#6 Kristan Brown

Sophomore season (2006) - Led Whitman in digs, averaging 3.16 per game while playing much of the season at libero ... Paced the Missionary defense with 23 and 20 digs, respectively, in a five-game matches with Whitworth and Pacific Lutheran ... Played two full matches at setter, handing out 56 assists to go with nine digs and four service aces in a four-game victory over Willamette, and distributing 46 assists and making five blocks in a four-game win over SUNY-Brockport ... Her 56 assists against Willamette was the highest number by an NWC player in a four-game match this season ... Was third on the team in service aces with 30.

Freshman season (2005) - Played in 77 games in her first college season, averaging 2.08 digs per game and served 27 aces, just two behind team leader Lydia Hayes ... Picked up a season-high 14 digs in a four-game win over George Fox ... Served four aces in five games against Pacific.

Prep - Logged two seasons of varsity vollyeball for coach Doug Ramirez and the "Scorpions" at Sage Ridge School ... Served as captain and earned team MVP honors in both seasons ... Was captain of the Sierra Nevada club volleyball team, coached by Ray Batalon, for five of her seven seasons ... Also ran track in her senior year at Sage Ridge.

Academics - Majoring in theatre at Whitman ... Spent two months (summer 2007) in the Summer Training Congress at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco ... As a sophomore played Clytemnestra, the murderous wife in the classic Greek myth Orestia, in a production of "Electra" at Whitman's Harper Joy Theatre; also played Holly, an overzealous blind date, in "Anticipating Life," one of the entries in the annual One-Act Play Contest ... In her first year at Whitman, appeared in a production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" ... Was valedictorian of her senior class at Sage Ridge School.

Personal - Daughter of Karen Burns and Ted Brown of Reno, Nev.

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