Lauren Plum (2024) - Hall of Fame - University of Oregon Athletics

Lauren Plum

Induction:
2024
Class:
2014

The program’s all-time leader in career assists, Lauren Plum was a 2012 AVCA All-America first team pick, the 2012 Pac-12 Setter of the Year and a three-time all-conference performer who helped lead the Ducks to three NCAA Tournament appearances. The only setter in program history to surpass 5,000 career assists, she finished her storied career with 5,213 of them. Plum still holds the school’s career assists mark and the assists per set record (11.98). She owns three of the top seven single-season assist totals: 1,618 in 2012 (second), 1,330 in 2011 (sixth) and 1,246 in 2010 (seventh). In 2012 with Plum at setter, Oregon advanced to the NCAA national championship match against Texas. That run included wins over No. 13 Dayton in the second round, No. 16 BYU in the Sweet 16, No. 10 Nebraska in the Elite 8 and top-ranked Penn State in the national semifinals before coming up short against the Longhorns. Plum led the nation by averaging 13.37 assists per set in 2012 and directed the offense to a .289 hitting percentage which tied the then-school record for a single season. She also established the school’s all-time rally scoring record with 75 assists against No. 6 Washington. In 2011, she was tabbed an AVCA honorable mention All-American and became the first UO setter to claim honorable mention All-America, all-region and all-conference nods in the same season. In her first season in Eugene, the Pac-10 all-freshman performer led all newcomers in the NCAA with 11.75 assists per set while directing the UO offense to a .256 efficiency, a mark that still stands in the top 10 in program history. Oregon was 90-29 during Plum’s four-year career, including a program-record 30 wins in 2012. The Ducks finished in the top four of the Pac-12 in her final two seasons, including a second-place showing in 2012. In the spring of 2011, Plum was named to the USA Volleyball Junior National and A2 National teams and helped the former to a fourth-place finish at the World Junior Championships, tying the USA’s best-ever finish. After college, Plum played professionally in France, Germany and Puerto Rico from 2014-20. Plum then moved in to coaching as an assistant at Vanderbilt to help start that program. The Commodores will play their first varsity season in 2025.