Khalia Lanier

Khalia Imani Lanier (born September 19, 1998) is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Italian Series A1 team Vero Volley Milano and the United States women's national team. She played collegiately for the USC Trojans volleyball team, where she was an All-American outside hitter.

Personal life

Lanier was born and raised in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the daughter of NBA Hall of Fame legend Bob Lanier. She chose to play volleyball over basketball, stating in an interview "I didn't want to play basketball because I didn't want to be in [her father's] spotlight."

She attended Xavier College Preparatory high school. She started her international volleyball career as a member of the 2011 USAV Future Select Team. She was part of the United States U18 Team and won a silver medal at the 2015 U18 World Championship.

She was named the 2015–2016 Gatorade National Player of the Year in girls' volleyball, marking her the top high school volleyball player in the nation.

Career

College

Lanier played college volleyball for USC from 2016 to 2019. She majored in human biology and graduated from USC in the spring of 2020.

As a freshman in 2016, she received AVCA All-America honorable mention and was named to the AVCA All-Pacific South Region Team and the Pac-12 All-Conference and All-Freshman Team. She led the team and ranked second in the Pac-12 for points and was third in the Pac-12 for kills. She started in all 121 sets played for the team and finished with 491 kills, 315 digs and 47 blocks.

As a sophomore in 2017, she serve as a team captain and was named an AVCA first-team All-American and was on the Pac-12 All-Conference Team. She finished her sophomore season with 511 kills and 578.5 points. She became the 17th player in USC program history to reach 1,000 career kills and only the second to do so in her first two seasons.

Professional clubs

Pinkin de Corozal (2020–2021) Volley Bergamo 1991 (2020–2023) Imoco Volley (2023–2025) Vero Volley Milano (2025–)

Awards and honors

Clubs

College

AVCA All-American (First Team in 2017; Second Team in 2019) Pac-12 All-Conference (2016–2019) Senior CLASS Award finalist in volleyball (2019)