Across The Net: Macie Garrison - Jacksonville State University Athletics

With Covid-19 forcing the 2020 volleyball season to the spring of 2021. The Jacksonville State program is introducing its freshmen class throughout a short series titled "Across the Net" where the JSU community can learn more about the newest members of the roster before the February start date.

This week's spotlight freshman is Sellersburg, Indiana, native, Macie Garrison.

Garrison played at Silver Creek High under head coach Jeff Zimmerman. JSU's newest setter recorded 3,820 assists throughout her prep career and was a three-time all-state selection. A News and Tribune and Courier Journal nominee for Player of the Year as a senior, she led the SCHS Dragons to more than 100 total wins, three-straight sectional championships and back-to-back regional championships.

At JSU, she rejoins a familiar friend in fellow freshman Courtney Glotzbach. The two played club volleyball together in Louisville for years.

"We were on the same team 13's year and we've been on the same team since, it's been a while."

Garrison says the two only briefly discussed their potential to continue being teammates at the next level.

"A little bit, we were both off doing our own thing and it just happened that we were both looking at JSU, I didn't go to her and she didn't come to me."

"I got to visit once, before I committed, and I got to be with the team and watch them play two of their games and I just loved the energy."

Among others offers, Garrison chose JSU over conference foe Southeast Missouri and Northern Illinois. As a setter, the "quarterback" of the offense already has her sights set on what she intends to study.

"I really like electrical engineering, my mom actually does that, and all throughout high school I took engineering classes. I don't know, I've just always been interested in it. I like math, I like problem-solving, so that's why I'm drawn to it."

Though she's played volleyball since the third grade, the 5-foot-9 Hoosier says she ventured into other sports as well when she was young.

"I played basketball and softball growing up, but both of those careers died in middle school so it wasn't that serious."

Any Pets?
"I have a dog named Max, pretty basic. He's a brittany spaniel.

What's your pandemic binge-watch show?
"My favorite show is Supernatural, but I binge-watched a lot of Criminal Minds over quarantine. I'm really good at quoting movies and TV shows, I just have a knack for memorizing stuff like that."

Garrison and the rest of the Gamecocks are a month away from finally beginning the preseason for their long-awaited return to court to follow up their OVC title season from 2019. JSU opens the 2020-21 season on Feb. 7 at Belmont.

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