Madi Bugg
6′0″11 Year ProApec, North Carolina
Madi Bugg

Professional Experience

  • Joins the Rise after a decade of professional experience, spent the last two seasons with LOVB Salt Lake and LOVB Atlanta after previously competing in Europe with clubs in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, and Poland.
  • 2024 CEV Champions League and Italian Serie A1 champion with Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano, while also winning the Italian Cup and Italian Supercup.
  • Named the French Saforelle Power 6 Best Setter in 2021 after leading ASPTT Mulhouse to league and French Cup championships.
  • In Germany, helped Allianz MTV Stuttgart win the Bundesliga title in 2019 and Dresdner SC 1898 capture the German Cup in 2018.
  • Won the French Cup with ASPTT Mulhouse Volley-Ball during the 2020-21 season.
  • Competed in Athletes Unlimited during the 2024 and 2025 seasons, finishing individually near the top of the leaderboard with a 16th place in 2024 (2,411 points) and 26th in 2025 (1,575 points).
Year Team Country
2027 Grand Rapids Rise United States
2026 LOVB Salt Lake United States
2025 Athletes Unlimited Pro League United States
2025 LOVB Atlanta United States
2024 Athletes Unlimited Pro League United States
2023-24 Prosecco Doc Imoco Volley Conegliano Italy
2022-23 MOYA Radomka Lotnisko Warszawa-Radom Poland
2021-22 Acqua & Sapone Roma Volley Club Italy
2020-21 ASPTT Mulhouse Volley-Ball France
2019-20 ASPTT Mulhouse Volley-Ball France
2018-19 Allianz MTV Stuttgart Germany
2017-18 Dresdner SC 1898 Germany
2016-17 Viteos NUC Switzerland

College Experience

  • Played four seasons Stanford University (2012-15), finishing her career ranked second all time with 5,014 assists and eighth with 121 aces.
  • Three-time AVCA All-American, earning First Team honors in 2014,
  • Second Team in 2015, and Third Team in 2013.
  • Three-time Pac-12 Setter of the Year and all-league selection (2015, 2014, 2013)
  • 2012 All-Pac-12 Freshman Team
  • Led the nation with 12.10 assists per set as a junior, helping top-ranked Stanford to a 28-match winning streak before its run ended in the NCAA Tournament semifinals. The postseason run included a Sweet 16 victory over a Michigan State squad coached by Cathy George.
  • 2014 Pac-12 Conference Champion

High School / Club Experience

  • A four-year letterwinner and captain as a sophomore, junior and senior at Cardinal Gibbons Catholic High School in Raleigh, North Carolina.
    Four-time conference champion and three-time state champion (2009-11)
  • Team was the state runner-up in 2008.
  • North Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year (2011, 2009)
  • Conference Player of the Year and high school All-American in 2011
  • Earned all-conference honors as a sophomore, junior and senior
  • Three-time MVP of the state championship (2009-11).
  • One of just two players in school history to reach the 1,000 kills plateau (1,020).
  • Holds the school record for career aces (230).
  • Inducted into Cardinal Gibbons High School’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 2023.
  • Competed for Triangle Volleyball Club.
  • Member of the U.S. Youth National Team that won the 2010 NORCECA U19 Championships in Guatemala and she was named the Best Setter for the tournament.

Personal Information

  • Daughter of Dick and Robin Bugg. Her mother was a three-time All-Conference middle blocker at the University of Tennessee, who was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004.
  • Has a younger brother, Logan, and a younger sister, Avery, who was a libero at Ole Miss (2018-21).
  • Majored in political science at Stanford.
  • Born in Plano, Texas.
  • Married to Matthew West, who is also a pro volleyball setter playing for Mets de Guaynabo in Puerto Rico.
  • Her Mother-in-Law, Raquel Chumpitaz West, set professionally for about 15 years and went to the Moscow Olympics for Peru.
  • Started playing volleyball at 10 years old as a setter.
  • Favorite music artists include Olivia Dean, Chris Stapleton, and Kacey Musgraves.
  • Enjoys hanging out with friends, reading, traveling, and being outside.