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Jersey Number 5
Kiara Reinhardt
- Position:
- Middle Blocker
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Cedarburg, Wis.
- High School:
- Cedarburg
- Deals:
Awards & Honors
2020 BIG EAST All-Freshman Team
2020 BIG EAST All-Tournament Team
2020 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, 3/9
2020-21 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2020-21 Dean’s List
2021-22 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2021-22 Dean’s List
2022 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
2022-23 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2022-23 Dean’s List
2023 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, 10/30
2023-24 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2023-24 Dean’s List
2024 All-BIG EAST Conference
2024 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, 9/23
2024 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, 11/4
2024 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, 11/25
2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
2024 True Blue Award (The Billy’s)
2024-25 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2024-25 Dean’s List
2025 AVCA All-West Region First Team
2025 AVCA Second Team All-American
2025 All-BIG EAST
2025 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, 9/29
2025 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, 10/6
2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-American First Team
2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
2025 Preseason All-BIG EAST
2025 Trojan Invitational All-Tournament Team
2025: Fifth Year Senior at Creighton
• AVCA Second Team All-American and College Sports Communicators First Team Academic All-American.
• Earned All-BIG EAST honors in 2024 and 2025 and All-West Region accolades in 2025.
• College Sports Communicators Academic All-District choice.
• First Round pick of the Omaha Supernovas in the 2025 Major League Volleyball draft, eighth overall.
• NCAA ranks: 6th in hitting percentage; 121st in blocks; 220th in blocks per set.
• BIG EAST ranks (all matches): 1st in hitting percentage, 8th in blocks per set.
• BIG EAST ranks (league matches): 1st in hitting percentage; 8th in blocks per set.
• Owns Creighton NCAA Tournament career records for matches played (13), matches started (12) and blocks (61) and is tied for the mark in wins played in (8).
• Has played in more wins (124) than any player in Creighton Volleyball history, and Creighton won six BIG EAST regular-season and six BIG EAST Tournament titles (while losing only six BIG EAST matches) in her six seasons at Creighton.
• Also owns D.J. Sokol Arena career records for matches played (69), matches started (65), sets played (229) and blocks (251).
• Led CU with nine kills on .529 hitting vs. No. 5 Texas (Aug. 29).
• Had 11 kills on .364 hitting in win vs. No. 14 Kansas (Aug. 31), her most kills in a match since 2022.
• Dominated play against San Diego, tying her then-career-high with 15 kills in just 19 swings and setting a CU record for attack percentage in a four-set match (.789) on Sept. 5.
• Had nine kills on .400 hitting and six blocks vs. UC Santa Barbara (Sept. 6).
• Named to All-Tournament Team at Trojan Invitational (Sept. 7).
• Had career-high 16 kills and hit .560 vs. No. 4 Louisville, adding five blocks (Sept. 12).
• Hit .700 in 10 swings vs. Rice (Sept. 13).
• Owned nine kills and eight blocks in 3-0 win vs. Xavier (Sept. 26).
• Tied season-best with eight blocks vs. Butler (Sept. 27).
• BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 29 and Oct. 6.
• Hit .722 and finished with 14 kills in 18 swings at DePaul (Oct. 4).
• Hit .750 and had 10 kills in 12 swings, hitting .750 with seven blocks, in 3-0 win at Villanova (Oct. 11).
• Had 10 kills in 15 swings, hitting .667 vs. Seton Hall (Oct. 19).
• Notched 500th career block on Oct. 24 at Providence.
• Finished with 12 kills vs. Marquette (Nov. 1).
• Had nine kills and five blocks in Senior Day win vs. Georgetown (Nov. 9).
• Had nine kills and hit .500 in BIG EAST Tournament semifinal win vs. Marquette (Nov. 22), then hit .500 with eight kills a day later in title match win vs. Xavier (Nov. 23).
• Hit .400 and had 10 kills and nine blocks vs. Northern Colorado (Dec. 4).
• Hit .500 and had 10 kills in win vs. UNI to return to Sweet 16 (Dec. 5).
• Owned 15 kills and hit .737 in Sweet 16 win vs. No. 8 Arizona State (Dec. 11), including the kill on match point.
• Hit .296 and led the league with 1.47 blocks per set (10th nationally) in 2024.
