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2025 Volleyball Roster

9 Caiti Barthel

  • Height 5-9
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Cathedral High School
  • Hometown Indianapolis, Ind.

Biography

NIL OPPORTUNITIES
Junior (2025)
* 2x winner of SoCon Defensive Player of the Week (10/6 & 11/17)
- Appeared in all 29 matches for the Mocs.
- One of three Chattanooga players to play in all 111 sets this season.
- Led the SoCon in digs with 548.
- Led Chattanooga and ranked second in the SoCon in digs per set with 4.94.
- Dished out 83 assists on the year, ranking third on the Mocs.
- Was fourth on the team in service aces with 25 for the season. 
- Posted a career-high 33 digs against Indiana State (9/19) and in the SoCon Tournament Quarterfinals vs. UNCG (11/21).
- Also had matches of 31 digs in win vs. Western Carolina (11/7) and 32 digs in a win vs. Wofford (10/4). 
- 11 matches with 20 or more digs. 
- Surpassed 900 career digs on 11/14 in a win over The Citadel. 
- Had double-digits digs in all but one SoCon match. 
- Posted her first career double-double with 13 digs and a career-high 10 assists in a loss at Memphis (9/11). 
- Also had a match with seven assists, which was a loss at UNCG (11/1).
- Delivered a career-high five service aces in a win at Tennessee State (9/20). 

Sophomore (2024)
* CSC Academic All-District Team
* Academic All-Southern Conference
* Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
* Fall Term Dean's List & AD Honor Roll
* Spring Term Dean's List & AD Honor Roll

- Appeared in 31 of the team’s 32 matches on the season, making a total of three starts for the Mocs.
- Saw action in 113 sets on the year.
- Recorded 179 digs over the course of her sophomore campaign, averaging 1.58 digs/set.
- Logged 15 service aces on the season, marking a new single-season high for her in her career.
- Also accounted for nine assists and a kill.
- Tied her career-high of 17 digs in the team’s September 10 matchup against Jacksonville State.
- This was one of her five double-digit dig performances of the season.
- Another double-digit dig outing for her came in the 2024 SoCon Tournament, where she finished with a team-high 12 digs against the Wofford Terriers.
- Logged her 400th career dig in that SoCon Tournament matchup as well.
- Was able to notch her other double-digit dig matches against the likes of UNCG (13), Bellarmine (12) and Western Carolina (11).
- Finished with a career-high three service aces at Mercer (10/05).
- Logged multiple aces against Alabama A&M (09/01) and ETSU (10/17) as well.
- Recorded a new career-high for assists in UTC’s 3-1 road win over Austin Peay (10/29), finishing the match with three.

Freshman (2023)
* Fall Term Dean's List & AD Honor Roll
* Spring Term Dean's List & AD Honor Roll

- Concluded her freshman campaign having played in 30 of UTC's 33 matches.
- Made a total of six starts for the Mocs.
- Appeared in a total of 102 sets.
- Ended the season with 230 total digs (2.25 digs/set).
- Barthel's dig total marks the most by a UTC freshman in a single season since Paige Gallentine recorded 264 in 2020-21.
- Tallied 13 assists and three aces on the season as well.
- Made her collegiate debut against New Orleans (08/25), where she logged 11 digs and two assists.
- Finished with double-digit digs in a total of eight times on the year.
- Notched a career-high of 17 digs twice on the season.
- First against Georgia State (09/08) and again against ETSU (10/27).
- Recorded her season-best of two aces in UTC's match against Austin Peay (09/06).

Cathedral High School (IN)
- 2022-23 IHSVCA Honorable Mention All-State
- 2022 AVCA All-America Watch List
- IHSVCA Academic All-State
- Played club for Munciana Volleyball

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2023Freshman

    DS/L
    5'9"
    9
  • 9

    2024Sophomore

    DS/L
    5'9"
    9
  • 9

    2025Junior

    DS/L
    5'9"
    9