Arissa Shepherd is an excellent Dacula High School volleyball player
DACULA, Ga. — Arissa Shepherd is a renowned volleyball player from Dacula High School. From a very young age, she played volleyball, and since then, she knew that it was not a simple extracurricular activity. She felt that volleyball would be her passion and that she would dedicate herself to that.
At age 8, she first played the sport at summer camp in Dacula, leading her to Suwanee Sports Academy for a 5-year training period. Then at 13, she moved to club ball to continue her volleyball training.
In 2018, Arissa Shepherd made the Dacula High School’s varsity volleyball team as a rising freshman. In that same year, she was selected as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) on her team.
For 2019, Shepherd repeated the feat as she received the MVP of the Dacula High School volleyball team once again.
Arissa Shepherd led her team thanks to her experience and became the team captain for two consecutive years (2019-2020).
In 2020, as the Gwinnett Daily Post volleyball player of the year, Shepherd was named one of the super six in the county. She broke the record for kills at Dacula early in her junior season of that same year.
Despite her young age, she is a dedicated player, and in 2020, she gave volleyball lessons to girls in her neighborhood. Shepherd also started the website VolleyballAcces4All.com so all girls can access the sport she loves so much.
Thanks to her parents, Shepherd knows the importance of studying and pursuing a university career. She is a dedicated and disciplined girl who maintains a 4.1 GPA; she participated in the Duke Tip academic program and was selected by the Dacula High School Student Council as a freshman.
She was admitted to the Beta Club and the National Honor Society at Dacula and is on the honor roll of the German Language Honor Society. She is active in different leadership positions within the Dacula Leadership team, and through her international trips, she has gotten to know different cultures.
At the academic level, she is interested in international affairs, law, and sports management. Shepherd has played volleyball with Club GA5 (now known as A5 Gwinnett). In September 2021, the Dacula High School team defeated Central Gwinnett in two games. The team also lost in two games to Buford at 8-AAAAAA, where Shepherd had seven aces and 16 kills.
This year she made Dacula history by repeating it as a Gwinnett Daily Post Super 6 player of the year. Shepherd is close to breaking the 1,000 dig and 1,000 kill marks during her senior year. With her ability on the court, she should surpass those plateaus in no time.
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