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Robert Feathers

Class: Sophomore Hometown: Pacific Palisades High School: Loyola

Height / Weight: 6-8 / 225 Position: MB

2013: After an impressive rookie debut, Feathers returns for his second season as a starting middle blocker as a sophomore in 2013 ...

2012: He started at middle blocker as a first-year freshman in 2012 and made an immediate impact ... Overall in 2012 while appearing in 29 matches (starting 28), he had a team-best 154 blocks (a USC rally scoring era record) along with 101 kills (hitting .324), 49 digs and 7 aces ... He had 19 matches with 5-plus blocks (twice with 10 blocks), hit .500-plus 4 times and had 2 matches with 5-plus digs ... He led the nation in blocks (1.60, a USC rally scoring era record) ...He was named the 2012 Off The Block National Blocker of the Year ... He made 2012 All-MPSF honorable mention, as well as the All-MPSF Freshman team ...

HIGH SCHOOL: He made 2011 Volleyball Magazine All-American honorable mention and Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 list as a senior at Loyola High in Los Angeles (Calif.) ... He made the 2010 All-CIF Division I first team as a junior as Loyola won the CIF Southern Section Division I title ... He was a 2009 All-CIF Division I second teamer as a sophomore when Loyola was ranked No. 1 nationally while winning the CIF State and Southern Section Division I championships ... Current Trojans Alex Slaught and Michael Mullahey also prepped at Loyola ...

PERSONAL: He was a member of the 2009 U.S. Youth National Team that finished 10th at the FIVB Boys Youth World Championship in Italy ... He was on the 2008 U.S. Youth A2 Team, playing on the winning White team at the 2008 Boys International Youth High Performance Championship and making the All-Tournament team (he was named the tourney's Best Blocker) ... He was on the 2006 and 2007 U.S. High Performance Select A1 Teams ... His Manhattan Beach Surf club team was the gold medalist at the 2010 USA Volleyball Junior Olympics in the Under 18 Open Gold Division and he made the All-Tournament team ... His Palisades 18 Kaepa team was the bronze medalist in the Under 18 Open Gold Division at the 2009 Junior Olympics ... His Palisades 17 Kaepa team won the gold medal in the Under 17 Open Gold Division at the 2008 Junior Olympics ... His Palisades 16 Kaepa squad won bronze in the Under 16 Open Gold Division at the 2007Junior Olympics and he made the All-Tournament team ... His Palisades 14 Kaepa team won a silver medal in the Under 14 Open Gold Division at the 2005 Junior Olympics ... He is a human performance major at USC with a B average (3.09 GPA) ... Birthdate is Aug. 12, 1992.

Career single-match highs: 8 kills (Stanford, 2012), 11 digs (UC San Diego and Long Beach State, 2012), 6 blocks (UC Santa Barbara and Stanford, 2012)