University of Pittsburgh Athletics
Volleyball Professional Alumni
Head Coach Dan Fisher has a proven track record of developing and preparing student-athletes to become professionals. Currently 16 Forever Panthers are competing on the professional stage, both overseas and in the United States. Bre Kelley, Brooke Mosher, Emmy Klika, Rachel Fairbanks, Serena Gray, Leketor Member-Meneh, Kayla Lund and Layne Buskirk are playing in the United States, either with Pro Volleyball Federation (PFV) or League One Volleyball (LOVB), the first professional volleyball leagues in the United States with a real format.
2025
Brooke Mosher
Professional Seasons: 1
Current Team: Omaha Supernovas
Location: Omaha, NE, U.S.
Career Highlights
- AVCA Second Team All-American
- First Team All-ACC
- AVCA East Coast Region Team
- Pittsburgh NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team
- 3x ACC Setter of the Week
Bre Kelley
Professional Seasons: 1
Current Team: Orlando Valkyries
Location: Orlando, FL, U.S.
Career Highlights
- ACC Defensive Player of the Year (2025)
- 2x First Team All-ACC (2024, 2025)
- AVCA Honorable Mention All-American (2025)
- 2x AVCA East Coast Region Team (2024, 2025)
- AVCA National Player of the Year Watch List (2025)
- AVCA Second Team All-American (2024)
- 2x Preseason All-ACC Team (2023, 2025)
- SEC Defensive Player of the Week (10/17/2022)
- Gold Medal with Team USA (U21) at Pan American Cup (2022)
- SEC All-Freshman Team (2021)
2024
Rachel Fairbanks
Professional Seasons: 2
Current Team: LOVB Atlanta
Location: Atlanta, GA, U.S.
Career Highlights
- 2x AVCA First Team All-American (2023, 2024)
- 2x First Team All-ACC (2023, 2024)
- 3x AVCA East Coast Region Team (2022, 2023, 2024)
- AVCA National Player of the Year Semifinalist (2024)
- 4x NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)
- 2x Volleymag.com First Team All-American (2023, 2024)
- AVCA East Coast Region Player of the Year (2023)
- ACC Setter of the Year (2023)
- Preseason All-ACC Team (2023)
- AVCA Third Team All-American (2022)
- Volleymag.com Fourth Team All-American (2022)
- All-ACC Second Team (2022)
Emmy Klika
Professional Seasons: 2
Current Team: Orlando Valkyries
Location: Orlando, FL, U.S.
Career Highlights
- All-ACC Second Team (2024)
- AVCA East Coast Region Team (2024)
- Pittsburgh NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team (2024)
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2024)
- AVCA All-American Honorable Mention (2023)
- AVCA All-East Coast Region Team (2023)
- All-ACC Second Team (2023)
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2023)
- 3x All-ACC Academic Team member (2022, 2023, 2024)
Valeria Vazquez Gomez
Professional Seasons: 2
Current Team: Volleyball Casalmaggiore
Location: Casalmaggiore, Italy
Career Highlights
- All-ACC Second Team (2024)
- AVCA East Coast Region Team (2024)
- All-ACC Second Team (2023)
- AVCA East Coast Region Team (2023)
- Preseason All-ACC Team (2023)
- AVCA Second Team All-American (2022)
- Volleyballmag.com 4th Team All-American (2022)
- All-ACC First Team (2022)
- AVCA East Coast Region Team (2022)
- 2x ACC Player of the Week (10/10/22 & 11/28/22)
Cat Flood
Professional Seasons: 1
Current Team: Universitario de Deportes
Location: Lima, Peru
Career Highlights
- Played in 121 matches and 335 sets in her career
- Totaled 125 digs, 64 aces and 37 kills
- 4x Final Four participant
- 3x ACC Champion
- Tied for sixth in program history for most aces in an NCAA Tournament match with three against Wisconsin in the Regional Final victory (12/10/22)
2022
Serena Gray
Professional Seasons: 3
Current Team: LOVB Salt Lake
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.
Career Highlights
- AVCA First Team All-American (2022)
- VolleyballMag.com All-America 4th Team (2022)
- AVCA East Coast All-Region Team (2022)
- ACC Player of the Week (9/26/2022)
- 2x ACC Volleyball Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2021 & 2022)
- 3x AVCA All-America Honorable Mention (2018, 2019, 2021)
- VolleyballMag.com All-America Honorable Mention (2021)
- AVCA East Coast All-Region Team (2021)
- All-ACC First Team (2021, 2022)
- NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team (Pittsburgh) (2021)
- Preseason All-ACC (2021, 2022)
- 2x AVCA All-Northeast Region Honorable Mention (2018, 2019)
- NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team (Stanford) (2019)
- Big Ten Freshman of the Week (2018)
Sabrina Starks
Professional Seasons: 4
Current Team: Volleyball Casalmaggiore
Location: Casalmaggiore, Italy
Career Highlights
- AVCA East Coast All-Region Honorable Mention (2020)
- All-ACC Second Team (2020)
- 3x All-ACC Academic Team (2019, 2020 & 2022)
2021
Kayla Lund
Professional Seasons: 4
Current Team: Indy Ignite
Location: Indianapolis, IN, U.S.
