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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox volleyball biography Asjia O'Neal (born October 23, 1999) is an American volleyball player. She played college volleyball for the Texas Longhorns and won back-to-back NCAA championships in 2022 and 2023.

Early life

O'Neal was born to National Basketball Association (NBA) player Jermaine O'Neal and his wife Mesha.[1] She practiced basketball with her father after fourth grade and took up volleyball in seventh grade in 2012 after moving from Miami to Dallas.[1] At age 13, she underwent her first open-heart surgery for a congenital mitral valve leak.[1][2] She committed to the University of Texas at Austin as a high school sophomore.[1][3] She played three years of varsity high school volleyball at Carroll Senior High School in Southlake, Texas.[4]

College career

O'Neal redshirted her first year at Texas in 2018.[5] She averaged a hitting percentage of .413 to start her first season, while having a worsening mitral valve leak and a new tricuspid valve leak that required a second open-heart surgery in January 2020.[1][6] That summer, she helped organize campus activism to rename landmarks and build statues of former black students during the George Floyd protests.[1][5] She helped Texas reach the final of the 2020 NCAA tournament held in the spring of 2021.[5] She received the Honda Inspiration Award for the 2020 season.[1][7]

O'Neal helped the Longhorns win the 2022 NCAA championship alongside fellow first-team All-Americans Logan Eggleston and Zoe Fleck.[8][9] She averaged a career-high .443 hitting percentage that season.[10] She returned for a sixth year and led Texas to defend its title at the 2023 NCAA championship.[11]

Professional career

O'Neal was drafted first overall in the first Pro Volleyball Federation (PVF) draft in December 2023.[12]

International career

O'Neal first played for the United States national team at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.[8]

References

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External links

Шаблон:Honda Sports Award