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Sacramento State

2025 Beach Volleyball Roster

18 Savannah Risley

  • Height 5-8
  • Year Junior
  • Hometown Sacramento, Calif.
  • Prev School Pleasant Grove HS

Biography

2025 Beach Season
• Played in 15 matches during the season
• Played each of those matches with partner Kate Doorn at the No. 5 spot in the lineup
• Won back-to-back matches against Pepperdine and Morehead State
• Also posted a three-set victory (18-16 in the third) against Portland
• A Big West all-academic selection

2024 Beach Season
• Played in exhibition matches during her second season with the Hornets

2023 Beach Season
• Played in a number of exhibitions during her first season with the Hornets

High School
• A 2022 graduate of Pleasant Grove High School in Elk Grove, Calif
• Played three years of varsity volleyball
• Named first team all-Delta League all three seasons
• Helped the Eagles to a three-year combined record of 42-23 overall and 23-7 in league
• That includes a 2020 league championship, and 2021 regional semifinal appearance at the state tournament
• Team MVP during a senior season in which she averaged 8.6 assists, 1.6 digs and 0.5 aces per set
• Team captain during both her junior and senior seasons

Personal
• Daughter of David and Jackie Risley
• A nutrition and food major
• Played for Omni Volleyball Club of Sacramento where she was the team captain
• Father, David, played football at Sacramento State from 1987-90

Historical Player Information

  • 25

    2023Freshman

    5'8"
    25
  • 18

    2024Sophomore

    5'8"
    18
  • 18

    2025Junior

    5'8"
    18

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