Outstanding all-around player ... good ball control, passer and defender ... plays well out of the back row ... crafty and powerful hitter ... great court sense and understanding of the game.
As a Freshman (2010): Made a splash on the college scene in her first season with the Irish ... named AVCA Northeast Region Freshman of Year, the latest of three Notre Dame players to earn the region's top honor for a freshman ... BIG EAST Conference Freshman of the Year ... all-region honorable mention ... first team all-BIG EAST ... Notre Dame Monogram Club Co-MVP ... CVU.com Rising Star ... the dynamic McHugh led Notre Dame with 386 kills (3.48/set), 32 aces (0.29/set) and was third with 279 digs (2.51/set) ... accounted for 437.5 of Notre Dame's 1,887.5 points on the season ... ranked second among league players in kills/set (4.08) during conference play behind only Cincinnati's Stephanie Niemer (5.17), who was named BIG EAST Player of the Year ... also second with 4.67 points/set and seventh with 0.40 aces/set ... played with the U.S. Women's Junior National Team in the 2011 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship held in Peru, which finished fourth in the event ... named BIG EAST Conference Freshman of the Week after her collegiate debut at the Shamrock Invitational (Aug. 28-29) while making quite an impact both on the court and in the box scores ... registered a pair of double-doubles as her 11 kills and 16 digs against Marshall (Aug. 27) came before 14 kills and 18 digs against Cal Poly (Aug. 28) ... blistered Arizona (Aug. 29) with 12 kills and a solo block ... also had an ace in each of the invite's three matches ... on the weekend, she averaged 3.08 kills/set and 3.17 digs/set with 3.42 points/set ... became the first Irish player to earn the award after the season's opening weekend since Christina Kaelin did so in 2006 ... two of her five blocks versus Belmont (Sept. 3) were of the solo variety ... also had 15 kills and two aces against the Bruins ... went for 11 kills on 23 attempts with two errors (.391) in a sweep over Weber State (Sept. 4) ... mashed 17 kills with 16 digs and four blocks at Nevada (Sept. 4) ... named to the Nevada Invitational all-tournament team ... went for 12 kills and 14 digs in a five-match loss to Delaware (Sept. 17) ... Notre Dame rode McHugh's arm during a 3-0 sweep of West Virginia (Sept. 24), as she came through with 16 kills and 13 scoops for the fifth double-double of her brief career ... seven of those kills came in the third set when Notre Dame rallied from a 24-20 deficit to capture the win ... went on to post nine kills and seven digs in a 3-0 win against Pittsburgh (Sept. 26) ... she wrapped up the weekend with 4.77 kills/set and 3.33 digs/set, earning her a second BIG EAST Freshman of the Week Honor (Sept. 27) ... set a new career high with 19 kills - the most by an Irish player in a three-set match since 2006 - at Georgetown (Oct. 3) on a .562 clip (also her best hitting pct. on the season) ... nine of those kills came in the third set ... the effort came on the heels of posting 13 kills and five aces at USF (Oct. 1), making her the first Irish player with five aces in a contest since 2007 ... on the weekend, she hit .475 and averaged 5.33 kills/set and 0.83 aces/set ... went for 15 kills at Louisville (Oct. 9) and 12 more at Cincinnati (Oct. 10) ... named BIG EAST Freshman of the Week (Oct. 18) for a school-record fourth time after pounding a career-high 23 kills on a .340 clip during a 3-1 win over DePaul (Oct. 15) ... added an ace and two blocks (one solo, one block assist) against the blue demons ... had seven kills in both the second and third sets as Notre Dame posted its eighth straight win over DePaul ... 14 digs at Western Michigan (Oct. 19) ... 14 kills on a .462 average with two aces during a three-set sweep of Syracuse (Oct. 23) ... sixth double-double of the season came against Marquette (Oct. 24), when she had 19 kills and 10 digs ... 12 digs and two aces against St. John's (Oct. 30) ... went for 17 kills - including her 300th of the season - and 14 digs and three aces versus Connecticut (Oct. 31), while also racking four blocks (three of the solo variety) ... named big east freshman of the week (Nov. 1) for the fifth time on the season to set a Notre Dame record ... churned out 12 kills and nine digs at Villanova (Nov. 5) ... had 12 kills - six in the first set - and a team-high 16 digs versus Northern Iowa (Nov. 7) ... nine kills on a .368 average with two aces and seven digs at Rutgers (Nov. 13) ... finished with an even double-double as 10 kills and 10 digs came in a three-set sweep of Seton Hall (Nov. 14) ... had 10+ kills in seven of the season's last eight matches - including the last four - highlighted by a 16-kill performance with a .371 clip against Cincinnati (Nov. 20) in the BIG EAST Championship ... scooped 17 shots against Villanova (Nov. 19) in the opening round of the league tournament.
The McHugh File: Member of the 2009 U.S. Youth National Team ... played in the 2009 FIVB World Youth Championships in Thailand ... ranked 76th among PrepVolleyball.com's Senior Aces ... led club team to a third-place showing in the 18-open division of the 2010 National Junior Olympics while being named to the all-tournament team ... 2009 PrepVolleyball.com All-American ... AVCA All-American Watch List in 2009 ... first team all-CIF Division I, all-Orange County, and Century League MVP in 2009 ... led El Dorado High School to the league championship in 2008 and 2009 ... El Dorado was ranked 40th in the nation by PrepVolleyball.com and 12th in California by MaxPreps.com ... all-Century League second team as El Dorado High School also won the Century League championship in 2007 ... all-tournament team at the Dave Mohs Orange County Championship, leading her team to a third-place finish ... all-tournament team at the Las Vegas Durango Fall Classic ... all-tournament team at the Redondo Beach Power Classic ... one of PrepVolleyball.com's Top 150 Sophomores ... two-time team captain ... set school records for single-season kills/set (2.42), digs (373) ... all-time leader in kills (1,019) and digs (793) ... also lettered in track as a high jumper ... full name is Andrea Lynn McHugh ... born Aug. 18, 1992, in Long Beach, Calif. ... parents are Jeff and Lori McHugh ... father played basketball at Stanford from 1975-1978 and one year professionally in Switzerland ... has two siblings, Matthew and Lauren ... grandfather, Jim Hanna, played basketball and baseball at USC ... brother, Matt, plays basketball at Azusa Pacific ... president of Fellowship of Christian Athletes ... member of California Scholarship Federation.
