2025 Volleyball Roster

7 Mikayla Hayden

  • Position Middle Blocker
  • Height 6-1
  • Class Senior
  • Last School(s) Buford HS
  • Hometown Buford, Ga.

Biography

CAREER HONORS
  • 2024 Rose City Showdown MVP
  • 2022 Cal Tournament All-Tournament

As a Junior (2024)
  • Appeared and started in 23 matches and 81 sets
  • Hit a team-high .324 on the year, 12th-best of all ACC players
  • Totaled 10 kills (.308) against Virginia (Nov. 15)
  • Notched a total of 23 kills and zero errors in the second week of November with 12 (.600) against No. 16 Georgia Tech (Nov. 8) and 11 (.611) against Clemson (Nov. 9)
  • Posted nine kills with a .471 hitting percentage and five blocks against Wyoming (Sept. 13)
  • Totaled nine kills (.348) at Saint Mary’s (Sept. 10)
  • Hit .682 with 15 kills against San Francisco (Aug. 31) for the best individual hitting percentage of the season by any Cal player with at least three attacks per set
  • Rose City Showdown MVP

As a Sophomore (2023)
  • Competed in 31 matches and 114 sets
  • Led the Bears with a .277 hitting percentage (min. 3 attacks/set) and 91 total blocks
  • Posted six matches with double-digit kills, hitting above .333 in each
  • Ranked 12th in the conference with 16 solo blocks
  • Notched a career-high 13 kills against Southeastern Louisiana (Sept. 8)

As a Freshman (2022)
  • Appeared in 108 sets across 29 matches
  • Led the team with 109 blocks, good for 6th overall in the conference (and tied for the No. 1 freshman)
  • Reached seven total blocks in two separate matches: vs. UC Davis (Sept. 17) and vs. Arizona State (Nov. 20)
  • Also posted 158 kills on the season, third-most on the team
  • Named to the All-Cal Tournament Team

Prior to Cal: 2021 ITG Next Georgia Female Athlete of the Month (December)... 2021 Georgia High School Assocation (GHSA) State Champion... 2021 Gwinnett County Super Six Selection… recorded more than 1,000 kills in high school career… 2020 6A GHSA State Champion… 2020 All-Gwinnett County Team selection… 2020 Gwinnett County Player of the Year… 2020 Regional Player of the Year… 2020 All-Region Selection… 2020 All-State Selection… 2019 All-State Honorable Mention… 2019 All-Region honoree… 2019 Regional Player of the Year… 2019 PrepVolleyball Soph 79… 2019 PrepVolleyball Top 150… 2018 All-State selection… 2018 All-Region team… 2018 PrepVolleyball Frosh 59 Highest Honorable Mention.

Personal: Majoring in molecular & cell biology at Cal... spent seven years as an ice skater prior to playing volleyball... daughter of Corin and Russell Hayden.

Statistics

Season:
2025

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Historical Player Information

  • 7

    2022Freshman

    Middle Blocker
    6'1"
    7
  • 7

    2023Sophomore

    Middle Blocker
    6'1"
    7
  • 7

    2024Junior

    Middle Blocker
    6'1"
    7
  • 7

    2025Senior

    Middle Blocker
    6'1"
    7