team.
• Team won 4-of-5 matches.
2017: Junior at Creighton
• Averaged 3.00 kills and 1.03 digs on .270 hitting in 33 matches, including eight starts.
• Named 2017 BIG EAST Championship MVP after 28 kills (and just one error) in 81 swings over two matches, hitting .333.
• Second Team All-BIG EAST at the end of the season after earning Preseason All-BIG EAST acclaim in August.
• Ranked 12th in kills per set, 14th in points per set and 15th in hitting percentage in the BIG EAST.
• Tied for team-high honors with 16 kills in win at No. 3 Washington (Aug. 26), hitting .389.
• Owned 10 kills and six digs in win over UNI (Sept. 2) to clinch Bluejay Invitational title.
• Named to All-Tournament Team at Kansas Invitational after 32 kills on .303 hitting in three matches (Sept. 9).
• Hit .733 with 11 kills in 15 swings in sweep over Belmont (Sept. 8).
• Owned a team-high 15 kills vs. No. 19 Iowa State (Sept. 16).
• Hit .542 while earning first career double-double with 15 kills and a career-high 10 digs vs. Georgetown (Sept. 22).
• Hit .469 with 16 kills in sweep at St. John’s (Sept. 30), including nine kills in third set.
• Collected 18 kills while hitting .357 in a win vs. Butler (Oct. 13).
• Finished with 12 kills on .545 hitting in sweep of Seton Hall (Oct. 22).
• Tallied 12 kills on .524 hitting in 3-0 win vs. DePaul (Nov. 5).
• Had a season-high with 19 kills and five blocks in 3-2 win at Butler that clinched BIG EAST regular-season title (Nov. 12).
• Recorded 14 kills and three straight aces in 3-2 win at Georgetown (Nov. 18).
• Hit .483 with 14 kills in 29 errorless swings vs. Villanova (Nov. 24).
• Notched second career double-double in BIG EAST Championship final win at Marquette (Nov. 25), finishing with 14 kills and 10 digs.
• Finished season with 10 kills, four blocks and .391 hitting in NCAA Tournament match vs. No. 12 Michigan State (Dec. 1).
• Owned seven or more kills in each of the last 17 matches.
Summer 2017: USA Volleyball
• Spent time with the U.S. Volleyball Collegiate National Team-Minneapolis, playing in three matches.
• In those matches, she had 16, 10 and 13 kills to rank third among all players at the event with 39 kills, and was the only one of 36 USA Volleyball participants to have 10 or more kills in each match.
2016: Sophomore at Creighton
• Averaged 3.20 kills on .277 hitting while starting 17-of-36 matches.
• Named Honorable Mention All-American by both the AVCA and PrepVolleyball.com.
• First Team All-BIG EAST.
• First Team All-East Region by the AVCA.
• Ranked ninth in the BIG EAST in kills per set, eighth in points per set and 18th in hitting percentage.
• Put a team-best 95.8 percent of her 383 serves in play, including a streak of 140 straight at one point from Sept. 10-Oct. 14.
• Had 10 kills, three blocks and one ace in season-opener vs. Wichita State (Aug. 27).
• Posted a career-high 23 kills at USC
(Sept. 3), seven more than her previous high. Also had seven digs against the Trojans.
• Elevated her game to another level in 32 matches after moving to the left side, averaging 3.35 kills per set on .285 hitting in that time.
• Averaged 11.84 kills per match in those 32 contests, after entering that stretch with 10 or more kills in five of first 34 career matches.
• Finished match vs. No. 4 Kansas with 15 kills, four digs and four blocks (Sept. 8).
• Hit .400 and had 17 kills in 3-0 win over Chattanooga (Sept. 10).
• Buried 20 kills in 3-1 win at Villanova, hitting .457 (Oct. 7).
• Hit .526 with 10 kills vs. Butler (Nov. 4), then followed up with 16 kills on .419 hitting vs. Xavier (Nov. 6).
• Hit .560 with 14 kills and no errors in 25 swings during a 3-0 sweep over Providence (Nov. 11), adding two aces and four digs.
• Had 16 kills and hit .577 in 3-0 sweep of Georgetown (Nov. 18).
• Owned 16 kills in Sweet 16 triumph over No. 17 Michigan (Dec. 9) to help team advance to first Elite Eight.
2015: Freshman at Creighton
• Started 11 of the 30 matches she played in, hitting .216 and averaging 1.86 kills and 0.72 blocks per set.
• Missed the first two weekends of the year with a broken foot she suffered in late July as team went 2-4 without her (and 25-5 with her).
• Owned four matches with 10 or more kills.
• Collected 11 kills and five blocks vs. Seton Hall on Sept. 25.
• Pounded a season-high 16 kills in comeback victory over DePaul on Oct. 9.
• Blocked career-high nine attacks and added eight kills in a 3-2 win at Georgetown (Nov. 20).
• Hit .400 with nine kills in 20 swings in NCAA Tournament debut vs. Coastal Carolina (Dec. 4).
• Team was 11-0 when she started, 18-1 when she hit .168 or better, and 19-2 when she owned five or more kills.
• Named to Creighton’s Dean’s List and to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team.
O’Gorman High School
• Led O’Gorman to the state title as a senior while amassing 558 kills, 314 digs and 90 blocks.
• Averaged 4.40 kills, 2.74 digs, .68 blocks and .47 aces per set during her high school career.
• Led Class AA in hitting percentage, second in kills, third in kills per set and 16th in blocks as a senior.
• Owns school records for kills in a match (31), season (558) and career (1,187), attack attempts in a season (1,116) and career (2,833) and attack percentage in a season (.418).
• Ranked 18th on PrepVolleyball.com’s Senior Aces list, believed to be South Dakota’s highest-ranked player ever, the state’s first Top 50 player in a decade, and Creighton’s highest-ranked recruit under Kirsten Bernthal Booth.
• South Dakota’s Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior and State Tournament MVP as a junior and senior.
• First Team All-State as a junior and senior and Second Team
All-State as a sophomore.
• Recognized by Under Armour as a 2014-15 Second Team
All-American.
• Named All-American at AAU Nationals after helping her team to a fifth-place finish.
• Had 22 kills and 17 digs in the District 1AA championship game to qualify for state her senior year.
• Team won state as a junior, as she had 20 kills and 10 digs in the final.
• Had 17 kills and 17 digs in state semifinal win, after posting 18 kills and 13 digs in the 2013 quarterfinals.
• Had 311 kills, 167 digs, 31 blocks and 27 aces while hitting .360 as a junior and helping team to first state title since 2002.
• Team finished fifth at state as both a freshman and sophomore.
• Coached by Mitch Linning in club volleyball and by Julie Kolbeck in high school.
Personal
• Birthday is April 10.
• Parents are Mike and Janna Kloth and Tracy and Tricia Smith.
• Has siblings Sierra (22), Grant (16), Rhett (13), Braxton (10), Jack (10), Lauryn (10) and Londyn (9).
• Is a finance major.
• Nickname is “T”.
• Favorite professor is Dr. Wingender.
• Best volleyball memory is playing in the 2016 Elite Eight.
• Sports heroes are Jordan Larson and Kim Hill.
• Favorite win last season was the victory in the BIG EAST Championship over Marquette.
• Chose Creighton because the people make it feel like home.
• Wears the number 12 because she dislikes odd numbers.
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