Mary Kurisch Class: Junior Hometown: La Crosse, Wis. High School: West Salem Height: 6-2 Position: OH/MB

2010: Played in all 35 matches including 130 of 132 sets as a middle blocker...led the team with a career-high solo blocks (21), block assists (87), and total blocks (108)...finished second on the team and seventh in the conference in hitting percentage with a mark of .324...totaled a career-best 287 kills (third on team)...also set new career marks with 17 aces, 42 assists, 62 digs, and 368.5 points (third on team)...tallied eight matches with 10 or more kills with her season-high 19 versus Eastern Michigan (Nov. 19)...posted six matches with five or more blocks, including a season-best seven on four different instances...finished 20 matches with 10 or more points with the best performance of the season coming against Eastern Michigan (Nov. 19) where she finished with 20.0...was a Victory Scholar (3.50 GPA or better).

2009: Appeared in 28 of 30 matches and 102 of 108 sets as a middle blocker...made Huskie debut against Western Illinois (Aug. 28), totaling four kills on nine swings with just one error, one assist, two digs, and three blocks for 6.5 points...led team in solo blocks (14)...ranked second on the team in hitting percentage (.247) and blocks with 71 (0.70/set)...ranked fourth on the team with 160 kills (1.57/set) and 202.5 points (1.99/set)...tallied two matches with 10-plus kills, including a season-high 14 against Milwaukee (Sept. 15)...had had multiple blocks in all but five matches...posted three or more blocks in a match on 12 occasions...had four-plus blocks in five matches...totaled five or more blocks three times...notched a season-best six blocks at Eastern Michigan (Nov. 13)...registered nine matches with 10 or more points, including a season-high 15.5 against Milwaukee (Sept. 15)...named a Victory Scholar (3.50 or better GPA)...participated on the Bring It Promotions/USA Development Team in June on an 11-day competitive trip to Brazil.

High School: 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: 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.

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