UC Santa Barbara
2020 AVCA All-American Honorable Mention
2020 Big West All-Conference Honorable Mention
2020
- Was named a Big West All-Conference Honorable Mention and an AVCA All-American Honorable Mention
- Appeared in 50 of the team's 56 sets as a mainstay at the outside hitter position
- Had a career-high 2.48 kills p/set, improving from a 1.94 in 2018
- Set new career-highs in attack percentage (.264), digs p/set (1.58), blocks p/set (0.56), and total blocks (28)
- Had a season-high 15 kills against No. 1 BYU and had a 12 kill, 10 dig double-double vs No. 15 Ohio State
- Finished second on the team in total kills, kills p/set, and swings
2019: Appeared in 12 matches and 21 sets as a junior outside hitter … Contributed to the thrilling win against UC Irvine with 16 kills to wrap up regular season … Racked up five kills and four digs in a victory against Harvard (Jan. 3) …. Made an appearance in a win vs. Loyola (III.) on Jan. 6.
2018: Played in all 24 matches appearing in 87 sets as a sophomore outside hitter … Third on the team with 169 kills for an average of 1.94 kills per set … Added 128 digs (1.47 digs per set) to rank second on the team … Also finished with 35 assists, 23 total blocks and 17 service aces … Back-to-back 12 kill matches to open the season against NJIT (Jan. 4) and Saint Francis (Jan. 5) … Recorded a career-high 16 kills in a five-set thrilling victory over UC Irvine on Apr. 12 … Followed up that performance with 13 kills and seven digs at UC Irvine on Apr. 14 … Had a career-high six blocks in the Big West Tournament vs. CSUN (Apr. 19) to go with nine digs and five kills … Finished with six double-digit kill matches … Logged a career-high 13 digs in a five-set win over UC San Diego on Feb. 23.
2017: In his true freshman season, entered 11 matches and 32 sets ... Finished with 57 kills, four aces, 46 digs, and blocks ... Made his collegiate debut against Fort Wayne (formerly IPFW) in the 2017 UCSB Asics Invitational, notching two digs and one block in two sets of action ... Made four starts in the latter half of the season ... Most productive performance of the year came against Concordia University Irvine on Mar. 15, as he had a season-high 14 kills and two aces alongside six digs ... Arguably his best match came against Harvard on Mar. 13, as he logged 13 kills while setting season-highs with a .286 hitting percentage and nine digs ... Had double-digit kills in three straight contests from Mar. 13-31 ... 49 of his 57 kills came in the month of March ... That month, he averaged 2.88 kills per set on .102 hitting, 0.24 aces per set, and 1.94 digs per set ... All of those averages would have ranked second on the team for the whole season.
Club/High School
Played high school volleyball at Mira Costa High School ... Was a 2016 High School First Team All-American after earning Bay League MVP and All-CIF honors ... Was also the 2016 Daily Breeze South Bay area Co-Player of the Year ... Named to the Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 ... Won the CIF Southern Section Division I Title in 2016 ... Reached the CIF Semifinals in 2015 ... Was a scholar-athlete at Mira Costa ... Played club for Southern California Volleyball Club (SCVC) under coach Bill Ferguson ... Played on the SCVC Junior Nationals A-11 Tournament Team four straight years from 2013-16 ... Squad was ranked top in the nation in 2013 and 2015, was top-three 2013-16.
Personal
Roy Wright McFarland was born on Oct. 11, 1997 in Manhattan Beach, Calif. to parents Dana and Nancy ... Has two older siblings, Max and Ruby ... Roots for the Los Angeles Lakers and Rams ... Calls Bottle Rocket his favorite movie ... Says that winning state championship with Mira Costa was his favorite pre-UCSB sporting moment ... Lists Green Eggs & Ham as his favorite book ... Listens to Tom Petty ... In his free time, likes to go ice fishing ... Packers great Brett Favre is his favorite athlete ... Likes to watch Entourage and Game of Thrones ... Was also recruited by USC and UCLA.
