2025
• Liberty League Rookie of the Week -
Oct. 20 |
Oct. 27
• Finished sixth in the Liberty League with 349 kills as well as 3.53 kills per set.
• Second for the Tigers with with 221 digs as well as 35 service aces.
• Notched team-best 19 matches with double-digit kills, including a career-high 29 in a five-set victory over King's (Nov. 1)
• Four-set season-high 25 kills on .353 hitting to go with 12 digs and four service aces in win over Brooklyn College (Oct. 25)
• 11 kills and career-high 22 digs in four-set setback to Fredonia (Nov. 8)
• 21 kills and 13 digs opposite Clarkson (Oct. 17)
BEFORE RIT
• League and team MVP at Academy of the Holy Names
• Also a standout shot putter on the track & field team
• Three-time National Honor Society member
• Senior Class recipient of Excellence in Mathematics award
PERSONAL
• Anna Sofia Grinde Wasula was born in Albany, N.Y.
• Parents are Ellinor Grinde and Scott Wasula
• Enjoys working out and reading her bible and listening to country music in her spare time
• Best advice she’s ever received, “Don’t think, just go out there and do your best” from former high school track & field coach Carlo Cherubino
• Also lists Cherubino as having the most influence on her athletic career because, “He pushed me to step out of my comfort zone and always had a sarcastic comment to lighten the mood. He saw what I was capable of long before I had any idea. Strength coach Teagan Waddingham also “always believed in me even when I didn’t and always knew the right words I needed to hear.”
• Started playing volleyball in third grade
• Majoring in management information systems
