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California Institute of Technology

2023 Caltech Women's Volleyball Roster

9 Halle Blend

  • Height 5-7
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Farmers Branch, Texas
  • High School Hockaday
  • Position S
  • Major Computer Science and Business

Biography

Research/STEM activities
Hockaday Walk STEM Director/Creator of Hockaday WalkSTEM® Program of online videos and guided WalkSTEM® tours...Led video presentation at 2019 National Coalition of Girls’ Schools Conference: Dream, Dare, Do: Girls as Makers, Inventors, Engineers, and Entrepreneurs - Girls walkSTEM: Strengthening Identity and Broadening Participation in STEM/STEAM..."Fostering STEM Diversity." The Hockaday School Magazine, Fall 2019...Interned with Commercial Real Estate Summer Intern, Blue Road Investments, LLC...Architectural Summer Intern with Gianna Wood Glaesmann, Architect...Summer Enrichment: Awesome Math Program – University of Texas at Dallas...The Hockaday School's Best Junior Research Papers, vol. 1, 2019..Conducted independent research on How We Understand Infinity: The Foundation of Calculus, The Theory of Partitions and q-series. 

Prior to Caltech
Two-time All-Conference (2018-19)...Three-time Dallas/Forth Worth Top Volleyball Players Stats Leader (2017-19)...Two-time Varsity Floor Captain (2018-19)... Four-year varsity starter...Six-time GJNC Team Qualification...Founder of Reach New Heights Inc Non-Profit...Youth Volleyball Coach...Cum Laude Society...National Merit Commended Scholar...College Board AP Scholar with Distinction...The Linda Hankinson History Research Paper Award...The Hockaday School Head of School Honor Roll...Hockaday Writing Center Internship...Hockaday H-Club Ambassador.

Personal
Born in Dallas, Texas...Daughter of Bob and Julie...Has two older brothers, Pearce and Connor...Additionally skilled with ceramics.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2020First-Year

  • 9

    2021Sophomore

    S
    5'7"
    9
  • 9

    2022Junior

    S
    5'7"
    9
  • 9

    2023Senior

    Setter
    5'7"
    9