Murphy Troy
Position: Outside Hitter/Opposite
Height: 6-8
Weight: 235 lbs.
High School/Grad Year: St. Louis (Mo.) University High School/ 2007
College: USC
PERSONAL: Born Murphy Edward Troy on May 31, 1989 in St. Louis, Mo. ... Parents are John Troy and Sally Miller... Has a brother Phineas (1985) and a sister Sadie (1987)... Began playing volleyball in 1999 with Midwest Select Volleyball Club... Favorite book is Catcher in the Rye... Favorite sports team is the St. Louis Cardinals and favorite athlete is Albert Pujols... Hobbies include basketball and football... Most admired person is his mother... Has a yellow Labrador named Buster... Currently attends USC majoring in physics... Was named a 2009 Marks Scholar
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2011 - World University Games in Shenzhen, China... London International Invitational (Bronze medal)... Pan American Cup (Silver Medal) 2008 - NORCECA Continental Championships, El Salvador (Bronze medal). 2007 - FIVB World Youth Championships, Baja, Calif. and Mexico. 2006 - NORCECA Continental Championships, Dominican Republic (Silver medal)
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2011 - Played the winter of 2011-12 for Andreoli Latina in Italy's Serie A League... Competed for the United States at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China... Played in 25 sets and started 18... Scored a total of 71 points on 62 kills, five blocks and four aces... Finished with a kill percent of 48.8 and a hitting efficiency of 0.402... Competed at the Pan American Cup in Canada where the U.S. Men's A2 Team finished second... Played in 11 sets and started two... Finished with 18 points on 15 kills, one block and two aces. 2009 - Captain of the Men's Junior National Team that took bronze at the NORCECA Continental Championships in El Salvador. 2007 - Captain of the Boys' Youth National Team that competed in the FIVB World Championships in Baja, Calif. and Mexico. 2006 - Member of the Boys' Youth National Team that took silver in the NORCECA Continental Championships in the Dominican Republic.
CLUB/PREP HIGHLIGHTS: 2009 - Outrigger Invitational MVP. 2007 - Named to Volleyball Magazine All-American first time, Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 list and St. Louis Post Dispatch All-Metro Player of the Year. 2006 - Made the St. Louis Post Dispatch All-Metro First Team
COLLEGIATE HIGHLIGHTS: 2011 - Troy was named 2011 AVCA Men's Division I-II National Player of the Year and MPSF Player of the Year and AVCA All-America First-Team honoree... He received the 2010-11 Pac-10 Tom Hansen Conference Medal for the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership... He helped lead USC to a 23-3 record, the MPSF regular season title with a 20-2 league mark, and the No. 1 seed heading into the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship semifinal, where it was upset by fourth-seeded UC Santa Barbara... Going into that semifinal match, Troy led USC in kills (358) and aces (37) in 2011 and was fourth in digs (140) and blocks (57). He was eighth nationally in aces (0.41), 10th in hitting percentage (.357) and 13th in kills (3.98). In his career, the USC co-captain had 1,884 kills, 655 digs, 249 blocks and 142 aces. His kills, aces and 32 matches with 20-plus kills were USC rally scoring era career records. 2010 - He started for his third season as a junior in 2010... Overall while starting all 26 matches in which he appeared (19 at opposite hitter and 7 mid-season matches at outside hitter), he led USC with 481 kills while hitting .255, plus he had 27 aces (second on USC), 179 digs (third on USC) and 77 blocks (third on USC)... He was in double kill figures 25 times (including 10 times with 20-plus kills, with a USC season high of 34 kills against Pacific), had 5-plus digs 18 times (including 6 times with 10-plus digs) and 5-plus blocks 5 times... He was fifth in the MPSF (10th in the NCAA) in kill average (4.62) and seventh in the MPSF in points average (5.31)... He made the 2010 Volleyball Magazine All-American second team and All-MPSF third team... He was named to the 2010 Outrigger Hotels Invitational All-Tournament team... He was named the MPSF Co-Player of the Week on April 5for his performance against UC Irvine and UCLA... He was named AVCA National Player of the Week on April 19 for his performance against UC San Diego and Long Beach State... He was a USC co-captain. 2009: Murphy helped USC to the NCAA final where it fell to UC Irvine 2-3... He was named an AVCA First Team All-American... Two-time Player of the Week... MPSF First Team... Started all of 2008 at outside hitter and had a dramatic impact... Overall while starting all 29 matches, he led USC in aces (35), was second in kills (430) and third in digs (144)... He also had 65 blocks and hit .287... He was in double kill figures 25 times (including twice with 32 kills) and had 5-plus digs 15 times... He was named MPSF Co-Player of the Week on March 24 for his two-match performance versus Hawaii (64 kills, .368 hitting percentage, 23 digs, 7 blocks and 2 aces)... He was named to the 2008 Hall of Fame Classic All-Tournament team after posting 33 kills (hitting .328), nine digs, five blocks and two aces in the 2-match tourney... He made the 2008 Asics/Volleyball Magazine All-American honorable mention and All-MPSF third team.. He was tied for 19th nationally in aces (0.34, ninth in the MPSF) and was 19th in points (4.83).
Updated Oct. 25, 2011