Career Highlights
- Varsity Walk – Panther Award (2020)
- AVCA All-America First Team (2021) *
- 2x AVCA All-America Second Team (2019, 2020) *
- Senior CLASS Award All-America First Team (2021) *
- VolleyballMag.com All-America First Team (2020) *
- VolleyballMag.com All-America Second Team (2021)
- CoSIDA Academic All-America® Third Team (2021)
- ACC Postgraduate Scholarship (2020)
- 2x AVCA East Coast Region Player of the Year (2019, 2020) *
- 4x AVCA East Coast All-Region Team (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
- 2x ACC Player of the Year (2019, 2020) *
- 4x All-ACC First Team (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) *
- Sports Imports / AVCA National Player of the Week (Sept. 7, 2021) *
- 7x ACC Player of the Week (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) – program record
- 3x Preseason All-ACC (2019, 2020, 2021)
- AVCA All-America Honorable Mention (2018)
- 4x All-ACC Academic Team (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
- AVCA East Coast Region Freshman of the Year (2017)
* First in Program History
Leketor Member-Meneh
Professional Seasons: 4
Current Team: Indy Ignite
Location: Indianapolis, IN, U.S.
Career Highlights
- AVCA All-America Second Team (2021)
- VolleyballMag.com All-America Second Team (2021)
- NCAA All-Tournament Team (2021)
- NCAA Regional All-Tournament MVP (Pittsburgh) (2021)
- AVCA East Coast All-Region Team (2021)
- All-ACC First Team (2021)
- ACC Co-Player of the Week (Nov. 23, 2021)
- 2018 All-SEC (2018)
- SEC Offensive Player of the Week (2018)
- Mizzou Invitational All-Tournament Team (MVP) (2018)
- SEC All-Freshman Team (2017)
- First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll (2017-18)
Jordan Lockwood
Professional Seasons: 2
Current Team: VC Kanti Schaffhausen
Location: Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Career Highlights
- AVCA Two-Year College National Player of the Year (2019, at Navarro College)
- NJCAA National Champion (2019, at Navarro College)
- AVCA Two-Year College All-America First Team (2019, at Navarro College)
2019
Layne Van Buskirk
Professional Seasons: 6
Current Team: Dallas Pulse
Location: Dallas, TX, U.S.
Career Highlights
- 2x AVCA All-America Honorable Mention (2018, 2019)
- 2x AVCA East Coast All-Region Team (2018, 2019)
- 2x All-ACC First Team (unanimous) (2018, 2019)
- 2x ACC Player of the Week (2018, 2019)
- 2x All-ACC Academic Team (2018, 2019)
- ACC All-Freshman Team (2016)
- 2x ACC Freshman of the Week (2016)
Nika Markovic
Professional Seasons: 6
Current Team: Bartoccini-Mc Restauri Perugia
Location: Peruggia, Italy
Career Highlights
- AVCA All-America Third Team (2018)
- 2x AVCA East Coast All-Region Team (2017, 2018)
- 2x All-ACC First Team (2017, 2018)
- All-ACC Academic Team (2018)
- 3x ACC Player of the Week (2017, 2018)
- AVCA All-America Honorable Mention (2017)
- ACC All-Freshman Team (2016)
- 2x ACC Freshman of the Week (2016)
Zoi Faki
Professional Seasons: 4
Current Team: Szent Benedek RA
Location: Balatonfüred, Hungary
Career Highlights
- 89 career kills
- 32 career aces
- 155 career digs
- 3x ACC Champion (207, 2018 & 2019)
- ACC Honor Roll (2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020)
- Record Holder: Most digs in an NCAA Tournament match - 23 vs. Michigan (Dec. 1, 2018)
2016
Maria Genitsaridi
Professional Seasons: 9
Current Team: AO Thiras
Location: Thiras, Greece
Career Highlights
- 7th in program history with 132 career service aces
- 2nd most service aces in a season during the rally scoring era with 48 in 2013
- ACC Honor Roll (2015 & 2016)
- 724 career kills
- 132 career aces
- 859 career digs
2015
Kadi Kullerkann
Professional Seasons: 10
Current Team: Besiktas
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Career Highlights
- All-America honoree (2015)
- First Team All-Region selection (2015)
- First Team All-ACC (2015)
- Nebraska Invite All-Tournament Team (2015)
- Duquesne/Pitt Invitational All-Tournament Team (2015)
- Michigan Challenge All-Tournament Team (2015)