2018: Named team captain...Named AVCA All-East Region, Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and selected All-Ivy First Team...Named to Ivy League weekly honor roll four times...Led Ivy League in digs per set (5.04) in conference play...Named to UCF VolleyKnights Invitational All-Tournament Team on Sept. 15, averaging 5.33 digs per set over three matches...Finished third on the team in service aces with 12 (0.26 average) in conference matches only...Posted 20 or more digs in 9 matches...Posted 29 digs in five-set match against Central Florida (nationally ranked)...Entering NCAA Tournament, has 386 total digs (currently 9th highest single-season total in Yale Volleyball program history)...Fifth-highest single-season average in digs per set in Yale Volleyball program history (4.95).
2017: Named AVCA All-East Region Honorable Mention...Named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Award and a spot on the All-Ivy First Team...Led the Ivy League in digs per set in conference play (5.43).
2016: Named All-Ivy Second Team...Earned Yale Volleyball Program''s Coaches'' Award after the 2016 season...Ranked fourth in the Ivy League and led team in digs per set (4.38)...Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll on Oct. 3 after averaging 5.00 digs per set in matches against Columbia and Cornell...Produced 20 or more digs in eight matches...Had career-high 29 digs at Harvard on Nov. 11.
2015: Appeared in 24 matches...Led Bulldogs in digs per set (3.76)...Ranked fourth in digs per set in Ivy matches...Had 20 or more digs in six Ivy Matches...Had 13 or more digs in 12 of 14 Ivy matches...Led team in service aces (13) in Ivy matches...Posted two service aces in four Ivy Matches...Had one of the highest dig totals (26) in an Ivy match (10/31, at Columbia).
Before Yale: Named to the 2014 First-Team Under Armour All-American and 2014 Daily Prep Talk Libero of the Year...Four-year starter at The Bishop''s School, patrolled the backcourt to her school''s CIF DII Championship in 2013, and was First Team All CIF in 2014...As the starting libero for nationally-ranked Coast VBC, she helped lead her team to 5th place in 17 Open at the 2014 USAV Junior Nationals...Prep Volleyball also named her one of the nation''s Soph 79...Competed in the Open division of USAV Junior Nationals for the past 6 years.
Appleman on Swanson:
"Kate has the most impressive volleyball resume prior to college of any Yale volleyball recruit."
