Annika Hester

2025 (Graduate):

Second Team All-WCC and WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention selection
WCC Defensive Player of the Week on Nov. 10 after a pair of double-doubles: 11 kills, 15 digs and five blocks at Saint Mary’s and 13 kills, 13 digs, three aces and a season high eight blocks against LMU
Season-high 14 kills at Pepperdine on Oct. 23, also contributing four blocks
Finished the year with 201 total kills (2.57/set) and 81 blocks (0.83/set)

2024 (Senior):

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 and 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