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2025 Volleyball Roster

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20 Ruby van der Heide

  • Position Setter
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.
  • High School Northern Highlands Regional
  • School Columbia College

Biography

2024 (Junior)
Added 379 assists, 19 service aces ... recorded her 1,000 career assist in the five set win over Bethune-Cookman on Sept. 20 ... finished with 120 digs, averaging 1.85 digs per set which is a career best… had 15 or more assists in 13 matches ... had 30 or more assists four times ... had a career-best 39 assists against Yale on Oct. 12 also had 10 digs ... finished with five double-doubles on the year (assists/digs).

2023 (Sophomore)
Played in 20 matches and 67 sets… Achieved a season-high of 6 kills and 6 points against Penn on 10/14/2023 … Recorded 12 digs in the same game on 10/14/2023 at Penn … Had a season-high 30 assists in the match against Dartmouth on 9/30/2023 … Finished the season with a total of 17 kills, 112 digs, 9 aces, 17 total blocks, and 35.5 points.

2022-23 (First-Year)
Played in 22 matches and 78 sets … Had a season-high 35 assist against Manhattan on 9/10/22 and 9.5 points, five aces and three digs at St. John’s on 9/16/22 …Finished the season sixth in the Ivy League in assists with 452 to go along with 121 digs, 15 kills, 15 aces, eight blocks and 34 points.

Prior to Columbia
Four-year letterwinner in volleyball at Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, New Jersey ... Earned 2021 second team All-New Jersey State honors ... Nominated for North Jersey HS Sports Awards Volleyball Player of the Year (2021) ... Two-time first team All-County ... Three-time first team All-League ... 2021 first team All-Group 3 ... 2020 second team All-Group 3 ... Played club for DIGS Volleyball Club ... Spent the summer of 2019 with the GEVA High Performance Regional Team ... Four-time High Honor Roll ... National Honor Society member.

Personal
Has rich Columbia history, with five family members having graduated from Columbia ... Grandfather, John Armstrong '55CC played football for the Lions (1951-55) and was both a wrestling and football coach ... Aunts, Eliza '89CC and Sara '91CC Armstrong and cousin Charlotte Coben '18CC are also graduates of Columbia.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 20

    2022First Year

    Setter
    6'0"
    20
  • 20

    2023Sophomore

    Setter
    6'0"
    20
  • 20

    2024Junior

    Setter
    6'0"
    20
  • 20

    2025Senior

    Setter
    6'0"
    20