Megan Hodge

Megan Hodge Easy (born October 15, 1988) is an American indoor volleyball player who won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics with the US team and played for Pennsylvania State University's volleyball team. Following college, also played professionally in Puerto Rico, Italy, Poland, Azerbaijan, China, and Brazil. In 2023, Hodge returned to Penn State Volleyball as assistant coach. In 2024, she helped lead the team to the NCAA women's volleyball championship, where it won its eighth national title in program history.

Hodge was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1992 when Megan was 3 years old, her family moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina for educational reasons at UNC. They later then moved to Durham, North Carolina in 1999. Her parents, Michael and Carmen, are both former members of the U.S. Virgin Islands national volleyball team. Her mother, Carmen, played volleyball at George Washington University, and her father played at the University of the Virgin Islands.

Hodge began playing volleyball at age 12, and when she started, she could not stop. She attended Riverside High School, where she was one of the most dominant young players in the nation. She posted a four-year total of 1,596 kills, 319 blocks, 647 digs, 286 aces and 130 assists. Hodge was the best girls' volleyball player in North Carolina history.

She was a four-time Pac-6 all-conference selection and was the Pac-6 Player of the Year two times, including a unanimous selection in 2006. She participated on the USA Youth and Junior National Teams, where she was voted the Most Valuable Player and "Best Attacker" at the 2004 NORCECA Championships in Cataño, Puerto Rico.

Hodge played club volleyball for North Carolina's "Triangle Volleyball Club. She was selected as the Most Valuable Player of the North Carolina Regional Championships in 2004 in the 18's Gold age division, in 2005 for the 17's Platinum division and in 2006 for the 18's Platinum division. She became the first ever player from the Carolina region to be named to the all-Tournament team at the USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships.

After being named the North Carolina Volleyball Gatorade Player of the Year as a junior and senior, she was named the 2006 Gatorade National Player of the Year for volleyball. Hodge was considered the top high school recruit for the class of 2006 and got over 150 scholarship offers from various universities, such as volleyball powerhouses Stanford, USC, Washington, and Long Beach State. She, along with two other top 10 high school recruits, led Penn State to the consensus number 1 recruiting class ranking for the Class of 2006.

Hodge is a 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) outside hitter, and she can jump and touch 10 feet 8 inches (3.25 m).

Penn State career highlights include scoring the championship winning kill in the 2007 NCAA championship over Stanford, and the championship kill in the 2009 championship against Texas and being named the Big Ten Player of the Year as a freshman, the first freshman to accomplish the feat.