As a Senior (2017): Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll...Senior CLASS Award First Team All-American…AVCA Honorable Mention All-American…VolleyballMag.com Honorable Mention All-American…PrepVolleyball.com Honorable Mention All-American…First Lady Topper in program history to earn four All-American nods in one season…Three-peated as the Conference USA Setter of the Year…AVCA All-Region Team…C-USA All-Tournament Team selection…C-USA First Team All-Conference…C-USA All-Academic Team Selection…Six-time C-USA Setter of the Week…Set C-USA record for career weekly awards with 18…VolleyMob National Player of the Week Honorable Mention (Sept. 19)…Buckeye Invitational All-Tournament Team…Miami (OH) Invitational All-Tournament Team…Preseason All-Conference…10 double-double showings to bring career total to 38…WKU Volleyball career assist record holder with 5,338 career assists…Achieved her 1,000th career digs on Sept. 9…Finished 9th on WKU’s career block assists list with 251…Started all 35 matches and played in all 120 sets…Closed career with 478 career sets played and 138 matches…Led WKU in assists in all 35 matches…Led WKU in digs in six matches…Led WKU in blocks in four matches…Averaged 11.03 assists/set, which ranked fourth in C-USA and 29th in the nation…1,323 assists in 2017 ranked second in C-USA and 20th in the nation…Season-best assist mark came in C-USA opener at Florida Atlantic with 59 helpers…Averaged a .362 attack rate with 158 kills on 356 attempts…Posted 22 aces…271 digs for 2.26 digs/set on the season…59,0 blocks on the year with 4 solo blocks and 55 assist blocks…Tallied a kill, an assist and a dig in all but one match for WKU…Tied for third on WKU’s career assists/set list with 11.17, sharing the spot with Melanie Stutsman (2010-13)…Career hitting percentage of .345 ties for 6th-best in WKU Volleyball history.
As a Junior (2016): Picked up Honorable Mention All-America Honor from both the AVCA and PrepVolleyball.com...Repeated as the Conference USA Setter of the Year...AVCA All-South Region Team...C-USA First-Team All-Conference...C-USA Preseason Player of the Year...C-USA Preseason All-Conference...Collected a C-USA single-season record seven Setter of the Week awards...Holiday Inn - University Plaza Invitational All-Tournament Team...C-USA Academic All-Conference Team...C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll...Name Team MVP...Team-best 13 double doubles on the year...Registered WKU's first 20/20 double double (43 assists, 22 digs; 9/16) since Tara Thomas in 2001...Recorded her 4,000th career assist on Dec. 2 against Boise State...Sits in sixth on WKU's career assist list with 4,015 after three seasons...1,280 assists in 110 sets across 31 matches...11.64 assists/set ties for 10th on the program's single-season list and also led Conference USA...11.64 assists/set ranked sixth across the NCAA...Faciliated the WKU offense to a .310 hitting percentage, the second-best mark in the country...Notched a career-best 63 assists in WKU's C-USA Tournament Championship match win over Rice...13 double-digit dig outings...Finished with 298 digs on the season...69.0 total blocks (8 solo, 61 assist)...150 kills and a .362 hitting percentage...Recorded 14 service aces.
