Fisayo Afonja

Photo by: Sage Hurteau

Photo by: Jamie Fiedorek

Class:
Sophomore
Position:
Middle Blocker
Height:
5-10
Hometown:
Baldwin City, Kansas
High School:
Baldwin

2025: Appeared in 10 matches and 31 sets, making eight starts ... Finished fourth on the team with 2.35 kills per set and was second on the team with 0.81 blocks per set ... Finished the season with 73 kills, 40 digs, 25 blocks and nine service aces ... Led Brown in kills in one match ... Posted 13 kills, three digs and two blocks against Yale (Oct. 25) ... Had an 11-kill, 12-dig, seven-block performance against Penn, picking up career-highs in both digs and blocks (Oct. 31) ... Finished with 14 kills, five digs and four blocks against Princeton (Nov. 2) ... Had two matches with three service aces (Dartmouth, Nov. 7 and Columbia, Nov. 14) ... Had eight kills with seven digs and two blocks in the Ivy League Semifinal against Princeton (Nov. 21).

2024: Appeared in 14 matches and 34 sets, making 11 starts ... Averaged 0.91 kills per set and 0.62 blocks per set, adding 17 digs ... Began the season with six kills, two digs and two blocks against Providence (Sept. 6) ... Posted a season-best seven kills, hitting .429 with two blocks and two digs against Bowling Green (Sept. 13) ... Had six kills, hitting .308 against Central Connecticut (Sept. 20) ... Posted a season-best four blocks and four digs to go along with four kills against UConn (Sept. 20).

Before Brown: Three sport athlete at Baldwin High School, playing volleyball, track and soccer ... In volleyball, two-time Second Team All-State, All-State Honorable Mention, three-time Frontier League First Team and Honorable Mention once ... As a senior, named AVCA High School All-Region, All-Area Player of the Year ... All-Area First Team as a junior ... All-Area Co-Player of the Year and All-State Tournament Team as a sophomore ... Finished career with 1,314 kills, 440 blocks and 674 digs ... Named AVCA Best and Brightest Second Team, High Honor Roll four times, National Honors Society Member for three years and nine-time Frontier League First Team Academics.

Why Brown?: "I chose Brown because the instant I was on the campus, it felt perfect. I could not imagine myself playing anywhere else or for someone else. I loved how the coaches ran things and how they balanced both the serious and fun parts of volleyball. The entire atmosphere of Brown is exactly what I wanted in a university."