Career: Finished career with very balanced totals of 349 kills, 287 assists, 308 digs and 83 total blocks while playing a variety positions with the Panthers...Earned the CAA Commissioner's Academic Award as a sophomore and junior...Recorded a career-high in kills with 14 in a win against rival Mercer in 2010...Also had career-high 45 assists against the Bears in 2008...Career-high 19 digs came against UNC Wilmington in 2008.
2010: Despite missing half the season with injury, added solid depth to the Panthers' front line...Tallied a career-high 14 kills in a 3-0 victory over Mercer...Had 10 kills in a 3-2 loss to DePaul...Averaged 1.65 kills per set while knocking home 61 kills...Also contributed 28 digs and 11 total blocks.
2009: Finished the season averaging 1.42 kills and 0.72 digs per set during her junior season...Scored a pair of double-digit kill performances, both wins for the Panthers...Finished with 12 kills, 33 assists and four digs in the championship match of the Great 8 Volleyball Challenge against Presbyterian College on 9/5...Finished with 12 kills and just one error, along with nine assists and three digs against Hofstra on 10/4, hitting at a .423 clip, her highest single-match attack percentage of the year...Used as a setter during the Great 8 Volleyball Challenge, nabbing 19 assists against North Carolina A&T (9/4), as well as 25 against Louisiana-Monroe on 9/5...Tied her career-high for blocks in a match twice during the season, first at Elon (9/19) and then again at home against Northeastern on 10/2...Earned the CAA Commissioner's Academic Award for the second straight year.
2008: Started to play very strong in the middle of the season, scoring four consecutive double-doubles at one stretch...Started that stretch with a 45-assist (season and team high), 15-dig performance against Mercer on 9/30...Added 28 assists and 19 digs in a five-set win over UNC Wilmington on 10/4...Continued her hot play with a 24-assist, 11-dig performance against George Mason on 10/10, that included four kills on just six attempts...Scored her final double-double of the season with a 27-assist, 11-dig performance against James Madison on 10/12...Finished the season with eight double-digit dig performances and five matches with 15 or more assists...Scored a career-high 13 kills against VCU on 11/9 in the team's final home game of the season ...Followed that up in the final match of the season with an 11-kill performance at George Mason on 10/15...Finished with nine kills and just one error for a .444 attack percentage in the Panthers five-set win over Kennesaw State on 10/28...CAA Commissioner's Academic Award recipient.
2007: Tallied five kills with four blocks against Belmont (9/8)...Posted season-high .500 hitting percentage with four kills in win at Mercer (9/11...Had four kills against Clemson (9/15)...Broke through with career-high 12 kills with four blocks while posting .346 hitting percentage in win against UNC Wilmington (10/6)...Tallied 11 kills against George Mason (10/28)...Had nine kills in road win at UNC Wilmington (11/10).
High School: Lettered for four seasons at Waubonsie Valley High School...Recorded over 1,100 career kills at WVHS...Named All-Conference Upstate Eight, All-Naperville/Aurora City team and All-State Honorable Mention by the Champaign News-Gazette...Her WVHS team won its region and placed second at the Sectional Championships during her senior year, also finishing second in the Upstate Eight Conference...Played club volleyball for Sports Peformance, where her team finished fourth in the 2006 Lone Star Qualifier.
Personal: Rachel is the middle daughter of Nick and Mary Boryc...A volleyball player competitively since the age of 10, Rachel played eight years with one club team...The self-proclaimed "tomboy" of the family, Rachel even played some ice hockey growing up in the Chicago area...A Chicago sports fan, Rachel became a huge Bulls, Bears, White Sox and Black Hawks fan...A favorite project with her free time was to work with the Special Olympics program to teach sports and fun to the mentally and phyically disabled...Her love of children enabled her to work as a nanny during the summer to save some money...Majoring in nutrition, but plans on a career in nursing.
All In The Family: The Boryc sisters will do battle in the CAA regularly, with mom and dad hoping to attend both. Rachel will be wearing the blue and white of the Panthers, while Katrina will don the green and gold of George Mason. The sisters were varsity teammates for three years in high school, but are "complete opposites" according to Rachel. Katrina is just 5-6 and will probably be trying to dig out any spikes of bigger sister Rachel.
Three of a Kind: All three Boryc sisters will play college volleyball...Older sister (Sarahanne, 24, now in Charlotte) played volleyball for four years at Appalachian State, Rachel is at State and Katrina at George Mason in Virginia.