As a Sophomore (2015): Started all 36 matches for WKU as a sophomore and played in every set (125)...Led both WKU and Conference USA and ranked 13th nationally with 1,397 total assists…Led Conference USA and ranked 25thnationally with a 11.18 assist per set average…Led a WKU team that paced C-USA and ranked 14th nationally with a 13.52 assists/set average…Paced the Lady Toppers with 14 double-double efforts…Tallied 172 total kills (1.38/set)…Notched a season-high 10 kills to go with 30 assists and five digs in WKU’s 3-0 victory over Arizona in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament…Totaled nine kills against Marshall in the first game of the C-USA Tournament…Ranked third on the team with 26 service aces (0.21/set)…Season-best three aces at UTSA in the championship match of the C-USA Tournament…Second on the team with 318 digs (2.54/set)…Had a season-best 18 digs against College of Charleston (8/29)…Tallied 16 digs against Southern Illinois (9/5) and at Rice (10/31)…Third on the team with 69 total blocks (0.55/set)...Tallied a season-best seven total blocks against Marshall (11/20)…Helped WKU to a C-USA best .294 team hitting clip that ranked sixth nationally…Was a Preseason All-C-USA Selection…Tallied three 50+ assist matches, including a career-high 56 at North Texas (11/18)…Totaled 54 assists in WKU’s C-USA tournament title match with UTSA…Against UTSA on Oct. 9, Lucas tallied 53 assists…Was named C-USA’s Setter of the Week three times…Named to the Holiday Inn University Plaza Invitational All-Tournament Team…Named Conference USA’s Setter of the Year…Notched C-USA First Team All-Conference honors for the second year in a row…Earned MVP honors of the 2015 Conference USA Tournament…Garnered both AVCA All-Region and AVCA All-America Honorable Mention All American for the second consecutive season...Invited to the U.S. National Team Tryouts at the Olympic Training Center.
As a Freshman (2014): Named an AVCA All-America Honorable Mention and All-Region honoree...Garnered C-USA All-Tournament accolades...Named C-USA First-Team All-Conference and All-Freshman honoree...Named C-USA Setter of the Week twice...A mid-year enrollee for WKU (January 2014)...Ranked 42nd in the nation in assists per set with 10.88, which ranked third in C-USA, as she helped WKU rank 12th nationally in hitting percentage, 28th in kills per set and 32nd in assists per set...Ranked 18th in the nation with 1,338 total assists...Third on the team with a .316 hitting mark to rank in the top 10 of the leauge...Finished the season with 166 kills and 85 blocks...Ranked second in the league with 11.62 assists/set during C-USA games while sixth in hitting percentage with a .350 clip...Tallied first career double-double with 30 assists and 18 digs against Incarnate Word...Posted five kills, a hitting percentage of .625 and 34 assists in a win over Oral Roberts...Had a season-high 42 assists in a win over Milwaukee...In the win against No. 8 Purdue, went for double-double of 44 assists and 10 digs while adding seven kills and four blocks...Earned a .667 attack percentage and recorded two aces in the Tennessee Tech game...Had 38 assists, 11 digs and three blocks against LA Tech... Recorded double-double of 10 kills and 50 assists to go with three blocks and six digs against Rice...Had back-to-back double-doubles with 47 assists and 13 digs against North Texas and 41 assists and 10 digs against UTSA...One kill shy of triple-double with 47 assists, 12 digs and nine kills against Florida Atlantic in Bowling Green...Had 45 assists and 17 digs to go with three blocks at Southern Miss...Tallied 39 assists and 12 digs in sweep at Marshall...Had 41 assists, nine digs and three blocks in win over Middle Tennessee...Posted double-double of 38 assists and 10 digs in C-USA Tourney win over Florida Atlantic...Had 49 assists, nine digs, five kills and five blocks in Championship Match vs. Rice...Notched double-double of 28 assists and 13 digs against Iowa State in the NCAA Tournament...Attended U.S. National Team Tryouts at the Olympic Training Center.
High School: Four-year starter for Seymour High School in Seymour, Ind....Selected as a highest honorable mention selection to the PrepVolleyball.com All-America honorees...Earned All-State honors in 2012 and 2013...Named to ICHSA Junior and Senior All-Star Team...All-Conference, All-Area and team MVP all four years...Set the career assist record with 3,597 and single-season assist record with 988 while guiding her team to the IHSAA Final Four in 2011 and Final Eight in 2012...Also set career assist blocking record with 293...Team was IHSAA Sectional and Regional Champs in 2011 and 2012...Played club volleyball with KIVA...Selected to the AAU All-American Team in 2012...Led the team to as high as a runner-up finish in the AAU National Championships and Mideast Power League Champions in 2011 and 2013...Also selected to the JVA Showcase All-Tournament Team two different years.
Personal: Born on October 15, 1995...Daughter of Tom and Angie Lucas...Majoring in exercise science, pre-physical therapy...Mom was volleyball coach in high school...Brother, Matthew, played basketball at Oakland City University.
