Biography
Career Highs:
Kills: 25 vs. Drew (10/2/2021)
Digs: 31 vs. Drew (10/2/2021)
Blocks: 5 at Franklin & Marshall (10/25/2021) and vs. Muskingum (9/14/2019)
Assists: 4 at MIT (11/14/2021)
Awards: Junior Female Athlete of the Year Award at the Susky's (2022) ... NCAA Regional All-Tournament Team at Outside Hitter (2021)... AVCA All-America Honorable Mention (2019, 2021, 2022)... AVCA All-East Region First Team (2019, 2021, 2022)... Landmark Conference First Team (2019, 2021, 2022) ... Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year (2019)... Landmark Conference Athlete of the Week (10/7/19, 9/27/21) ... Salisbury Sea Gull Classic All-Tournament Team (2019) ... River Hawk of the Week (9/4/19, 10/7/19, 11/11/19) ... Landmark Fall Academic Honor Roll (2020)
2022: Had another huge season as the focal point of the offense for the River Hawks...earned AVCA All-American for the third time in her career...the standout hitter finished second in the league in attacks per set (10.72), kills per set (3.57), points (422), and total kills (361). Esposito started all 27 matches she played as a senior, earning her 1,000th career kill as well this season against Christopher Newport...Esposito finished her career with 1230 kills in only three seasons, hitting .223 for her career while also posting 875 digs and 126 service aces...Esposito tallied 10 double-doubles on the year, as she was picked to the Landmark First Team for the third straight year...posted a season-high 22 kills in a win over SUNY Brockport...finished with 21 terminations against Elizabethtown on October 29...tallied 20 kills against Scranton October 26...had double-digit kills in all but six matches in 2022...Susquehanna finished 15-15 overall, while going 4-3 on the season in Landmark Conference play.Â
2021: 24th in the country with 464 points ... Third in the Landmark Conference with a 3.58 kills per set percentage ... First for SU with 404 kills ... Second in the conference in kills, points and total attacks ... Fourth in the conference in points per set ... Third for SU with 29 service aces ... Played in 31 matches and 112 sets ... Contributed 33 assists, 334 digs, and 57 blocks. ... Posted a season-high .579 in a three set win over Eastern Mennonite on Oct. 23 with 11 kills on 19 attempts ... Tallied a .500 kill percentage in a three set win against Wentworth on Oct. 16Â and a .552 attack percentage vs. Maine Maritime with 18 kills on 29 attempts (Nov. 12) ... Contributed a season-high of 25 kills vs. Drew in a five set win on Oct. 2Â and tallied 21 kills in a five set win at Carnegie Mellon (Sept. 24).
2020: Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019: Played in 39 matches and 128 sets ... 17th in the nation with a total of 460 kills ... 26th in the nation with a total of 1271 attacks ... 27th in the nation with 66 service aces ... 43rd in the nation with 4.31 points per set ... First for SU with 465 kills and 65 service aces ... Fourth for SU with 50 blocks ... Fifth for SU with 267 digs ... Contributed 31 assists and one solo block ... Season-high 20 kills vs. Swarthmore (Oct. 19).
Montour HS: 2019 graduate ... Three-sport athlete (volleyball, track & field, bocce) ... VOLLEYBALL: Played for Mike Marchionda ... Two-time PIAA All-State ... Three-time WPIAL AAA All-Star, including First Team as a junior and senior ... WPIAL AAA All-Section Team as a sophomore ... TRACK & FIELD: Four-year varsity letter winner ... Team Captain ... UNIFIED BOCCE: One varsity letter winner ... Team Captain ... High Honor Roll ... National Honor Society ... National Society of Collegiate Scholars ... Interact Club ... Yearbook Committee ... Junior Achievement Volunteer ... International Order of Rainbow Girls ... Tang Soo Do Karate ... Special Olympics Volunteer ... Cancer Research Fundraising Volunteer.
Personal: Rosina Theresa Esposito ... Born July 30 in Pittsburgh, Pa. ... Daughter of James and Diane ... Has five siblings, Alena, Rocco, Sophia, Cecilia, and Amalia ... Sister, Alena (Class of 2015), played volleyball at Robert Morris ... Brother, Rocco (Class of 2017), played football at Wake Forest and Indiana (Pa.) ... Sisters, Sophia (Class of 2018) and Cecilia (Class of 2020), played volleyball at Saint Francis ... Sister, Amalia '22, is a member of the River Hawk women's basketball team.Â
Future Aspirations: To become a teacher and have my own classroom.
Why Susquehanna?: The education program is great and I wanted to continue playing volleyball.
