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2025 Women's Volleyball Roster

Rachael Keating
Rachael Keating

21 Keyana Cruse

  • Position Outside Hitter
  • Height 6-1
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Highschool Bonner Springs HS
  • Hometown Bonner Springs, KS

Biography

2024 Senior:
  • Named to the All-OVC First Team for the second year in a row finishing the season with 519 kills and 463 digs
  • Set the WIU program record for kills in a season
  • Named OVC Player Of The Week five different times which is the most by a WIU Volleyball player since 2004
  • Set the single season program record for attack attempts with 1,522
  • Ranks fifth in program history for kills in a match recording 29 kills on August 31 vs Milwaukee.
2023 Junior: 
  • Named OVC All-Conference First Team
  • Named OVC Offensive Player of the Week on September 11th
  • Led the team kills (403), total attacks (1,254)…Third on the team in service aces with 25
  • Played and started 29 matches
  • Had a career high 24 kills against SEMO.
2021-22 Freshman and Sophomore (UNLV):
  • Played in 22 matches for UNLV
  • Combined for 39 kills and 21.5 blocks in two seasons for the Rebels
  • Named to the Deans list in 2022.
High School: 
  • A 2021 graduate of Bonner Springs High School in Bonner Springs, Kansas
  • Lettered four years in volleyball, two in swimming and one in both basketball and soccer
  • Helped the Braves to a total of 75 wins in four years on the court, including 43 combined victories off back-to-back 20-win seasons in 2019 (23-15) and 2020 (20-9)
  • Selected to the All-Frontier League First Team in both 2018 and 2019, and was the Max Preps/AVCA Kansas Player of the Week (Sept. 13)
  • As a junior, had 423 kills off .371 hitting efficiency with 277 digs, 35 total blocks and 25 aces
  • In the pool, rewrote a pair of Bonner Springs’ relay records during her sophomore season
  • National Honor Society member and four-year academic letter and scholar-athlete award recipient.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 21

    2023Junior

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    21
  • 21

    2024Senior

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    21
  • 21

    2025Graduate Student

    Outside Hitter
    6'1"
    21