Hall of Fame
ERIN CARTWRIGHT-DAVIS
Hometown: Wellsville, Utah
Sport: Volleyball
Years: 2001-03
One of just 11 volleyball players in school history to earn All-America honors, Erin Cartwright-Davis was a three-year starter for Utah State and helped the Aggies to the 2001 NCAA Tournament, where they advanced to the second round and finished the year ranked 21st nationally. Following her senior season in 2003, Cartwright-Davis was named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-West Region Team, along with earning AVCA honorable mention All-America honors. During her senior season, she hit .299 (490-169-1,074) and averaged 4.45 kills, 2.66 digs, 1.14 blocks, 0.27 service aces and 0.22 assists per set, as those 490 kills were a school record at the time and still ranks as the fourth-most in a single-season in school history, while her 33 solo blocks still ranks third and her .299 hitting percentage ranks eighth. Cartwright-Davis put up similar numbers as a junior, as she hit .310 (458-148-999) and averaged 4.24 kills, 1.68 digs, 1.11 blocks, 0.23 assists and 0.17 service aces per set. Those 458 kills rank as the eighth-most in a single-season in school history, while her .310 hitting percentage that season still ranks as the sixth-best. For her career, Cartwright-Davis recorded double-digit kills 77 times, including 12 matches where she had at least 20 kills. Her career high for kills was 33 against Pacific during her senior season, a match where she also had a career-best 25 digs. Cartwright-Davis also recorded double digits in digs 23 times during her career, and even had double digits in blocks once, with 10 against Oral Roberts during her senior campaign. In all, she posted 23 double-doubles during her career and registered five or more blocks in 36 matches. Cartwright-Davis finished her career ranking second all-time in school history in kills (1,309), attempts (2,999) and total blocks (351), third all-time in hitting percentage (.281), solo blocks (61) and block assists (290), and ninth all-time in digs (690). Currently, she still ranks fourth all-time in school history in hitting percentage, third all-time in solo blocks, fifth all-time in kills, fifth all-time in total blocks, seventh all-time in attempts and eighth all-time in block assists, and is one of just two players in school history to rank among the top-10 all-time at Utah State in all six categories listed above. In all, Cartwright-Davis was a three-time Big West all-conference selection and was twice named academic all-conference, to go along with being named the Big West Conference's Player of the Week three times.