• Head coach Brian Rosen said that Reinhardt was “on an island by herself” when it comes to leadership.
• Got engaged in July.
2024: Senior at Creighton
• All-BIG EAST Conference selection in 2024.
• Fifth-year Bluejay who led the BIG EAST with 167 blocks and 1.48 blocks per set in 2024, good for ninth nationally in total blocks and 10th in blocks per set.
• In BIG EAST play only, ranked first in blocks per set and eighth in hitting percentage.
• Ranks sixth in Creighton career history with 1.11 blocks per set.
• Her 167 blocks ranked sixth in CU single-season history and her 1.48 blocks per set were the fourth-best CU season ever.
• Announced on Nov. 17 during Senior Day that she would be coming back in 2025 for her sixth season, which was an option thanks to a COVID year (2020) as well as a redshirt season (2021).
• Had eight kills and hit .533 in season-opening win vs. NC State (Aug. 30).
• Had eight blocks at No. 5 Nebraska (Sept. 10), then matched it vs. Rice (Sept. 14).
• Had eight kills, five digs and six blocks in 3-1 win vs. No. 6 Purdue (Sept. 20), hitting .429 and passing 300 career blocks.
• Owned five kills in seven swings and added five blocks in 3-0 win at No. 10 Kansas (Sept. 21).
• Picked up third career BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week award on Sept. 23rd after the wins vs. Purdue and Kansas.
• Had season-high nine kills and added five blocks in four-set win vs. Marquette (Oct. 1).
• Rejected 10 blocks vs. St. John’s, all in the first two sets (Nov. 1).
• Earned her fourth career BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week recognition on Nov. 4, then her fifth three weeks later on Nov. 25.
• Recorded a season-high 11 blocks at DePaul (Nov. 22).
• Tied season-high with nine kills in Sweet 16 win against No. 13 Texas (Dec. 13), also adding a match-high eight blocks.
• Selected to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.
2023: Junior at Creighton
• Third in the BIG EAST in hitting percentage during league play (.394) and seventh with 0.98 blocks per set.
• In all matches, ranked fifth in the BIG EAST in hitting percentage (.336), 10th in aces per set (0.33) and 10th in blocks per set (0.92).
• Team went 21-1 when she started.
• Hit .300 or better in 14 of the last 18 matches of the season.
• Named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 30 after averaging 1.83 blocks, 1.50 kills and 0.67 aces per set on .450 hitting in two wins.
• Owned seven kills and three digs and hit .250 at Nebraska (Sept. 6).
• Finished with three kills and three digs in 3-0 win vs. High Point (Sept. 15).
• Recorded three kills and four blocks on .500 hitting in 3-0 win vs. St. John’s (Sept. 29).
• Owned four kills, three blocks and her first two aces of 2023 at Marquette (Oct. 6).
• Notched six blocks to go with six kills at DePaul (Oct. 7).
• Hit .444 and served two aces vs. Georgetown (Oct. 13).
• Had a season-high nine kills and career-best six digs vs. Villanova (Oct. 15).
• Hit .667 with seven kills in nine swings, while adding two aces in 3-0 win at UConn (Oct. 20).
• Hit .625 with six kills in victory at Providence (Oct. 21).
• Had five kills and five blocks on .714 hitting in win at Villanova (Oct. 27).
• Tied career-high with four aces and also contributed six blocks as well as four kills at Georgetown (Oct. 28).
• Hit .583 with seven kills and added two aces in 3-0 win vs. No. 25 Marquette (Nov. 5).
• Picked up nine kills in 14 swings, hitting .571, in 3-0 win at Seton Hall (Nov. 10).
• Tied career-high with four aces in 3-1 win at St. John’s (Nov. 11).
• Owned a season-high with nine blocks in BIG EAST Tournament finals win vs. St. John’s (Nov. 25), also hitting .500 and serving two aces.
• Had eight blocks and hit .385 with five kills in NCAA Regional Semifinal against No. 7 Louisville (Dec. 7).
2022: Redshirt Sophomore at Creighton
• Named to College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.
• Recorded 100th career block on Sept. 7 vs. Nebraska in her 23rd career match, quickest in program history.
• Led CU with 13 blocks at the Rumble in the Rockies (Aug. 26-27), including six vs. Wichita State (Aug. 26).
