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Lacey Jeffcoat
GR | DS | 5-6 BIRMINGHAM, ALA. MOUNTAIN BROOK HS (TROY) 3
2021 (Troy)
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Played in 25 matches and appeared in 91 sets during her senior season... Led the team in digs and digs per set for the fourth straight year with 333 on the season averaging 3.66 per set...Recorded a season-best 28 digs against Arkansas State (10/2)...Had 10 or more digs in 18 of the 25 matches she appeared in, including surpassing 20 digs on four separate occasions... Ranked second on the team in assists for the second straight season with 78... Recorded 17 service aces with an average of 0.19 per set.
2020-21 (Troy)
Played in all 20 matches and appeared in 78 sets in her junior season... Led the team in digs and digs per set for the third straight year with 374 on the season averaging 4.85 per set which was good enough for sixth in the conference...Established a career-best 30 digs against Georgia State...Had 10 or more digs in every single match...Second on the team in assists with 44... Recorded 18 service aces.
2019 (Troy)
Played in all 33 matches for the Trojans, never missing a set...Named the Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Week once during the season...Selected to the Sun Belt All-Tournament team, aided by a then career-high 29-dig performance against Arkansas State in the first round...In the same match, she stepped up to the service line down 14-10 in the fifth set and helped Troy fend off four-straight match points to advance to the semifinals...Finished the season with 478 digs, the fifth-most in the Sun Belt and seventh-most in a season in school history...Also recorded 36 aces and 96 assists...Struck six aces in the match against Southern, the second-most by a conference player in a match in 2019...Registered 15-plus digs 15 times during the year, including a stretch of seven matches from Oct. 7 through Oct. 25
2018 (Troy)
Led the team and ranked eighth in the Sun Belt with 441 digs (3.8 per set)... Registered 30 service aces on the season...Recorded a career high 26 digs against Little Rock...Also tallied 84 assists and 11 kills on the season.
High School
Played three seasons at Mountain Brook High School...Led the Spartans to three consecutive 7A state championships her freshman, sophomore and junior years...Named first team all-state, first team all-metro and the AL.com Birmingham All-Region Player of the Year in 2016...Earned high honorable mention All-America honors from PrepVolleyball.com and was a finalist for the website’s Junior of the Year award...Recorded a school record 858 digs as a junior, which ranked third in AHSAA history at the time of her graduation... Lettered four years on the Spartan basketball team and was named all-area... Chose Troy over Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee and several others.
Personal
Full name is Elizabeth Lacey Jeffcoat...Born April 28, 2000, in Birmingham, Alabama...Daughter of Lizzie and John Jeffcoat...Mother, Lizzie, played tennis at Ole Miss from 1993-1994...Has two siblings, Sam and Kate.