Laura McDonnell

Height:
5-8
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Portage Northern
Hometown:
Kalamazoo, Mich.

at Portage Northern High School: Led the Huskies to a pair of league and district championships and a combined 102-14-3 record as a junior and senior ... earned all-conference, all-district and all-region honors as a senior after guiding Portage Northern to a regional title ... recorded 162, 122 blocks and 2.4 kills per game at left outside hitter as a senior ... served with her twin sister, Maddie, as co-captain for the volleyball and basketball teams.

Personal: Daughter of Richard and Susan McDonnell ... twin sister, Maddie, is also a freshman on the Zips volleyball team ... has an older sister, Meredith, as well ... graduated from Portage Northern in top 25 percentile of her class and earned academic honors all four years ... her club team, Runbird, finished third at the Junior Olympics in Minneapolis, Minn. in 2006 ... intends to major in accounting at UA.