Madeleine Gates

A middle blocker from San Diego, California, Madeleine has won titles at the collegiate, international and professional levels. She played with the U.S. National Team from 2021-23, winning four medals at zonal tournaments, including gold at the 2023 NORCECA Final Six. In college, she led Stanford to the 2019 DI national championship in 2019, also earning Third Team AVCA All-American. Two years earlier, she was Second Team All-American at UCLA. After college, she competed professionally in Germany, France and Italy, winning the 2020/21 Bundesliga title with Dresdner SC 1898. After spending 2023/24 in Serie A1, Madeleine returned to the classroom as a doctoral student in organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon.