2008: Appeared in 129 sets for the Phoenix during her junior year...Finished the season with a .159 attack percentage…Averaged 2.12 kills per set…Tallied 42 total blocks, including 39 assisted blocks and 3 solo blocks…Recorded a season-best 16 kills against Western Carolina…Had double-digit kills in seven matches…Posted back-to-back five-block matches against UNC Greensboro and The Citadel to tie her career-high…Tallied seven digs at Wofford.
2007: Started 19 of the 32 matches she played in...Finished the season with 197 kills for an average of 2.03 kills per game...Hit a .213 mark on the season...Tied her career-high with five blocks against Florida Gulf Coast and The Citadel...Had nine matches with double-digit kills...Earned a season-best 19 kills against Appalachian State...Hit over .400 in five matches, including a .765 against North Carolina Central.
2006: Started 12 of the 30 matches in which she played...Posted a career-high 24 kills against UNC Greensboro...Recorded a double-double at Wofford with 10 kills and 10 digs...Tallied seven service aces — tied for fourth-best tally ever by an Elon player — vs. Delaware State...Posted a career-high five total blocks at Georgia Southern and recorded four blocks on two other occasions...Finished the season with 40 blocks and 148 kills.
High School: Earned all-state honors in 2004 and 2005...Named all-conference four consecutive years...Honored as the conference player of the year in 2005... A five-year varsity starter and four-time team MVP...Led her team to a third-place finish in the state in 2003 and 2004 and a second-place spot in 2005...Paced her squad to a conference championship...Club team was the Pulse VBC.
Personal: Full name is Amanda Brittany Wilson... Mandy is the daughter of Timothy and Joy Wilson... Born July 8, 1988...Major is exercise sport science.
Get to Know Wilson
Nickname: Mandy
Favorite color: Light blue or green
Favorite place on campus: By the Alamance fountain at dusk
Surprising fact: I don’t like shoes and would prefer to walk barefoot everywhere.
Favorite class: Anatomy
Hero: Jim Elliot (missonary to the Auca Indians in Ecuador)
Favorite food: Anything with cinnamon
Words to live by: “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16: 25-26
