Biography
- Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Sept. 23, 2019)
2022 (Senior): Academic All-Ivy Selection … Played in 22 matches and 62 sets … Had a season-high 14 kills and 16 points at Brown on 10/28/22, 12 digs at Pen on 10/7/22 and five assists in her final game against Penn on 11/12/22 … Finished the season with 135 kills, 16 assists, seven aces, 104 digs, 17 blocks and 151.5 points.
2021 (Junior): Saw action in seven matches out of 24, starting in three before suffering season ending injury ... Ended the season with 31 kills, 1.72 kills per set, 31.0 total points, 1.72 points per set and 10 digs ... Finished with seven kills and a season-high three digs against Sacred Heart (Sept. 4) ... Had season-high eight kills in Columbia's win over Iona (Sept. 11), hitting .250 ... Posted a season-high three digs on four kills against Seton Hall (Sept. 11).
2020 (Sophomore): Season canceled (COVID-19).
2019 (First-Year): Played in 19 matches, starting three ... Was third on the team in total kills and kills per set, finishing with 120 total kills and 1.90 kills per set ... Hit .202 on the season ... Third on the squad in total points and points per set, racking up 138.0 total points, while averaging 2.19 points per set ... Added 69 digs at 1.10 digs per set and 14.0 total blocks at 0.22 blocks per set ... Opened collegiate career with back-to-back 10-kill matches, finishing with 10 kills against Howard (Sept. 6) on .222 hitting percentage and another 10 kills at St. John's (Sept. 6) on .364 hitting percentage ... Hit .476 with 12 kills against Lehigh (Sept. 13) ... Tallied a career-high 18 kills and a career-high .500 hitting percentage, adding seven digs and two blocks, in career night against Radford (Sept. 14) ... Had a three match stretch with a total of 33 kills from Sept. 19-21 which won her Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the week of Sept. 23 ... Opened three match stretch with 14 kills against Fordham (Sept. 19) ... Added eight kills and seven digs vs. San Jose State (Sept. 20) ... Tallied first career double-double with 12 digs and 11 kills (.360 hitting percentage) at LIU (Sept. 21) ... Smashed 13 kills on .385 hitting, while adding eight digs against Brown (Nov. 8).
High School: Four-time letterwinner in volleyball at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, Connecticut ... Racked up a total of 950 kills, 184 aces, 60 blocks and 717 digs during four-year career at Joel Barlow ... Had a career-high 35 kills against Newton High School during 2018 season ... Was a part of a squad that were Four-time South-West Conference Champions and helped power the Falcons to a 1 Class L CT State Championship (2018) ... Helped Joel Barlow come back from a two-set deficit to win the first 1 Class L CT State Championship (2018) in school history ... Earned a full load of awards following senior season (2018), starting with the Gatorade Connecticut Player of the Year; Val Dickinson Memorial Volleyball Award; Class L State Championship MVP; First-Team All-State Class L and SWC MVP ... Became the first from Joel Barlow, to be named Gatorade Connecticut Player of the Year ... Named to the SWC All-Conference team three straight years (2016-18) ... Selected to Second-Team All-State Class L (2017) ... Member of the National Honors Society ... Spent four seasons with club team CT Stars.
Personal: Born, Kiara Hana Robichaud, on Dec. 11, 2000 in Newton, Massachusetts ... Daughter of Luke and Jennifer Robichaud ... Has one brother, Rhys (16) ... Cousin, Madison Catarius, played soccer from 2012-16 at Nichols College ... Loves writing, even attempted to write a novel in eighth grade ... Nickname, “Kiki”, given to by aunt when young ... Played the viola for eight years (third through 10th grades) ... Played four sports growing up, volleyball; gymnastics; swimming and tennis ... Was recruited by and considered attending Tufts; Carnegie Mellon; Colgate; Connecticut and Stevens Institute of Technology ... Settled on Columbia because “of the extensive opportunities for research and the overall international vibe that comes from New York City” ... Enrolled in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science ... Intended major is Biomedical Engineering.
