Lana Gomilanovic

Coach’s Comments: "Lana is an athletic and exciting player who has a powerful attack and all-around abilities that allow her to a major threat to opponents on both offense and defense. She can hit a variety of sets, tools the block well, and has the ability to adjust to what a defense is doing against her. Her strong serve and back row skills add even more value to our program to allow us to have another strong attack and shut down the attacks and serves of our opponents. Lana gained much experience, in 2025, to help her to adjust to the college game and the Cowley style of play. She has put that experience to use in the off-season to enhance her skill set and add new skills to prepare for a successful 2026 season."

 

2025 (Freshman): Played in 124 sets... recorded 428 kills at 3.45 kills per set, a .231 hitting percentage, 56 aces, 279 digs, and 20 blocks...Named First Team All-District, KJCCC First Team All-Conference, and was named Cowley College Invitational All-Tournament....Recorded a career high 23 kills against Johnson County...Recorded 12 double-doubles.

 

Before Cowley: Prepped at International School Belgrade, where, including elementary school, she played four sports: volleyball, basketball, soccer, and track and field. She began playing volleyball for the Volleytrend Volleyball Club from 2013 to 2018. In 2019, she joined the Partizan Volleyball Club, one of Serbia's biggest and strongest volleyball clubs, and has won numerous championships. She played for the U15 team, which finished first in the U15 League of Serbia. She served as team captain and played for the U17 team. They won Radnicki Tournament (U15). In 2020 and 2021, she continued to play for the Partizan volleyball club, won the Kragujevac Tournament (U17), and was named School Athlete of the Year. In 2022, she then joined the Obilic volleyball club. That year, she debuted for the senior team (at 16), where her team earned promotion from Third to Second in the Women's Volleyball League of Serbia.  She also played for the U19 team, won the Ludaja Cup Kikinda (U19), Ok Crnjanski tournament (Senior team), Kragujevac tournament (Senior team), and Obilic tournament third place (Senior team). In 2023, she was named to the Central Serbia All-Star team, served as U19 team captain and Senior team co-captain, and was honored as the most utilized player across all the Obilic teams. In 2024, she played her final club season for the Obilic volleyball club, where she again played for the Senior team and U19 team, won the Smederevo tournament (Senior team), and won the Obilic tournament second place (Senior team). She served as team co-captain for her U19 team and Senior team. Off the court, she was named student psychology mentor, a member of the Student Parliament, named MUN best volunteer, and had a top 10 graduation score.