Kelsea Seymour Weldon (2024) - Southern Miss M-Club Hall of Fame

Kelsea Seymour Weldon

Induction:
2024

Kelsea Seymour Weldon (Volleyball, 2008-11)
Enrolling at Southern Miss in Fall 2008, Kelsea Seymour (Weldon) arrived in Hattiesburg as a setter for head coach Ricci Luyties. The Long Beach, Calif., native played in all 30 matches as true freshman – a trend she followed closely for the next three years – making 27 starts to earn the first of four letters for the Golden Eagles. She led team in assists (780) and averaged 7.22 per set while also leading the squad with 30 service aces.

Seymour, along with the entire Golden Eagle program, enjoyed unprecedented highs in the 2009 campaign as Luyties led Southern Miss to an outright Conference USA regular season title. For her efforts, which included starting in all 32 of Southern Miss' matches and 1,259 assists, she was named First Team All-C-USA, Conference USA Setter of the Year and earned AVCA Division I All-American and Midwest All-Region honorable mention honors. In 2011, she once again earned national praise as she was named to her second All-Conference USA First Team and earned First Team All-Midwest Region honors from the AVCA as well as AVCA All-American honorable mention honors. She led the team with 1,272 assists, ranking second in Conference USA with 10.97 per set, and recorded the league's only triple double that season with 10 kills, 34 assists and 13 digs against Memphis.

After joining the 3,000-assist club as a junior, Seymour cruised past the 4,000-assist plateau with 1,324 as a senior in 2011. She finished with 4,635 career assists – the second-most in program history at the time of her graduation. She is also ranked 10th in career digs (1,223) and owns two career triple-doubles as a Golden Eagle after an 11-kill, 58-assist, 14-dig performance against Houston on Nov. 20, 2011. She is the only Golden Eagle to earn three consecutive First Team All-Conference honors and owns 10 Player of the Week awards over her career.

After graduation from Southern Miss 2012, Seymour began a career as a social studies teacher and volleyball coach at Oak Grove High School. She helped grow interest and sponsorship for the game in the Pine Belt region as the owner and director of Hub City Volleyball Club while helped the Warriors with four district titles. She was named the first head coach of William Carey volleyball in 2016 and was charged with leading the creation of the program for the Lady Crusaders.