2025 Beach Volleyball Roster

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32 Ella Dreibholz

  • Height 5-10
  • Class Senior
  • Last School(s) Santa Monica HS
  • Hometown Santa Monica, Calif.

Biography

As a Junior (2024):
• Ranked second on the team with 25 wins and a .735 win percentage
• Posted a 25-9 overall record going 10-3 on court 4 and 14-6 on court 5
• Moved into 4th on the all-time wins list with 78 and is now just six wins from brekaing the program record
• Posted the 9th-highest single season win percentage alongside Portia Sherman (.818)
• Currently has the highest career win perecentage on court 4 (.795)
• Named to Pac-12 All-Academic Team

As a Sophomore (2023):
• Posted a 23-13 overall record going 9-4 on court 1 and court 4
• Reached 50 career wins
• Went 12-8 with Maya Gessner including an 8-4 mark on court 1
• Went 9-4 on court 4 with Lexi McKeown
    • The pair finished their career with a 32-9 (.781) record that's good for 10th on the career win percentage list
• Named to Pac-12 All-Academic Team

As a Freshman (2022):
• Tied for the most individual wins in program history as she recorded 28 victories in her debut season and went 28-9
• Posted a 23-7 mark while teamed with Lexi McKeown, tied for the second-most wins by a pair in school history  
• Recorded the ninth-best season-long winning percentage by a pair in school history with a .767 mark 
• Currently ranked second in school history in career winning percentage with a .756 mark as an individual 
• Recorded 11 ranked wins over No. 9 Hawaii, No. 3 TCU, No. 18 Pepperdine, No. 12 Cal Poly, No. 17 Arizona, No. 16 Long Beach State, No. 1 USC, No. 9 Stanford, No. 8 Stanford, No. 17 Arizona and No. 8 Stanford alongside McKeown. 

Club:
• Played for head coach Heather Lowe at Valley Girls
 
High School:
• Ocean League MVP for indoor volleyball in 2018
• Two-time Ocean League First-Team selection in 2018 and 2019
• Helped her team to the CIF Finals as a freshman
• Member of the National Honor Society
• President and founder of M.D.s To Be
• Created a program to certify her fellow students in CPR to help Increase the number of bystanders trained in CPR could help reduce the number of people who die from cardiovascular disease
• Volunteer at the Santa Monica Aquarium
 
Personal:
• Daughter of Nicola Fergusson and Kurt Dreibholz
• Plans on majoring in public health and business and wants to attend medical school after college
• Lists her hobbies as surfing, skiing, and traveling

Historical Player Information

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    2022Freshman

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    5'10"
    32
  • 32

    2023Sophomore

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    5'10"
    32
  • 32

    2024Junior

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    5'10"
    32
  • 32

    2025Senior

    5'10"
    32