• Returned to the court after her redshirt season with four kills, two blocks and .444 hitting on Aug. 26 vs. Iowa State.
• Had eight kills and team-high four blocks vs. No. 2 Nebraska (Sept. 7).
• Had career-high 15 kills and hit .448 at Rice (Sept. 18).
• Hit .500 and had a pair of solo blocks vs. Butler (Sept. 30).
• Pounded 11 kills on .556 hitting in 3-2 win at UConn (Oct. 7).
• Finished with seven kills and season-high nine blocks vs. DePaul (Oct. 16), and also had nine blocks in the rematch at DePaul (Nov. 18).
• Hit season-high .667 with eight kills and tied season-high with two aces in BIG EAST Tournament win vs. Xavier (Nov. 25).
• Had six kills, three blocks and season-highs with two aces and four digs in BIG EAST Tournament title match win vs. No. 14 Marquette (Nov. 26).
• Served two aces in NCAA Tournament match vs. Auburn (Dec. 2).
2021: Redshirted at Creighton
• Missed the fall season due to injury.
2020: Freshman at Creighton
• True freshman who started every match and ranked second in the BIG EAST with 1.23 blocks per set and 48th nationally (ninth among freshmen).
• Team was 6-1 when she had five or more blocks and 6-1 when she had six or more kills.
• Averaged 2.14 blocks and 1.71 kills per set to earn All-BIG EAST Tournament Team honors (April 2-3).
• Had season-high 13 kills while hitting .722 in NCAA Tournament debut vs. Morehead State (April 14).
• Her .722 hitting tied a school-record for hitting percentage in any five-set match, as well as a Creighton record in any NCAA Tournament contest.
• Debuted with seven kills, four blocks, two aces and two digs against Omaha (Jan. 22).
• Had eight kills, four digs and three aces in a win at South Dakota (Jan. 31), also serving a match-ending 7-0 run in fifth set.
• Had six kills in nine swings vs. No. 25 Marquette while adding four aces and three blocks in 3-2 win (Feb. 5).
• Named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week on March 9th.
• Had career-high 11 blocks and added eight kills against Marquette in BIG EAST Tournament final (April 3), the most by a Bluejay freshman in any match since Lauren Smith had 12 blocks versus Georgetown on Nov. 9, 2013.
Cedarburg High School
• The No. 46 Senior Ace according to PrepVolleyball.
• Named to the Girls Fab 50 Seniors list by Volleyball Magazine.
• Finished prep career with 1,045 kills, 383 blocks, 118 aces and hit .318.
• Battled injury as a senior, but still compiled 142 kills, 71 blocks and 17 aces on .294 hitting.
• Chosen First Team All-State as a junior, when she was also named Team MVP, Team Offensive Player of the Year, North Shore Conference Player of the Year and First Team All-North Shore Conference for the league champs after she had 352 kills, 139 blocks and 45 aces on .425 hitting.
• First Team All-North Shore Conference and a Third Team All-State pick during sophomore season after recording 303 kills, 115 blocks and 45 aces as she hit .350 for the Bulldogs.
• Selected as team’s Offensive Player of the Year as a sophomore.
• Named to PrepVolleyball’s Top 79 Soph List in spring of 2018.
• Was Honorable Mention All-North Shore Conference during her freshman year, when she had 248 kills and 58 blocks.
• Coached by Jimmy Burg.
• Committed to Creighton in August of 2017 after also picking up interest from Kentucky and Wisconsin.
• Played club volleyball with the Milwaukee Sting.
Personal
• Daughter of Mark and Sandy Reinhardt.
• Has a brother Dane, who was a practice player with CU volleyball, as well as a sister Aliza.
• Got engaged to Ethan Russell in late July.
• Received her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and is pursuing her Master’s of Nursing Education.
• Three words to describe her hometown are charming, welcoming and quaint.
• Best sports memory was beating Texas to advance to the Elite Eight.
• Favorite class is Human Pathophysiology.
Creighton vs. Kentucky Volleyball Press Conference - 12/13/25
Sunday, December 14
Creighton Volleyball NCAA Tournament Highlights vs. Kentucky, 12/13/25
Saturday, December 13
Kentucky Volleyball Media Availability - 12/12/25
Friday, December 12
Arizona State Volleyball Press Conference After Creighton Match - 12/11/25
Thursday, December 11
