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2024 Men's Volleyball

Gil Talbot

2 Ethan Smith

  • Height 6-7
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Laguna Niguel, Calif.
  • High School Aliso Niguel
  • Position Middle Blocker
  • Concentration Economics

Biography

Senior | 2024
Finishes career with the highest career hitting percentage in program history (0.475)…2024 EIVA Player to Watch…First-Team All-EIVA…Named to the All-EIVA Academic Team…Received EIVA Defensive Player of the Week award on Feb. 19…Appeared in 75 sets across 21 matches…Totaled 114 kills, 20 assists, 16 aces, 45 digs, and 69 total blocks across 2024…Tallied nine kills with a .538 hitting percentage in the season opener versus USC (Jan. 11)…Recorded 10 kills with a .563 hitting percentage, three aces, five digs, and five total blocks against Sacred Heart (Jan. 26)…Recorded 10 kills with a .667 hitting percentage, four digs, and five total blocks against Lincoln Memorial (Feb. 10)…Tallied nine kills with a .667 hitting percentage, four digs, and six total blocks against CUI (Mar. 13)…Registered 10 kills with a hitting percentage of .600, an ace, three digs, and two total blocks against Dominican (Mar. 23).

Junior | 2023
All-EIVA Second Team ... All-EIVA Academic Team ... Preseason EIVA Player to Watch ... Started all 25 matches and played in 90 of 93 sets ... Hit a team-best .394 (min. 100 TA) ... Finished with 130 kills to rank third on the team ... Recorded the second-most total blocks on the team (63) ... Had 34 digs, 12 service aces and nine assists ... Had three double-figure kill outings (10 vs. McKendree, Jan. 28; 10 vs. Daemen, Feb. 3; 10 vs. LIU, March 4) ... Blocked a season-high seven attempts at Princeton (Feb. 24) ... Posted a season-best six digs at Purdue Fort Wayne (Jan. 21) ... Tallied two service aces vs. Sacred Heart (March 22).

Sophomore | 2022
AVCA Honorable Mention All-America ... All-EIVA Academic Team ... EIVA Offensive Player of the Week on April 18 ... Harvard single season record .531 hitting percentage, finished No. 1 in the country in hitting percentage ... totaled 209 kills with 22 service aces and 11 assists ... 39 digs and a .727 reception percentage with team-high 84 blocks ... Tallied 17 kills on a .708 hitting percentage with 10 blocks at George Mason on Apr. 15 ... Posted 13 kills on a .478 hitting percentage with seven blocks ... Tallied seven kills on a perfect 1.000 hitting percentage with three blocks against Penn State on Feb. 11 ... 15 matches over .500 hitting percentage ... Nine matches with double-digit kills.

First-Year | 2020
Notched two aces against Mount Olive on Feb. 8 ... Hit a .700 clip against and recorded one solo block against Barton on Feb. 7 ... Totaled 10 kills on 13 attacks with three block assists against St. Francis Brooklyn on Feb. 2 ... Had eight block assists against Sacred Heart on Jan. 31 ... Recorded four digs against Hawai''i on Jan. 11.

Before Harvard
Three-year letterwinner at Aliso Niguel … Team captain … 2019 AVCA Boys High School All-American Watch List … 2019 USA U19 Youth National Training Team member … Won NORCECA Continental Championship Silver Medalist … USA High Performance Championship International Gold Medalist … 2017 USA High Performance Championship National Bronze Medalist … 2018 all-league first team … 2018 Aliso Niguel team MVP … 2017 all-league second team … Four-time scholar athlete … Father and Uncle played four years of collegiate volleyball at the University of Waterloo … Uncle played on the Canadian Volleyball National Team from 1991-94 and professionally in Europe for 10 years.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2

    2020First-Year

    Middle Blocker
    6'7"
    2
  • 2

    2022Sophomore

    Middle Blocker
    6'7"
    2
  • 2

    2023Junior

    Middle Blocker
    6'7"
    2
  • 2

    2024Senior

    Middle Blocker
    6'7"
    2