Jessie Golden

Photo by: David Silverman Photography

Class:
Junior
Position:
Libero/Defensive Specialist
Height:
5-6
Hometown:
Tampa, Fla.
High School:
Carrollwood Day School

2024: Named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and First Team All-Ivy ... Led the Ivy League with 4.10 digs per set and 381 total digs ... Finished the year with a team-high 28 service aces ... Appeared in all 25 matches and 93 sets ... Collected double-figure digs in all but three matches ... Had six matches with at least 20 digs ... Started the season with six-straight matches with double-figure digs ... Had 21 digs at New Hampshire (Sept. 21) ... Posted back-to-back 20-dig matches against Cornell (20) and Dartmouth (25) ... Posted 22 digs with five assists at Yale (Oct. 26) ... Earned her 1,000th-career dig against Penn (Nov. 1) ... Had 24 digs and four assists against Princeton (Nov. 3) and 20 digs and five assists against Harvard (Nov. 8) ... Picked up a double-double with 12 digs and 10 assists against Dartmouth (Nov. 9).

2023: Was named Ivy League Co-Defensive Player of the Year and First Team All-Ivy ... Led the Ivy League and was fourth in the NCAA in digs per set (5.65) by 1.31 digs per set ... Appeared in and started 23 matches, playing in 79 sets ... Collected 111 assists and 18 service aces ... Averaged 1.41 assists per set ... Finished with double-figure digs in all 23 matches and had 20+ digs in 12 matches ... Had 22 digs, three assists and one ace against Rhode Island (Sept. 1) ... Posted 20 digs with five assists and three aces at Rhode Island (Sept. 2) ... Had 28 digs, six assists and two aces at George Mason (Sept. 8) ... Posted three-straight matches with 20+ digs against Robert Morris (22), Yale (25) and Princeton (24) from Sept 9-29 ... Finished with 26 digs and eight assists at Cornell (Oct. 7) ... Collected 20 digs with five assists against Yale (Oct. 27) ... Had a season-high nine assists to go with 24 digs at Penn (Oct. 27) ... Finished the season with three-straight 20+ dig matches ... Had 22 digs in the season finale against Columbia (Nov. 11), then posted 21 digs with two aces against Princeton in the Ivy League Semifinal (Nov. 17) and had a season-high 29 digs with four assists against Yale in the Ivy League Final (Nov. 18).

2022: Appeared in 25 matches, playing in 97 sets ... Led the team with 27 service aces and was second on the team in digs per set (2.74) and total digs (266) ... Finished 10th in the Ivy League in digs per set for both the full season (2.74) and the conference season (2.78) ... Collected 26 assists and one kill ... Began the season with 16 digs and had an assist against Rhode Island (Sept. 2) ... Had a season-high four service aces and nine digs against Air Force (Sept. 3) ... Finished with 12 digs against Texas A&M Corpus-Christi (Sept. 10) ... Matched her season-high with four aces and had eight digs against Lindenwood (Sept. 17) ... Picked up 11 digs in the Ivy League opener against Yale (Sept. 23) ... Collected 19 digs at Dartmouth (Oct. 17) ... Finished the season with eight-straight matches with double-figure digs ... Had 16 digs and three service aces at Penn (Nov. 5) ... Collected 19 digs and a kill against Princeton in the Ivy League Tournament semifinal (Nov. 18) ... Had a season-high 20 digs and had two assists against Yale in the Ivy League Tournament final (Nov. 19).

Before Brown: Member of the OTVA Volleyball Club ... Won the Florida Class 4A State Championship ... Named Prep Volleyball Florida All-State Honorable Mention, AVCA All-State, All-Hillsborough County Team and All-Tampa Bay Team Honorable Mention ... Holds Carrollwood Day School records in digs (1,422), aces (216), service points (749) and service receptions (1,551) ... Named AVCA Academic All-State.

Why Brown?: “I chose Brown because I was excited to find a place to pursue both the highest level of academics and athletics. When I visited the campus, I felt there was a collective, welcoming community that I wanted to be a part of. I'm so humbled to have the opportunity to play the sport I love at a Division I university, while maintaining a rigorous curriculum."