Alaina Bergsma (born March 30, 1990) is an American former

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player. She is tall and played the position of

hitter In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner, to dri ...

. She was on the

United States women's national volleyball team The United States women's national volleyball team participates in international volleyball competitions and friendly games, and is governed by USA Volleyball. Their last head coach was three-time Olympic gold medalist and retired dominant be ...

College

During her college career at the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a Public university, public research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1876, the university is organized into nine colleges and schools and offers 420 undergraduate and gra ...

, Bergsma won the 2009 All-West Coast Conference Team and was Freshman of the Year. In 2010, she was an All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention. In 2011, she was selected as an AVCA Third-Team All-American and to the All-Pac-12/Region First Team. During the 2012 season, she was the

AVCA The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) is an organization of over 9,000 members, incorporated as a private non-profit corporation, non-profit educational corporation in 1981, as the Collegiate Volleyball Coaches Association. It is cur ...

National Player of the Year, Pac-12 Player of the Year, AVCA First-Team All-American, All-Pac-12/Region First Team and the Capital One Third-Team Academic All-American. Bergsma won the

Honda Sports Award The Honda Sports Award is an annual award in the United States, given to the best collegiate female athlete in each of twelve sports. There are four nominees for each sport, and the twelve winners of the Honda Sports Award are automatically in t ...

as the nation's best collegiate female volleyball player in 2013.

Club volleyball

Bergsma won the 2014 Philippine Superliga Grand Prix Finals Most Valuable Player award and the Superliga crown. She joined the Korean V-League club

Daejeon KGC Daejeon CheongKwanJang Red Sparks (), also spelled as JungKwanJang Red Sparks, is a South Korean professional women's volleyball team. The team was founded in 1988 and became fully professional in 2005. They are based in Daejeon and are members ...

for the 2016/17 season. and helped Daejeon to the silver medal in the Korean Cup. She scored 55 points in the Korean League second semifinal match against IBK Altos, scoring 50 points in attack and five blocks, tying as the third major total points ever recorded. Her team lost the semifinal 2-3 to IBK and settled with the bronze medal. In May 2017 she renewed her contract with Daejeon.

Personal life

Bergsma studied sports business in college. In 2012, she won the

Miss Oregon USA The Miss Oregon USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Oregon in the Miss USA pageant and the name of the title held by that winner. It is currently produced by Pageants NW Productions based in Puyallu ...

pageant and represented Oregon in

Miss USA 2012 Miss USA 2012 was the 61st Miss USA pageant, held on June 3, 2012, at The AXIS, located inside the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada, and it was televised live on NBC. Alyssa Campanella of California crowned her successor Olivia Culp ...

, where she did not place but was awarded "Miss Photogenic".

Clubs

* Mets de Guaynabo (2013) *

Minas Tênis Clube Minas Tênis Clube (short, just ''Minas'') is a social, recreational and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. By 2013, it has more than 73,000 members. Its patrimony comprises two urban units, the Minas I and Minas II, and two country units, ...

(2013–2014) * Petron Blaze Spikers (2014–2015) * Gigantes de Carolina (2015) * Supreme Chonburi (2015) * Yunnan Volleyball (2015-2016) * Gresik Petrokimia (2016) *

(2016–2019)

Awards

College

* 2009 All-West Coast Conference Team * 2009 WCC Freshman of the Year * 2010 All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention * 2011 AVCA Third-Team All-American * 2012 AVCA National Player of the Year * 2012 Pac-12 Player of the Year * 2012 AVCA First-Team All-American * 2012 Capital One Third-Team Academic All-American *2013

for volleyball

Individuals

* '' 2014 Philippine Superliga Grand Prix "Finals Most Valuable Player"'' * ''2016/17 Korean V-League "Best Opposite"'' * ''2016/17 Korean V-League "All-Star Game Most Valuable Player"''

Clubs

* 2014 Philippine Superliga Grand Prix – Simple cup icon

Champion, with Petron Blaze Spikers * 2016 Korean Cup – Gorm silver cup

Runner-Up, with

* 2016/17 Korean V-League – Bronze medal, with Daejeon KGC

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bergsma, Alaina 1990 births Living people American beauty pageant winners American women's volleyball players Beauty pageant contestants from Oregon Miss USA 2012 delegates Oregon Ducks women's volleyball players Sportspeople from Chandler, Arizona Opposite hitters American expatriate volleyball players in Brazil Expatriate volleyball players in the Philippines Expatriate volleyball players in Thailand American expatriate volleyball players in China Expatriate volleyball players in Indonesia Expatriate volleyball players in South Korea American expatriate sportspeople in South Korea American expatriate sportspeople in Thailand American expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia American expatriate sportspeople in the Philippines 21st-century American sportswomen