Emma Thygesen

Class:
Freshman
Height:
6-0
Hometown:
Menlo Park, Calif.
High School:
Menlo School

2016 | Stats: Served team as captain … Played in 20 matches and 41 sets … Posted a career-high 1.73 digs per set on 71 total digs … Added six aces, five kills, and three assists on the season … Increased her output to 2.16 digs per set in Ivy matches … Tallied 10 or more digs three times … Logged a career-high 15 digs vs. Penn (Nov. 4).

2015 | Stats: Played in 23 matches and 64 sets … Averaged 1.44 kills and 0.62 digs per set … Tallied a season-high 12 kills vs. Bucknell (Sept. 4) … Totaled 92 kills, 40 digs, 23 blocks, and six aces on the year … Compiled 10 kills and eight digs vs. Holy Cross (Sept. 18).

2014 | Stats: Competed in 24 matches and 61 total sets … Finished with 84 kills and 32 digs and added 15 total blocks … Averaged 1.38 kills per set, 0.52 digs per set, and 0.25 blocks per set … Posted 11 kills vs. Cornell (Oct. 18) … Notched 10 digs to go with six kills at Penn (Oct. 11) … Registered 10 kills vs. Dartmouth (Nov. 1).

2013 | Stats: Appeared in 11 matches and 14 sets as a freshman … Recorded six kills, seven digs and two block assists … Made collegiate debut and logged two kills and two digs in season opener at New Hampshire (Sept. 6).

Before Brown: Four-year Varsity Volleyball letter-winner at Menlo School ... Helped lead team to state section quarterfinals in Senior year ... WBAL All League ... MaxPreps Player of the Week ... Team co-captain ... Played club volleyball for City Beach, Vision and Paye's and helped lead teams to qualify for five consecutive USAV Junior National Championships ... Also earned letters for Varsity Basketball in Freshman and Sophomore Years at Menlo ... Highest Academic Honors at Menlo ... Student Government Senator ... Co-founded Menlo Math and Science help center ... College Board AP Scholar with Distinction ... National Merit Commended Scholar ... Grandfather Niels Thygesen was European Junior National Golf Champion and 5-time Denmark National Golf Champion.

Personal: Born on June 2, 1995 … Daughter of Terry and Allan Thygesen … Has two brothers, Christoffer and James, and one sister, Elise … Applied Mathematics-Biology concentrator.

CAREER HIGHS
Kills: 12 vs. Bucknell (Sept. 4, 2015)
Digs: 15, vs. Penn (Nov. 4, 2016)
Assists: 1, 7x, last vs. Columbia (Oct. 28, 2016)
Service Aces: 2, 2x, last vs. Cornell (Oct. 29, 2016)
Total Blocks: 3, 3x, last at Princeton (Nov. 7, 2015)