Sheena Eldred fueled the most dominant attack in Rutgers-Newark women’s volleyball history in 2003 and finished second in career assists despite playing just three seasons in Scarlet & Black.
The Fairfax, Virginia, native set Scarlet Raider season records with 1,364 assists as Rutgers-Newark stormed to a New Jersey Athletic Conference championship, a 25-9 record and the program’s first NCAA Championship Tournament berth. She led the NJAC in assists average (12.07) for the first of two times in her three-year career.
Named to the All-NJAC first team as a sophomore in 2003 and a senior in 2005, Eldred quarterbacked teams which went a combined 59-26 while racking up a 20-3 NJAC ledger. She produced three of the top eight single season assists totals in the R-N record book.
As a senior, she dished out 977 assists to finish with 3,198 for her career - just 91 shy of the all-time Raider record set by Margarita Tacuri in four full seasons. She averaged 10.84 assists per game - another Raider record.
Her setting skills helped teammates and fellow Rutgers-Newark Athletic Hall of Famers Domini Lanzone and Robin Pearce finish their careers ranked first and second in points and kills.
Eldred received her bachelor of science in business management in 2006 and added an MBA in international business from Marymount University in 2010.
A resident of Fairfax, she works as an analyst for Communications Resource, Inc., and keeps active in volleyball by serving as an assistant varsity coach for the Arlington County Public Schools system.
