By now, you should be more than familiar with our series of regularly updating leaderboards for various Marquette Golden Eagles sports accomplishments. Keep checking back to that link in the previous sentence for our charts as the seasons continue to churn through history and MU’s various teams continue to create new memories and accomplishments.
This time around, we’re going to look at the all-time leaders in assists for Marquette volleyball.
As time goes by, I’m starting to think that Liz Egasti’s
career record of 5,180 assists will never be touched.
Yadhira Anchante recently ran the show for the Golden Eagles for three seasons and finished with 3,440 assists, the fourth best total in MU history. She was fully healthy for two of those seasons, playing in at least 116 sets in both, and hit at least 1,250 assists in both of those. Marquette reached the Sweet 16 in both seasons. Anchante was top 25 in the country in assists per set in both seasons, and she was #16 in total assists in 2024.
A Marquette setter doing that for four straight years wouldn’t be enough to beat Liz Egasti’s record. Four years of 1,250 is only 5,000 career assists. Sure, it wouldn’t take much more, just 1,300 assists for four straight years, but we’re talking about MU’s setter essentially playing like the best setter in the country for an entire career.
It seems hard to believe.
This is where we point out that Liz Egasti had the luck to play the last four years (1997-2000) of side-out scoring. It was a little bit easier to rack up assists on kills when a kill might only grant your team a side-out and the chance to serve for points even if sets were only played to 15. The catch was that it was possible for teams to trade service back and forth literally forever and never actually score a point towards getting to 15 to win. All due respect to Liz Egasti, but that definitely helped her out there.
WITH THAT SAID, Gemma Greer played the last year of side-out scoring in 2000 and the first three of rally scoring. She still ended up at #2 all time in assists in Marquette history and at 4,368 assists, Greer is the only player other than Egasti to break the 4,000 assist barrier in blue and gold.
Anchante would have sailed past the 4,000 assist mark if she had started at Marquette instead of playing two years of junior college volleyball, but she has to settle for the best rally scoring total in program history instead. Elizabeth Koberstein (2,868) would have gotten to 4K if she had played at Marquette for four years instead of two after transferring from Kentucky. Same for Sara Blasier (2,413) and her two year Marquette career after transferring from Rice.
All of this does give us something to watch for in the 2026 season. It seems that Marquette’s most likely option at setter is freshman Luanna Markus. It’s going to take four great seasons at setter to take a run at Egasti’s record, and if MU does end up running with Markus at setter all year, that’s a great way to start. With that in mind, freshly transferred setter Isabela Haggard had just 997 assists for Marquette in 2025. With that said, MU was just 43rd in the country in hitting percentage last season and they ranked just #62 in the country percentage of points won. There’s obvious room for improvement in the offense for Tom Mendoza’s second season in charge, and that’s what Markus would need to set herself up for a possible and yet still unlikely run at record setting glory when we get to 2029. Even if Egasti’s record is untouchable, then Anchante’s full rally scoring record is not, particularly since it’s only a three year number.
Here’s what the all-time assists chart looks like at the conclusion of the 2025 season.
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