Blair Cherry

Bio

Career Honors: 

• SAC Offensive Player of the Week (Sept. 30, 2024; Nov. 11, 2025)
• 2024 All-SAC 2nd Team
• CSC Academic All-District (2024 & 2025)
• 2025 All-SAC 2nd Team
• South Atlantic Conference Elite 23 Award Winner
• 2025 3rd-Team CSC Academic All-American

2025 (Junior): Cherry earned a spot on the All-SAC second team for the second year in a row. Cherry navigated the Carson-Newman offense to success all season with 1,067 total assists in 2025. That mark was 3rd in the SAC and 37th in DII. This is her second season in a row that the junior has hit the 1,000 assist mark, and the 16th time in history that a Carson-Newman Eagle has tallied that many in a single season. Cherry officially moved into the 5th spot in career assists in Carson-Newman volleyball history in 2025 with 2818 in 316 sets. She is one of six C-N players to dish 2,500 assists over her career. She is also 19th among all active DII setters in career assists. With her 61 Aassist performance against Coker on Oct. 17, Cherry tied the single-game record for assists in a game at C-N. Her total of 1067 assists was 11th all-time in a single season, and her 10.36 assists per set was 7th in the single-season rankings. She finished the season with 11 double-doubles in digs and assists for 39 career. She notched 30 assists 20 times throughout the season and 50+ four different times. Cherry propelled her team back to the NCAA tournament for the first time in three years by orchestrating an offense that hit .242 in 2025, the fourth-best of any Carson-Newman Volleyball team to date. She finished the year 2nd on the team in aces and 3rd in total digs. 

In the SAC Tournament, Cherry was chosen as the SAC's Elite 23 winner for volleyball, which honors the student-athlete with the highest GPA at the tournament site. Not done with the academic awards, she collected All-District Recognition from the College Sports Communicators went on to become the first Eagle volleyball player to earn an Academic All-American nod. She made the third team, and was the only player in the SAC selected on this year's list. She was one of just three players from the Southeast region to earn recognition.

2024 (Sophomore): Was the Eagles top setter logging 1,013 assists in her second year with the Eagles and is the first time a Carson-Newman setter has reached the mark since 2021. She is also the 15th Eagle in history to dish 1,000 assists in a single season. She also averaged 9.83 assists/set, a mark good enough to land her 9th all-time in Eagles history in assists/set in a single season. Cherry was 2nd among all SAC setters in assists/set. At the end of the 2024 season, her 1736 career assists land her 8th all-time in the Carson-Newman record books. She was also an offensive weapon, collecting 111 kills, highlighted by the Sept. 27 match at Tusculum, where she came just a kill shy of the first triple-double in program history. She shined on multiple fronts for C-N with 17 double-doubles, ending the season with six in a row. Cherry's 37 service aces led the team and her 274 digs were 3rd amongst her teammates. 

2023 (Freshman): Was the Eagles' primary setter, playing in all 30 matches starting in 13. She recorded 239 digs, 62 kills, and 24 service aces. She led the team with 723 assists. Excelled in the match against No. 24 Wingate collecting a season-high 52 assists and 19 digs. Collected a season-high five kills in a match five times.

HIGH SCHOOL: Cherry joins the program after leading the region in career aces, accumulating 191 in her high school career. She also racked up 659 career kills and 864 career digs. The setter from Knoxville has a decorative list of personal and team honors from her time at Knoxville Catholic High School. She was a four-time all-region pick, making first-team all-region her sophomore, junior and senior year, on top of a first-team all-state and first-team 5StarPreps pick her junior and senior year. Cherry helped her team collect a regional championship in 2021 and 2022 and a state championship in 2022. She was a member of the National Honor Society and the 30+ ACT club. Her father, Brooks Cherry, played baseball at Freed Hardeman. Her sister, Blake Cherry is also a Carson-Newman volleyball athlete.