| Logan Eggleston | |||||||
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| Born | (2000-11-13)November 13, 2000 (age 25) | ||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||||||
| College / University | Texas (2018–2023) | ||||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | ||||||
| Current club | LOVB Austin | ||||||
| Number | 33 | ||||||
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Logan Eggleston (born November 13, 2000) is an American professionalvolleyball player forLOVB Austin. She played college volleyball for theTexas Longhorns, winning theNCAA championship and being namedAVCA National Player of the Year in 2022.
Eggleston was born on November 13, 2000, inBrentwood, Tennessee, to a white mother and black father.[1] She played basketball in her youth but took up volleyball at age 13.[1] She was selected to theUnited States junior national team at 16 and was named the team's Most Valuable Player and Best Server in 2018.[1][2] She won three straight state championships atBrentwood High School before graduating a year early to attend theUniversity of Texas at Austin.[2][3]
Eggleton played at the University of Texas from 2018 to 2022. She was namedBig 12 Conference Freshman of the Year in 2018.[1] She became captain of the Longhorns as a sophomore.[1] She became the president of the school's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee in 2020, taking part in campus activism to rename landmarks and build statues of former black students, and sitting on a committee to review the minstrelsy-related school song "The Eyes of Texas", during theGeorge Floyd protests that summer.[1][4] She took Texas to the2020 NCAA tournament finals and was named Big 12 Player of the Year for the first of three times (2020, 2021, 2022).[1][5]
In her fifth year of eligibility, Eggleston led Texas to win the2022 NCAA championship alongside fellow first-teamAll-AmericansAsjia O'Neal andZoe Fleck.[6][7] Eggleston was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player and the national AVCA Player of the Year.[6] She won five straightBig 12 championships at Texas and set the Big 12 career ace record with 208 aces.[6][8]
Eggleston signed a 11⁄2-year contract with the Turkish volleyball clubGalatasaray S.K., based in Istanbul, during the2022–23 season.[9]
In December 2024, Eggleston joinedLOVB Austin ahead ofLOVB Pro's inaugural season.[10] Austin was fifth of six teams in the 2025 regular season, going 5–11. However, in the inaugural LOVB finals, the team clicked and completed two reverse sweeps, againstSalt Lake and No. 1Atlanta, before winning the championship game in three sets overOmaha. Eggleston andMadi Skinner led the team with 17 kills each in the title game.[11][12]
