Annika Hester

Position:
Opposite
Height:
6-4
Class:
Graduate Student
High School:
Falmouth HS
Hometown:
Falmouth, Maine

Oregon State
2024
• First Team All-WCC
• Appeared in 110 sets across the 28 matches played
• Led Oregon State in kills with 340, ranked eighth in the WCC
• Hit .441 on 34 swings, collected 20 kills to just five errors in a five-set win over San Francisco (Oct. 12)
• Had 25 kills in a road win over Gonzaga (Oct. 19) and also tallied a season-best 25 points
• Season-best eight digs in the season finale at Pepperdine (11/30)

San Diego (2021-23)
• Appeared in 53 sets across 23 matches played in two seasons (took redshirt in 2022)
• Tallied 58 kills and totaled 12 digs
• Recorded 40 kills in 2023, including a season-best 11 against Tennessee, along with a career-best 13.0 points (Aug. 31)

HIGH SCHOOL & CLUB
• Three-time Gatorade Player of the Year (2018, 19, 20-21) in Maine
• 2020 Under Armour All-America First Team
• Twice named Southern Maine Activities Association (SMAA) MVP (2018, 19)
• Three-time SMAA All-Conference Team choice (2017-19)
• Back-to-back SMAA Class A State Champ (2018-19)
• Holds record at high school - Falmouth HS - for kills in a match (36)
• Won NERVA Regional Tournament with Maine Juniors VBC in 2018
• Trained with USA Volleyball High Performance (A1, 2019 and 2020; A1 Beach, 2019; A2, 2018)
• Finished third at Swedish National Beach Volleyball Championship Tournament (Tylösand, Sweden) in 2017 with partner Johanna Bengtsson
• National Honors Society member
• Volunteered at Good Shepherd Food Bank and served as a volunteer volleyball coach at Falmouth Middle School

PERSONAL
• Daugher of Louise and Matt Hester
• Has one brother, Niklas
• Father, Matt, played basketball at Hope College before professionally and later coached in Denmark
• Mother, Louise, played professional basketball in Sweden and Denmark before collegiately in the USA at Grand Valley State
• In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, baking, painting, traveling and spending time with friends and family