2018 Volleyball
Roster

Jersey Number 12
Carlyle Nusbaum
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Overland Park, Kan.
Career Honors & Awards:
- ASUN Player of the Year (2016, 2017)
- ASUN First Team All-Conference (2016, 2017)
- AVCA All-South Region (2016, 2017)
- AVCA Honorable Mention All-American (2016)
- VolleyballMag Honorable Mention All-American (2016)
- PrepVolleyball Honorable Mention All-American (2016)
- ASUN Tournament Most Valuable Player (2016)
- ASUN All-Freshman Team (2015)
- 11x ASUN Player of the Week
- ASUN Defensive Player of the Week (2016)
- ASUN Freshman of the Week (2015)
- 4x Tennessee Sports Writers Association Player of the Week (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
- MVP of LUV Invite (2018)
- 3x LUV Invite All-Tournament Team (2016, 2017, 2018)
- ASICS Classic All-Tournament Team (2016)
- Sports Imports D.C. Koehl Classic All-Tournament Team (2017)
- HotelRed Invitational All-Tournament Team (2017)
2017:
- Named ASUN Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, making her the first player in the conference since 2008-09 to grab back-to-back Player of the Year honors
- Unanimous ASUN First Team All-Conference
- AVCA All-South Region
- Was one of 12 players named to the USA College National Team China Tour, the program’s top collegiate squad
- ASUN All-Tournament Team
- LUV Invitational All-Tournament Team
- Ohio State’s D.C. Koehl Classic All-Tournament Team
- Wisconsin’s HotelRed Invitational All-Tournament Team
- Won three ASUN Player of the Week honors to give her nine for her career, which is the most all-time in the league’s volleyball history
- Ranked 4th in the nation with 5.22 kills per set and 5.57 points per set
- Led the league and stood 17th in the country with 522 total kills – the 8th most in a single season in conference history
- Her 5.22 kills per set was the second-highest total in ASUN history, trailing only FAU’s Kelly Paiva who registered 5.94 in 2005
- LUV Invite All-Tournament Team
2016:
- Became the seventh Bison in 10 years to take home ASUN Player of the Year honors
- ASUN Tournament MVP… Unanimous ASUN First Team All-Conference
- AVCA All-South Region
- Named an Honorable Mention All-American by AVCA, VolleyballMag.com and PrepVolleyball.com
- LUV Invite All-Tournament Team
- ASICS Classic All-Tournament Team
- Became only the second player in ASUN history to earn five Player of the Week honors in a single season…Also named ASUN Defensive Player of the Week (10/31)
- First Bison to ever be named the AVCA Player of the Week (11/15) after combining to hit .537 with 42 kills and 20 digs in back-to-back sweeps of Jacksonville and North Florida
- Led the ASUN and ranked 31st in the nation with 491 total kills and 4.50 kills per set
- Those totals helped pace the second-best kills per set team in the nation at 14.92
- 21 times she finished with a match high in kills
- Registered double-digit kills in 28 of 30 games, six of those she recorded 21 or more
- Tallied a career high 32 kills against Louisville (8/16) and a .568 hitting percentage (37ta, 24k, 3e) versus North Florida (11/12)
- Closed the season on a tear with double figures in digs in 10 of the last 12 games, after only having one in the first 18 outings
- Scooped up 228 digs for an average of 2.09 per set
- Notched a season high 15 digs in wins over Northwestern (9/9) and Kennesaw State (10/21)
- Totaled 10 double-doubles in kills and digs
- Her 540.0 points were tops in the conference and 40th in the country
- Her 4.95 points per set was the 20th best total in Division I
- Became the first sophomore to lead the ASUN in kills per set in more than a decade
- Finished third on the Bisons with 47 total blocks (13bs, 34ba)
- Also chipped in 19 service aces and nine assists
- Netted a career high three service aces in the season opener against Cal State Northridge (8/26)
- Picked up double figures in points in 29 of 30 matches played
2015:
- A-Sun All-Freshman Team
- A-Sun Player of the Week (11/2)
- A-Sun Freshman of the Week (11/2)
- First Lipscomb player to win both awards (POTW and Freshman of the Week) in the same week
- Tennessee Sports Writers Assocation Player of the Week (11/4)
- Second overall in A-Sun in both kills (302) and kills per set (3.68)
- Second in A-Sun matches only in both kills (146) and kills per set (3.72)
- Match high seven times in kills
- Career highs in kills (29) and digs (17) at Kennesaw State (10/31)
- Double figures in kills in 15 of 20 matches played and totaled 20 or more four times
- Four double-doubles (kills, digs)
- Four matches in double figures in digs
- Three matches with a .400 or higher hitting percentage
- Career match high .500 hiting percentage vs. Pacific (9/12)
High School:
- PrepVolleyball.com High School All-American (2014)
- PrepVolleyball.com Senior Ace(2014)
- Earned six letters, four in volleyball and two in track, at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, Kansas
- 2x All-State (2013, 2014)
- 4x All-Region and All-District
- Hayden Invitational MVP (2012, 2014)
- State Championship (2014)
- Runner-up State Championship (2013)
- 4x All-Tournament selection
- All-State Tournament team (2013, 2014)
- First place in career kills … Second highest total in season kills
- In track earned 3rd-place in the long jump and javelin in Eastern Kansas League (2012)
- Placed 6th in javelin in 5-A State Meet (2012)
- Honor roll (two semesters)
- National Art Honors Society.
Club:
- National Champion in Open Division (2013)
- National Runner-up in National Division(2010)
- Fifth place Open Division (2011, 2012, 2015)
- 10th place Open Division (2014).
Personal:
- Parents are Kris and Mark Nusbaum
- One older sister (Kelsey Tarpinian) and two younger brothers (Andrew and Jameson)
- Her mother played volleyball and basketball at Rockhurst University
- Her father played basketball at Northwest Missouri State University
- Her grandfather, Norman Victor Rehm, played baseball in the Major Leagues for the Milwaukee Braves (1954-1963)
- Business Marketing major.
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