2025 Beach Volleyball Roster

23 Maile Somera

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Last School(s) Barrington HS
  • Hometown Barrington, RI
  • Major Business Administration and Entrepreneurship

Biography

Yale
2023:
Named the 2023 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and All-Ivy First Team...ranked second in the Ivy League in digs per set (4.34) and second in total service aces (36)... she collected 1,366 career digs and averaged over 4.00 digs per set her last three seasons.

2022:  Named All-Ivy Second Team...Named 2022 Academic All-District® Volleyball Team, selected by College Sports Communicators...Ranked third in the Ivy League in digs per set (4.32) and service aces per set (0.48) in conference matches...Led the Bulldogs with 409 digs...Had 20 or more digs five times...Named to the Yale Invitational All-Tournament team. 

2021: Tied for second in the Ivy League with 29 service aces and was fourth with 378 digs... Appeared in 87 of a possible 88 sets... Named to the all-tournament team at the Yale Invitational... Had a season-high 27 digs in the home match with Brown... Had 25 digs in three sets vs. Princeton... Academic All-Ivy selection.

2020: Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

2019: Appeared in 79 sets, the most of any first year… Led the team with 22 services aces and was third with 210 digs… Had a season-high 19 digs in both matches with Cornell.

Club:
Competed for SMASH Volleyball Club
PrepVolleyball's Defensive Dandies (2017, 2018)
PrepVolleyball Sophomore 79 (2016)
PrepVolleyball Top 50 Watch List (2016, 2017)
PrepVolleyball Senior Aces All (2018-2019)
PrepVolleyball High School All American (2018-2019)

High School:
Rhode Island Gatorade Player of the Year (2016, 2017, 2018)
Rhode Island Volleyball Player of the Year (2016, 2017, 2018)
Rhode Island Female Scholar Athlete of the Year (2018-2019)
Worlds Unlimited Female Scholar Athlete of the Year (2019)
Providence Journal Player of the Decade (2019)
First Team All-State Honors (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
AP Scholar Achievement Award (2018, 2019)
Indoor Volleyball State Champions (2015, 2017, 2018)
Holds several school records: 1746 Career Digs, 1354 Career Kills , 272 Aces
402 Career Hitting Percentage
2019 Rhode Island Scholar Athlete of the Year
2019 Words Unlimited Scholar Athlete of the Year
AP President's Scholar Award
National Honors Society Member

Personal: Raised in a volleyball household, her mother Nancy is head coach at Johnson & Wales in Providence, and her father Ben is the head coach at Wesleyan (Conn.)... Mother played Indoor Volleyball at USC, Brother ran track & field at Syracuse University, Grandpa played Basketball and Baseball at USC...Enjoys painting, collaging, hiking, and golf...Hopes to pursue a professional volleyball career... earning her Master's in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship.