Volleyball recruiting benchmarks

Digs Per Set by position: what each level actually looks like

Name: Athlete Quotient volleyball digs per set benchmarks by position
Creator: Athlete Quotient

Athlete Quotient's D1 digs per set benchmark in women's volleyball runs from 2.281 for a libero to 0.321 for a middle blocker, because the position defines the job. The table below runs the full ladder - high school varsity to the elite D1 rung - for every position, with the men's sport-wide ladder beside it.

Digs Per Set benchmarks by position

Athlete Quotient women's volleyball digs per set benchmarks (Digs Per Set).
Position	D1 elite	D1	D1 floor	D2	D3	HS varsity
Outside Hitter	2.629	1.478	0.617	0.400	0.240	0.144
Opposite Hitter	1.509	0.532	0.373	0.305	0.238	0.170
Middle Blocker	0.634	0.321	0.211	0.143	0.086	0.051
Setter	2.578	1.821	1.395	0.900	0.540	0.324
Libero	4.658	2.281	1.431	0.667	0.400	0.240
Defensive Specialist	4.077	1.764	1.047	0.471	0.282	0.169

Men's ladder

The men's digs per set ladder is published sport-wide rather than by position.

Athlete Quotient men's volleyball digs per set benchmarks, sport-wide.
Position	D1 elite	D1	D1 floor	D2	D3	HS varsity
All positions	1.718	1.088	0.422	0.250	0.150	0.090

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Common questions

What is a good digs per set for a volleyball outside hitter?

Athlete Quotient's D1 benchmark for a volleyball outside hitter is 1.478. The D2 rung is 0.400, D3 is 0.240 and high school varsity is 0.144. The elite D1 rung is 2.629.

What is a good digs per set for a volleyball defensive specialist?

Athlete Quotient's D1 benchmark for a volleyball defensive specialist is 1.764. The D2 rung is 0.471, D3 is 0.282 and high school varsity is 0.169. The elite D1 rung is 4.077.

How to read these

Each column is a rung on the Athlete Quotient benchmark ladder - the bar the engine scores every athlete against - not a cutoff and not an entry price. Being under a rung does not close a door. It tells you the size of the gap, which is the only number you can actually train against.

These are Athlete Quotient's own benchmarks. Where a published college figure exists we use it; where none exists, the rung is ours. We would rather say that than claim a source we do not have.

These tables are the same ones the scoring engine uses, exported from it rather than retyped, so a page can never quietly disagree with a score. More: how AQ builds benchmarks.