Mary Kurisch Class: Freshman Hometown: LaCrosse, Wis. High School: West Salem Height: 6-2 Position: OH/MB Birthdate: 06/26/1991

PREP: Her prep team won three straight co-conference championships (2006-2008), three regional championships (2006-2008), sectional championship (2006) and third-place finish at state (2006)...earned Coulee Conference first team recognition during her junior and senior years...LaCrosse Tribune Player of the Year and was an honorable mention all-state selection as a senior recording 313 kills with a .458 hitting pct. to go with 114 total blocks...excelled in track and field and basketball in her freshman through junior years...helped lead West Salem to a State Championship in 2007 and was state runner up in 2008...conference winner in discus (2006-08), and shot-put (2008), while placing sixth in the state in discus her junior year...was also a state qualifier in 2007 for discus and 2008 for shot put...in basketball, named to first team all-conference and first team all-area by LaCrosse Tribune in her junior year and led her conference in scoring...member of the National Honor Society...earned high honor roll status all four years.

CLUB VOLLEYBALL: 2005-2007 member of Club Shock...2007-2008 member of the Wisconsin Power-Sauk County coached by Ruth Leitzke.

PERSONAL: Intends to major in math education...Birthdate - June 28, 1991...daughter of Jeffery and Pamela Kurisch.