chattanooga MOCS

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Senior (2024)
* 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year nominee
* Virginia Tech Classic All-Tournament Team
* Ends her career with 229 block assists, ranking ninth all-time in program history
* Her 262 total blocks finished just narrowly off the program’s Top 10 all-time career blocks list
* Tied the program record for highest hitting percentage in a single match (minimum 12 attacks), after swinging .750 percent with nine kills in UTC’s 3-0 win over Rider on Sept. 19, 2024
* 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 28 matches in her final season with the Mocs, including making 21 starts.
- Saw action in a total of 86 sets.
- Ranked second on the team in blocks/set (0.62) and third in total blocks (53).
- Has finished with 50+ blocks in three of her four seasons with the program.
- Ended her season with 133 kills (1.55 kills/set), 38 digs, four assists and three aces.
- Her 133 kills were the most that she’s ever recorded in a single season in her career.
- It was also just her second time finishing a season with triple-digit kills in her career (first since 2021 as a freshman).
- Led UTC in blocks for a total of five matches on the year.
- Finished the year with a .234 hitting percentage.
- Set a program record for hitting percentage in a single match (minimum of 12 attacks) against Rider (09/19), ending with a .750 hitting percentage.
- Notched a season-high six blocks in that same Rider match, leading the team for the match.
- Recorded a career-high 15 kills for UTC against Samford (09/29).
- This was one of her two double-digit kill performances of the season.
- The other came against Western Carolina (11/15), where she finished with 11.
- Tallied two aces against Wofford (09/26), marking a season-high.

Junior (2023)
* Fall Term Dean's List, AD Honor Roll & 4.0 GPA List
* Spring Term Dean's List & AD Honor Roll
- Appeared in 25 of the team's 33 matches on the season.
- Started a total of 11 times for the Mocs.
- Played in a total of 57 sets.
- Logged 56 kills (0.98 kills/set), 44 blocks (0.77 blocks/set), nine digs and one assists on the year.
- Accounted for 82.5 points (1.45 points/set).
- Nine of her 44 blocks on the season were solo blocks.
- Led the team in blocks in a total of seven matches on the year.
- Set and tied her career-high for blocks (5) a total of three times on the season.
- Did it first against Charleston Southern (09/01) before doing it again versus Austin Peay (09/06) and Mercer (11/09).
- Saw her season-high of seven kills come on the road against Mercer (10/15).
- Finished the season with a .190 attack percentage (153 attempts).

Sophomore (2022)
*Chattanooga Classic All-Tournament Team
*Academic All-Southern Conference
* Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
- Played in 21 matches... made 10 starts... 64 sets in total.
- Finished fourth on the team in total blocks with 53.0... 0.83 blocks per set average was third best on the team.
- Recorded at least 1.0 block in all but one match... season-high 6.0 blocks came against Miami (OH) in the Chattanooga Classic title match... seven matches with 4.0 or more total blocks.
- Led the team in hitting percentage with a .277% clip... seven matches with at least three kills and an attack percentage .300% or better.
- Ranked sixth on the team with 66 total kills... 1.03 kills per set average.
- Registered a kill in all but three matches... season-high nine kills at a .571% hitting percentage came against Southern Indiana (9/9)... nine matches with four or more kills.
- Dean's List... AD's Honor Roll.

Freshman (2021)
- Played in 27 matches and made 22 starts
- Paced the Southern Conference with 1.30 blocks per set, logging 112 throughout the season.
- Averaged 1.27 kills per set with 109. Added 17 aces and 42 digs.
- Posted 11 blocks, 10 assists, vs. Toledo (9/4) becoming the first Moc to have 10 block assists in a match since 1998. 
- Set a season best with 10 kills vs Wofford (11/13). 
- Ranked third on the team with a .213 hitting percentage. 

Puerto Rico National Team
- Has competed on the Puerto Rico National Team for the following events:
- U20 2019 PanAmCup in Peru (4th place finish)
- U18 2019 PanAmCup in Mexico (2nd place finish)
- Girls U18 2019 World Championship (Top 16 finish)
- 2021 Junior Pan American Games in Colombia
- U21 PamAmCup in Mexico (Second-Best Blocker Award-Winner)
- Norceca Womens Final Four in Mexico (3rd place finish)

Bayamon Military Academy - Puerto Rico 
- Recorded back-to-back second-place finishes in the conference in 2017-18. 
- Finished second at the Back to Reality Tournament. 
- Was named to the honor roll in 2020 and 2021. 
- Has since been named into the Guaynabo Sports Hall of Fame as the 2023 Outstanding Young Athlete Award winner.

Personal
- Born February 14, 2003 
- Daughter of Wilmarie Carlo and Carlos Baez. 
- Has an older sister, Alanis.
- Member of the Puerto Rico National Team. Over the summer the team finished runners up at the Norceca Sub-18 tournament in Mexico. 
- Father played basketball at Southern New Hampshire University and played professionally in Puerto Rico. 
- Majoring in social work.
 

Fun fact: Does not like cats. 
Why UTC?: "The city and campus is so pretty and UTC offers an excellent social work program."