Alisha Glass Class: Junior Hometown: Leland, Mich. High School: Leland Height: 6-0 Position: S/Opp.

Pronounced: Ah-LEE-sha • Glass

Lion Career
2007 (Sophomore): AVCA Second Team All-America ... NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team ... AVCA First Team All-Mideast Region ... First Team All-Big Ten ... Sports Imports/AVCA National and Big Ten Player of the Week (11/19) ... started 35 of 36 matches and played in 114 of 122 games ... directed the Penn State offense to a nation-leading .350 hitting percentage ... under her guidance, the Lions shattered the NCAA Tournament record for team hitting percentage (besting the previous mark of .369 set by the 1995 Long Beach State team), attacking at a combined .424 clip while averaging 16.75 kills per game through six matches ... in her two years at the helm of the Penn State offense, the Nittany Lions are attacking at a combined .336 clip with an average of 16.94 kills per game ... had two attackers ranked in the top five in the nation in hitting percentage (Christa Harmotto, second, .492; Arielle Wilson, fifth, .446) ... led the team, ranked fourth in the Big Ten and 24th in the country with an average of 13.02 assists per game ... dished out 1,484 total assists, a mark that ties her for 10th on the single-season record list with Sam Tortorello in 2005 ... ends her sophomore season with 2,897 career assists, good for sixth on the all-time career assists chart, while her career 12.76 assists per game average places her second all-time behind Tortorello ... recorded 60 or more assists on five occasions, including a career-high 69 in the five game loss to Stanford at the Yale Classic (9/15) ... produced 91 kills for the season, including a season-high seven on .400 hitting in the national championship match against Stanford (12/15) ... had at least one kill in 32 matches ... ranked fourth on the team in digs with 198 for an average of 1.74 digs per game ... set a new personal best with 16 digs against Stanford (9/15) ... had five double-digit dig matches ... tallied 108 total blocks to sit fourth on the squad, the highest total by a non-middle attacker ... recorded a career high 14 stuffs at Illinois (10/19), a mark that set a new five-game rally-scoring-era record and fell just one block shy of the all-time five-game match record of 15 set by middle hitter Robyn Goukas at Michigan on Oct. 7, 2000 ... had 26 multiple-block matches ... also tallied 12 service aces.

2006 (Freshman): Big Ten All-Freshmen Team ... Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week (9/11) ... Big Ten Player of the Week (9/11) ... Texas Invitational All-Tournament Team ... Penn State Classic Most Valuable Player ... started all 35 matches and played in 113 of 114 games ... spent most of the season as a 5-1 setter, but also saw time as a 6-2 setter/hitter, attacking primarily on the right side ... led the team and finished seventh in the Big Ten with 12.50 assists per game ... also ranked third on the squad with 1.14 blocks per game and fourth with 21 service aces and 2.04 digs per game ... also chipped in 1.16 kills per game ... set the team to a Big Ten- and nation-best .323 hitting percentage, the only team in the country to finish the season hitting higher than .300 ... earned National Player of the Week honors after averaging 13.38 assists per game while leading the team to a .327 hitting percentage against Missouri and Texas at the Texas Invitational (9/7-8) ... dished out at least 17 assists in every match of the year, including a career-high 63 in the five-game thriller at Texas (9/8) ... recorded a personal-best nine kills in the season-opener against Nicholls State (8/25) while playing a 6-2 ... tallied eight kills in the 5-1 at Texas (9/8) ... hit for a career-high .714 percentage (5-0-7) against Lehigh (9/16) ... posted five double-doubles for the season ... recorded a career-high 17 digs at LSU (8/26) to go along with her 37 assists for her first career double-double ... had at least one dig in every match of the year and had five or more digs on 25 occasions ... recorded 129 total blocks for the year ... posted a career-best seven blocks three times, including the season-opener against Nicholls State (8/25), at Texas (9/8) and at Michigan State (11/17) ... tallied at least one block in 33 matches and had 30 multiple-block matches ... notched 14 matches of five or more stuffs ... also had at least one service ace in 16 contests, including a career-high three versus Tennessee State (9/15).

High School
Four-year letterwinner at Leland (Mich.) High School ... Michigan Gatorade Player of the Year ... led her squad to the 2006 Class D state championship, producing a single-match record of 48 kills in the title match ... named Miss Volleyball for the state of Michigan in 2006 ... four-time first team all-state, all-region dream team and all-conference ... is the National and State High School record holder in season aces (296), career aces (937) and career kills (3,584) ... during scholastic career attacked at a .440 clip while also contributing 1,816 digs and 680 blocks ... ranked sixth on PrepVolleyball.com's "Senior Aces" list ... was a member of the 2005 US Youth National A2 Team and played on the USA Red squad that won the gold medal at the HP Championships in Austin, Texas, where she also received the "Best Setter" award ... started on the 2004 USA Youth National Team that won the gold medal in Puerto Rico at the NORCECA Games, where she was recognized as "Best Server" ... a complete athlete, was also named first team all-state as a basketball player as a junior and senior ... was voted one of the top 25 players in the state by the Detroit Free Press ... member of the National Honor Society with a 3.7 grade point average.

Personal
Born Alisha Rebecca Glass on April 5, 1988 ... mother is Laurie Glass, who was also her high school volleyball coach ... grandfather Larry Glass was her high school basketball coach ... kinesiology major with a minor in Human Development & Family Studies ... names favorite book as "The Measure of a Man: The Spiritual Autobiography of Sidney Poitier," favorite movie as "Antwone Fisher," favorite entertainer as Christa Harmotto, favorite place to visit as Ibiza, Spain, a place she has never been to "but it looks fun!", favorite food as Quaker Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Chewy Granola Bars, favorite actor as Morgan Freeman, favorite actress as Halle Berry and favorite pro sports team as the Detroit Pistons ... nickname is Leash or "Hey You!"

Quoting Russ Rose
"As Alisha progressed last season and she got better and better, we as a team got better and better. She is one of the top young players in the country at the setting position and she continues to expand on the things that she can do offensively. Alisha is clearly one of the best blocking setters in the nation. She strives to make progress in her development as a player and as a team leader. Alisha is a fabulous team player and the thing that I recruited her on was her energy, her interaction skills and the things that I projected her being able to impact. I didn't know that she would become the force that she has as a blocker, and as she continues to develop and get a better feel for the nuances of the game and this team, she will continue to grow and make our team even better."

Glass' Expectations
"Set the bar even higher; don't settle for what happened in the past, exceed expectations; challenge ourselves to be better than we were yesterday; establish team cohesion unique to this season's team; start practices hungry, leave practices satisfied; come together, have fun, be crazy; understand the importance of details, every opponent, and every match; peak at the right time, end the season with a win."