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Wayne State University Athletics

2025 Volleyball Roster

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4 Leigha Baldwin

4 Leigha Baldwin

  • Position:
    MB/OPP
  • Height:
    6-0
  • Class:
    Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown:
    Perrysburg, Ohio
  • High School:
    Perrysburg (Purdue Fort Wayne)
  • Letters:
    3

Summary

Biography

Career Notes:  Appeared in 227 sets and 72 matches (57 starts) in four collegiate playing seasons, including 207 and 65 (51 starts), respectively, at Wayne State ... includes time at Purdue Fort-Wayne prior to transferring to the Warriors in July of 2022 ... named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team twice (2023 and 2024) ... selected Second Team All-GLIAC for the 2025 campaign.

2025:  Named Second Team All-GLIAC ... turned in the best season of her career ... recorded new personal bests in sets played (105), matches played (30, one of eight Warriors), matches started (28), kills (249, third on the team), kills per set (2.37), total attacks (524, third), hitting percentage (.326), digs (44), solo blocks (6), block assists (72), total blocks (78, third), blocks per set (0.74), points (291), and points per set (2.77) ... in 16 matches and 58 sets of GLIAC play, the attacker ranked in a tie-for-seventh in the league for hitting percentage at .309, which included 132 kills and 43 miscues on 288 attempts ... the best performance in the top season of her career came on Nov. 13 against Grand Valley State and helped WSU clinch home court for the GLIAC Tournament quarterfinals ... that night, she sent home a personal-best 20 kills to just two errors on 32 swings for a .563 efficiency ... hit .417 in the three league tournament matches with 32 kills, only seven errors, 60 swings, nine total blocks (all assisted), eight digs, and one assist ... competing in the NCAA Tournament on Dec. 4 against Findlay, finished with a .462 hitting efficiency (12, 0, 26), six assisted stops above the net and a dig ... sent home at least 10 kills in eight outings (hit at least .364 in seven of them and .458 or better in six), including four of the last six, as well as 15 or more in a pair of efforts ... joining the performance with 20 on Nov. 13, she racked up 15 kills on Oct. 25 at Northern Michigan with just three errors on 23 attempts for a .522 output ... hit an outrageous .640 on Oct. 17 against Hillsdale in the Midwest Region Crossover with 18 kills and only two miscues on 25 total attacks ... career-high seven digs in the GLIAC Tournament finals at Ferris State, a 3-1 victory over the four-time defending champion for WSU's first ever GLIAC Tournament Championship ... had two or more total blocks in 20 of the 30 matches, including a stretch of five straight contests between Oct. 18 against Missouri-St. Louis and Nov. 1 vs. Davenport, and four straight to close the season ... notched at least one dig in 19 matches ... assisted on a kill in four separate contests ... Match-By-Match Statistics.

2024:  Named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team ... played in 26 of the team's 27 matches, 20 of which were as a starter, and 87 total sets ... totaled 153 kills, 1.76 kills per set, 76 attack errors, 392 total attempts, a .196 hitting percentage, three assists, 33 digs, four solo blocks, 55 block assists, 59 total blocks, 184.5 points and 2.12 points per set ... reached the double-digit kill mark in a quartet of efforts ... that includes a career-high 13 in the second match of the season, Sept. 6 against Northwood in the Warrior Invitational ... against the Timberwolves, she finished with those 13 kills and just three errors on 26 swings for a .385 hitting efficiency ... the other three performances with 10 or more kills each totaled 11 including Oct. 3 at home against No. 16 Grand Valley State, Oct. 26 at home against Northern Michigan and the very next outing, Nov. 1 at No. 2 Ferris State ... finished a match with multiple total blocks 19 times, including two with five, Sept. 14 vs. Ohio Dominican at Parkside's Hampton Inn Invitational and Oct. 18 against Ashland at the Midwest Regional Crossover ... Match-By-Match Statistics.

2023:  Named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team ... played in 15 sets and nine matches as a redshirt sophomore, including three starts vs. Thomas More (9/1), Hillsdale (9/8) and Cedarville (9/9) ... accumulated a .146 hitting percentage with 13 kills and  seven errors on 41 total attacks ... registered at least one kill in all but two of her matches played ... most productive match of the season came against HC with four kills, two errors, 13 total attacks (.154 hitting percentage), five digs and two block assists ... also sent home a pair of kills while facing Thomas More, Findlay (9/9) and Lake Superior State (10/6) ... finished with two digs vs. Cedarville and two assisted blocks vs. Thomas More ... Match-By-Match Statistics.

2022:  Transferred to WSU from Purdue Fort-Wayne in July of 2022 ... did not see any game action. 

2021:  Played in seven matches for Purdue Fort-Wayne, starting six times ... appeared in 20 sets and totaled 10 kills in 46 attempts ... contributed seven digs, four assists and 21 total blocks (2 solo, 19 assisted) ... recorded a season-high four kills in a win at Robert Morris (10/1) ... garnered a season-best eight blocks (1 solo, 7 assisted) vs. RMU ... notched a season-high four digs at Oakland (9/28).

High School:  A 2021 graduate of Perrysburg High School ... earned Honorable Mention All-District accolades in both 2019 and 2020 ... received All-Northern Lakes League (NLL) Second Team honors in 2019 and Third Team recognition in 2020 for coach Laura Davidson ... helped the Yellow Jackets to a 14-0 NLL record as a junior ... played for the Premier Volleyball Academy for five years ... attended Bowling Green High School for two years ... totaled 212 kills as a sophomore for the Bobcats in 80 sets, along with 22 blocks (3 solo, 19 assisted) and 64 digs.

Personal:  Full name -- Leigha E. Baldwin ... born on April 7, 2003, in Toledo, Ohio ... daughter of Marc and Wendy Baldwin ... has an older brother, Dillon, and an older sister, Alyssa ... Dillon was a lacrosse player at Siena Heights ... is a Marketing major ... named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (term GPA 3.5+) for Fall 2022, Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 ... named to the Coach's Honor Roll (term GPA 3.0-3.49) for Fall 2023 ... first name is pronounced LAY-uh.
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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2022Sophomore

    MB/OP
    6'0"
    4
  • 4

    2023Redshirt Sophomore

    MB/OH
    6'0"
    4
  • 4

    2024Redshirt Junior

    MB/OH
    5'11"
    4
  • 4

    2025Redshirt Senior

    MB/OPP
    6'0"
    4