Position: Setter
Height: 5'9"Pro Experience: 0 years
College: BYU
Hometown: Nampa, Idaho

PVF Transactions: Drafted with the No. 9 (second round) selection in the 2023 Pro Volleyball Federation Draft by Atlanta.

Professional Experience

• Atlanta Vibe - 2024 

College Experience

• AVCA Southwest All-Region team
• All-Big 12 First Team
• WCC Player of the Year
• WCC Setter of the Year
• Left BYU as the program's rally scoring era assists leader, tallying 4,583 in her five-year career.

• Finished her Cougar career first in the history books in sets played (464), second in service aces (135) and third in total digs (1,230).

High School/Club Experience

• Graduated from Skyview High School, played for Idaho Crush volleyball club
• Won back-to-back 4A Idaho State championships and placed second the third year
• Two-time Prepvolleyball.com All-American
• Top 50 Junior Recruit by PrepVolleyball.com
• 2018 Southern Idaho Conference Player of the Year
• Three-time All-State selection
• As a 14-year-old, helped 16U team to top-10 finish at USAV Junior Olympics after becoming the first team from Idaho to qualify for the event
• Reclassified after her junior year to graduate early and skip her senior season

Personal

• Parents are Danny and Caroline Bower
• Comes from a long line of BYU athletes: her mother was an outside hitter at BYU (1996-99) and father was a shooting guard on the men’s basketball team for the Cougars (1998-99). Her grandfather, Wayne, also played football at BYU (1970-73). Whitney is one of seven sisters - her sister Morgan played for BYU women's volleyball (2019-22), and she played alongside her sister Eden for the Cougars.
• Frequent contestant in wild turkey calling contests