Alexis Conaway

Photo by: Athletics Communications

Photo by: Athletics Communications

Position:
Middle Blocker
Height:
6-0
Class:
Senior
High School:
MOC-Floyd Valley
Hometown:
Orange City, Iowa

Awards and Honors
CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American (2017) ... CoSIDA Academic All-District (2017) ... AVCA All-Midwest Region Honorable Mention (2017) ... Cyclone Invitational Co-MVP (2017) ... Senior CLASS Award Top-30 Candidate (2017) ... Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 15, 2014, Sept. 11, 2017) ... Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2015, 2016, 2017) ... Marquette Invitational All-Tournament Team (2016) ... Big 12 Preseason Team (2016) ... All-Big 12 First Team (2015, 2016) ... All-Big 12 Honorable Mention (2014) ... Big 12 All-Freshman Team (2014) ... Big 12 Rookie of the Week (Nov. 17, 2014) ... Big 12 Academic All-Rookie Team (2015) ... Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018)

2017 (Senior)
Played and started in all 29 matches, taking part in 101 sets … started first nine matches of the season at middle blocker before moving over to outside hitter for the remainder of the season … finished season with 238 kills, 179 digs and 103 blocks, becoming the first Cyclone since Alison Landwehr in 2011 with a triple-triple season … had nine matches with at least 10 kills … recorded a season-high 18 kills at a .319 hitting percentage against West Virginia … had 16 kills in win over Kansas … recorded 15 kills at a .343 hitting percentage at Kansas … had three double-doubles on the season, coming against Creighton, at Kansas and in home match against Kansas … had career-high 14 digs at Kansas, and 13 digs in home match against Kansas … became first Cyclone since Tenisha Matlock to have two 100-block seasons in career … recorded season-best nine blocks against UNI … was named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week after eight-block output at Iowa … also had eight blocks against Pittsburgh … posted a season-best five solo blocks at Wichita State.

2016 (Junior)
Played and started in 28 matches for Iowa State, taking part in 102 sets … recorded 191 kills at 1.87 kills per set … .323 hitting percentage led the team, ranked sixth in the Big 12 and sixth in a season in ISU history … heads into senior season owning three of the top-seven single-season hitting percentages in program history … had 12 matches hitting over .400 … recorded seven matches with at least 10 kills for the Cyclones … posted season-best 13 kills at Kansas State … had 12 kills at Texas and against North Dakota State … recorded 11 kills at Oklahoma … had 10 kills against Baylor, Kansas and at South Dakota … in sweep of Coyotes, hit season-best .625 hitting clip … was second on the team with 69 total blocks (10 solo, 59 assists) … posted season-best nine total blocks (two solo, seven assists) at No. 4 Kansas … also had a pair of solo blocks against Texas Tech … had six block assists against West Virginia … also had six total blocks at UNI and at Texas Tech … posted six aces on the season, including season-best three at Omaha … had season-best seven digs at South Dakota.

2015 (Sophomore)
Played in 29 matches and 96 sets for Iowa State in 2015 … All-Big 12 First Team honoree, her first career All-Big 12 nod … finished season with 196 kills at 2.04 per set … .351 hitting percentage is the second-best in program history, only behind Samara West’s .352 this season … became third player in school history to have two seasons hitting over .300 (Tenisha Matlock, Jamie Straube) … recorded career-high 17 kills twice against Oklahoma: in Norman on Sept. 30 and in Ames on Oct. 31 … in match in Ames, she earned her 17 kills at a .593 hitting percentage … had career-best .632 hitting percentage with 12 kills at Iowa on Sept. 11 … match against the Hawkeyes was one of six matches Conaway finished without an attack error … also had nine matches with just one attack error … recorded 12 kills at West Virginia at .786 hitting percentage, but did not have enough attack attempts to be eligible for hitting percentage records … recorded 11 kills at .476 hitting percentage against Texas Tech … ranked second on Cyclones with 72 blocks at 0.75 per set … finished with at least five total blocks seven times, including season-best six total blocks against Kansas State on Oct. 7 and Oklahoma on Oct. 31 … in win over Sooners in Ames, also had career-best nine digs … finished season with 14 service aces … had season-best three at Virginia.

2014 (Freshman)
Played in all 29 matches and 104 sets for the Cyclones … earned Honorable Mention All-Big 12 and was named to the Big 12 All-Freshman Team … posted 217 kills at 2.09 kills per set … season hitting percentage of .321 is the fourth-highest in program history and the first time a Cyclone freshman has hit over .300 in a season … recorded at least 10 kills in nine matches … had first-career 10-kill match with 12 kills at .476 hitting percentage against Tulsa … posted 12 kills at .526 hitting percentage against West Virginia … posted career-high 15 kills at career-best (min. 15 attempts) .560 hitting percentage at Oklahoma … had 10 kills on 13 attempts for .769 hitting percentage against Baylor … led Iowa State with 113 total blocks at 1.09 blocks per set … 113 total blocks tied for the most by a freshman in ISU history while 106 block assists is a new ISU freshman record … recorded 11 matches with at least 5.0 total blocks … in win over Tulsa, recorded ISU freshman record with 11 block assists … earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for her blocking efforts … posted eight block assists at Oklahoma and followed that with seven blocks against TCU, earning Big 12 Rookie of the Week honors … ranked fourth on the Cyclones with 17 service aces … posted career-high four aces at TCU … had two aces in NCAA Championship match at Illinois.

High School
One of the top all-around athletes in the state of Iowa in recent memory, was a state champion in three different sports at MOC-Floyd Valley … four-year letterwinner at MOC-Floyd Valley for head coach Jon Mouw … two-time Elite All-State honoree, including winning the Gatorade Player of the Year award as a junior … helped lead the Lady Dutch to state titles as a junior and a senior … in senior season, finished with 505 kills, 4.81 per set, at a .475 hitting percentage … recorded 59 aces … also posted 279 digs at 2.66 per set … in state title win over Kuemper Catholic, posted a double-double with 19 kills at a .457 hitting percentage and 11 digs in three-set win, being named captain of the All-Tournament team … as a junior, finished with 489 kills at 4.41 kills per set and a .435 hitting percentage … in state championship match, a five-set victory, recorded 30 kills at a .481 hitting percentage and 25 digs, receiving the honor of captain of the All-Tournament Team … was a four-time All-State selection, earning third-team honors as a sophomore and honorable mention as a freshman … also played basketball and ran track for MOC-Floyd Valley … Miss Iowa Basketball 2014 recipient from the Iowa Newspaper Association, leading the Lady Dutch to the Class 3A state title … averaged 21.7 ppg and 8.4 rpg in her senior campaign … in state tournament semifinals, scored tournament-record 46 points in win over Mediapolis … three-time first-team all-state honoree and three-time Class 3A Player of the Year … also competed in track, winning four state championships in the high jump and three Drake Relay titles in the same event.

Personal
Born January 12, 1996 … daughter of Bob and Sue Conaway … kinesiology major.