USA WOMEN'S PLAYER PROFILE

Jillian Davis

Position: Libero
Height: 5-9 (175cm)
Weight:
Hometown: La Canada, Calif.
College: University of California-Berkeley
Birth Date: Aug. 25, 1985
Joined Team: January 2007

MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2007 – None

INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2007 – None

COLLEGE HIGHLIGHTS: Despite being a college walk-on as a freshman, Davis became University of California-Berkeley’s all-time dig leader with 1,810 after a record-breaking senior campaign of 548 digs, breaking her own school record of 538 digs from the previous year. She added 44 aces and 145 assists in her four-year career spanning a total of 399 games and 112 matches as the Bears’ starting libero. Davis set a school single-match record with 33 digs against Stanford on Oct. 1, 2004 during her sophomore season. However, she tore her anterior cruciate ligament during a hitting drill midway through her sophomore season. She earned honorable mention Pac-10 All-Freshman accolades in 2003, followed by honorable mention All-Pac 10 in 2005 and 2006.

PERSONAL: Born Jillian Michele Davis on Aug. 25, 1985, in La Canada, Calif.…Parents are Mike and Paula Davis…Sisters are Kendra and Lindsay…Hobbies include ocean life as she is “obsessed with Shark Week on the Discovery Channel…Likes gardens and flowers, watching football, karaoke and quoting movies…Favorite musical people are Otis Redding and Al Green as she likes all types of music, especially rap/hip hop and “Motown”…Favorite movies include anything with Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn…Favorite television programs are Entourage and Shark Week…Most admired people are her parents and Papa as “they have worked hard to get everything they have and are the most caring, generous people ever”…Favorite athletes are Peyton Manning and Ronaldinho…Favorite professional teams are Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Lakers…Attended University of California-Berkeley from 2003 to 2006 majoring in interdisciplinary studies...Attended Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in California from 1999-2003.

20 Questions

What do you like to do in your spare time?
I like to hang out with my family and friends, quote movies, watch football, and karaoke.

What do you envision doing as a career after competing for the national team?
I would like to work in sports somehow. I am interested in sports marketing. I would also like to look into sports broadcasting. I kinda want to be the next Bob Costas.

Other than family, who would you like to invite to complete a dinner foursome (individuals can be dead or alive)?
Will Ferrell, John Wooden, Parker Posey and Catherine O’Hara (they have to come together), Anna Faris, and Peyton Manning (so that’s more than four, but they would all be great), and Vince Vaughn

Who was your club coach prior to going to college?
Nabil Mardini and Turhan Douglas

Where would you like to spend a week’s vacation?
On Balboa Island in Newport Beach, with my family and friends. At the same time, I wouldn’t mind going to Vegas.

What is your favorite room in your house and why?
I love my family room, at my parent’s house in La Canada and at my house in Berkeley. It is where everyone hangs out.

What is the one luxury item that you could not do without?
Although I really am not a big phone talker, I guess I would have to say that it is something I cannot live without. How else would I talk to my family and friends now that I’m in Colorado?

What is your favorite television program?
Entourage, and Shark Week on the Discovery Channel

What is your favorite movie?
Oh so many. But some of my favorites are Just Friends, Tommy Boy, Dumb and Dumber, Wedding Crashers, What About Bob, Old School, 40 Year Old Virgin, Best in Show, all Christmas movies (Home Alone 1 and 2, Elf, Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation), Uncle Buck, and so many more

Who is the funniest player on the women’s national team?
Courtney Thompson, hands down

Are you a morning person, afternoon person or night person?
Definitely night. I can never fall asleep and never wake up without a seriously loud alarm clock.

On an airplane, would you rather, sleep, read, work on a computer or talk with the person sitting next to you?
I’m a big sleeper on planes. For some reason, they just put me right to sleep.

What sport would you be competing in if not for volleyball?
I think in another life, I would play tennis or golf if I was a girl. And if in my next life I am a boy, I will be a golfer or an NFL kicker.

What is your favorite food?
Steak, corn, and candy/cupcakes/cake. And my dad’s Italian wedding soup.

What is your favorite restaurant to eat at?
The Davis house, with my mom and dad cooking.

What was your favorite subject in school?
Lunch. Seriously. But I do like math.

If you would live as one other person (celebrity or not) for one day, who would it be?
I would live as Shaq O’Neal. I can’t imagine all the things I would see at seven feet off the ground. Quite honestly, I think I would just dunk all day long.

If you could have one super power, what would it be?
I don’t know if I would want a super power. But I do want a teleporter. I really want to be able to beam to anywhere in the world in an instance.

What is your favorite holiday?
I would have to say Halloween. My friends and I start planning our costumes a year in advance. Its kind of a big deal. But at the same time, Christmas is just amazing and I love everything associated with it, family, friends, food, decorations, Santa.

What is your pet peeve?
When my hands smell like food. I think I get it from my dad. He feels the same way about it. It’s the worst with In N’ Out, a delicious hamburger fast food restaurant in California. After you eat there, your hands smell like it for at least a day.

Posted and updated: Feb. 10, 2007