Personal
Parents are Brent and Marla Lott ... is the oldest of five children with three brothers and one sister ... father is 6-foot-6 and mother is 5-foot-10; at 6-foot-2 Erica is the tallest child in the family ... started in volleyball with a club team in the eighth grade ... competed on the U.S. A2 National Team during the summer of 2007 ... chose BYU over Stanford and Utah ... humanities major.
Before BYU
Club: Played for the Players Volleyball Club for four years (1999-2002) ... qualified for nationals in Salt Lake City in 2001 and 2002 ... team finished ninth in 2001 and was USA Junior Olympic Volleyball Champions (under-18) in 2002 ... Junior Olympic All-Tournament Team (2002) ... traveled to Russia to compete in the Moscow-Utah Games with Cougar teammate Kim Wilson as part of USA Volleyball High Performance Team in summer 2003 ... coached by Dave and Lori Richards.
High School: Four-year letterwinner at Mountain View High School in Orem, Utah ... team offensive player of the year in 2001 and most valuable player in 2002 ... named first-team all-state (4A) by The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret Morning News in 2001 and 2002 ... also lettered two years in track ... coached by Kayla Walker ... senior class historian.
Stats
CAREER MATCH HIGHS
KILLS: 26 vs Colorado State, 9/16/06
HITTING PERCENTAGE: .722 vs New Mexico, 10/30/04
ASSISTS: 3 (twice)
ACES: 5 (twice)
DIGS: 21 at UNLV, 11/23/07
BLOCKS: 14 at Wyoming, 10/12/06
YEAR-BY-YEAR STATISTICS
Year MP-GP K E A Pct. Ast. SA SE RE Dig BS BA TB BE BHE
2004 28-92 313 124 707 .267 10 22 63 16 71 8 49 57 13 1
2005 29-107 433 186 1111 .222 11 24 65 27 201 13 42 55 16 0
2006 29-101 381 162 921 .238 18 23 57 32 218 1 107 108 17 1
2007 31-116 386 187 955 .208 28 29 78 36 280 4 102 106 29 1
Total 117-416 1513 659 3694 .231 57 74 198 84 601 16 324 340 65 3
Received American Volleyball Coaches Association West All-Region Honorable Mention after switching from the outside to the rightside in the offseason ... also named All-Mountain West Conference after finishing the year third in the MWC in points, fourth in kills and ninth in blocks ... averaged 3.82 kills per game, 2.16 digs per game and 1.10 blocks per game while totaling 381 kills, 18 assists, 23 aces, 218 digs and 108 blocks on .238 hitting in 29 matches ... second on the team in kills and aces and third in blocks ... led the Cougars in kills nine times, hitting percentage five times and blocks four times ... BYU was 5-0 when she paced the Cougars in attack efficiency and 4-0 when she led the team in rejections ... recorded 10 double-doubles on the year while reaching double-digits in kills 23 times, in digs on eight occasions and in blocks twice ... topped the 20-kill mark in four matches and tallied at least 10 blocks twice ... missed two matches due to a back injury ... named MVP of the UCF Fall Invitational after recording double-digit kills in all three matches and posting a season-high .556 hitting percentage against Stetson ... also named MVP of the BYU Molten Classic after leading BYU with 20 kills in a four-game win over then-No. 4 Stanford, earning MWC Player of the Week honors ... notched a career-high 26 kills against Colorado State including three straight to give BYU a 15-11 game-five win ... posted a career-high 14 blocks at Wyoming, tying the MWC record for individual block assists in a match set by Cougar Lindsey Metcalf in 2002, while adding 20 kills and coming one dig shy of her first triple-double.
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