From Belgrade To Berkeley - Feature
Inside The Classroom
Career (2018-2022):
• Graduated in Spring 2021 with a degree in business administration
• 2021 & 2022 AVCA All-American Second Team
• 2019 All-American Honorable Mention by AVCA and Volleyball Magazine
• 2018, 2019 and 2021 All-Pac-12 First Team
• Four-time All-Pac-12 All-Academic Honoree
• Finished her career with 79 wins, the second-most wins in school history.
• Has 73 career victories at the No. 1 pair, most in school history and has the best winning percentage at the top spot with a .695 mark
• Ranks fifth in school history in winning percentage with a .699 mark
• Has two of the top-12 winningest pairs in school history in total wins as she has 22 alongside Caroline Schafer and 18 with Aleixa Inman
• Teamed with Schafer to record 21 wins at the top spot in the lineup, most in school history
• Teamed with Iya Lindahl to record a .900 winning percentage at the top spot, the best winning percentage at that lineup position in school history
As a Fifth-Year (2022):
• AVCA Second Team All-American
• Cal Academic Study Center Student-Athlete of the Year
• Went 11-5 at the No. 1 position before recording an injury and missing the rest of the season
• Recorded ranked victories over No. 15 Long Beach State, No. 9 Hawaii, No. 18 Pepperdine and No. 12 Cal Poly alongside Ana Costa
As a Senior (2021):
• AVCA Second Team All-American
• First Team All-Pac-12
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Posted a 20-8 record while partnering with Caroline Schafer, primarily at the top spot in the lineup
• Recorded 10 ranked wins over No. 7 Loyola Marymount, No. 6 Hawaii, No. 5 Cal Poly, No. 12 Arizona, No. 7 Stanford, No. 11 Pepperdine, No. 10 Stanford, No. 10 Stanford, No. 8 Grand Canyon and No. 8 Arizona
• Teamed with Schafer to record 20 wins, tied for third-most wins in a season by a Cal pair and fifth-most by any individual in a season
• Had a .714 winning percentage, the ninth-best mark in school history
• Recorded 19 wins at the top spot in the lineup, most at the No. 1 pair by any Cal duo
• Named Pac-12 Pair of the Week alongside Schafer on April 21 after going 4-0 and defeating three ranked teams at the Pac-12/WCC Challenge
As a Junior (2020):
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Compiled an overall record of 9-1 at the top spot in the lineup.
• Recorded two wins vs. ranked teams.
• Secured the victory over no. 5 USC, by teaming with Iya Lindahl to claim the winning point on court one.
As a Sophomore (2019):
• AVCA All-American Honorable Mention
• Volleyball Magazine All-American Honorable Mention
• All-Pac-12 First Team
• Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team
• Notched a 18-9 record overall while playing 26 matches at No. 1 pair
• Teamed with Jordan Polo to notch a 15-7 record at the top spot
• Recorded seven wins over pairs from ranked teams
As a Freshman (2018):
• Named to the All-Pac-12 First Team
• Named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
• Earned Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team honors
• Went 21-11, playing primarily on the team's No. 1 pair
• Compiled record of 14-7 with Alexia Inman and 3-3 with Jessica Gaffney, both as the No. 1 pair
• Went a combined 4-1 on the Nos. 2 and 3 pair
Personal:
• Qualifier for the FIVB U21 World Championships in Udon Thani, Thailand
• Won the bronze medal at the of the FIVB U21 World Championships in Nanjing, China
• Won the bronze medal at the of the FIVB U19 World Championships in Larnaka, Cyprus
• Won inaugural High School Queen of the Beach in Hermosa Beach in 2016
• Member of the A1 USA Beach Volleyball Team from 2014-16
• Member of the A1 USA Beach Volleyball Team from 2014-16
• Also plays on Cal's
indoor volleyball team; earned All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention in 2018, Named AVCA National Player of the Week in 2019
• Parents are Alex and Lisa Mirkovic
• Graduated in Spring 2021 with a degree in business administration, getting her master's in information & data science
