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USA WOMEN'S PLAYER PROFILE 
Position: Outside Hitter MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2008 – Pan American Cup (Fifth Place)...U.S. Olympic Team Exhibition for Volleyball versus Brazil...FIVB World Grand Prix (Fourth Place). 2005 – Montreux Volley Masters (7th Place)...FIVB World Grand Prix (Eighth Place). INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: 2008 – Contributed 73 points in 26 sets to help the U.S. finish fifth at Pan American Cup and earn 2009 World Grand Prix berth…Averaged 2.81 points, 2.38 kills, 0.31 blocks and 0.77 digs per set at the Pan American Cup…Tallied 15 points in loss to Puerto Rico on June 5…Hit .710 against Argentina, the bronze medalist at the Pan American Cup, with 10 kills on 14 errorless swings in a June 1 victory…Started two of three sets played versus Brazil on June 13 compiling three kills and an ace…Started two of four sets played at the FIVB World Grand Prix compiling two kills on nine attacks and an ace. 2005 – Participated at the Montreaux Volley Masters and FIVB World Grand Prix events. 2003 – Member of USA National A2 program. 2002 – Member of U.S. Women’s Junior National Team. 2001 – Traveled with U.S. Women's National Team player and served as a practice player at the Montreux Volley Masters tournament...Member of U.S. Women’s Junior National Team. 2000 – Captain of U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team…Traveled to Switzerland with U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team. COLLEGE: Two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association All-American while competing as an outside hitter at Stanford University (2003-2006)... Concluded collegiate career in 2006 ranked among the top 10 in several career categories with the Cardinal. Holds the Stanford record for career digs (1,597) and career dig average (3.44 per set), while ranking third in career attacks (4,350). Ranks fifth with 1,819-career kills and 3.92 kills per set…Served 126 aces for fifth place, while her 0.27 aces per set ranks tied for seventh…Played in a 464 total games for ninth place at Stanford. 2006: Earned All-American Honorable Mention by Volleyball Magazine and was a Third Team honoree by the AVCA...Named to the All-Pac-10 Team for the fourth-straight season. 2005: First-Team AVCA All-American and ASICS/Volleyball All-American...Also named First-Team AVCA Pacific Region…Named to the All-Pac-10 First Team for a third-straight season...Finished first on the team in kills (544, 4.90 kpg, third in the Pac-10, 19th in the country) as a starter in 32 matches...Her 544 kills is sixth-best for a single season in school history. 2004: Played in 132 games…Volleyball Magazine All-American…NCAA All-Tournament selection…NCAA Regional All-Tournament choice...Pac-10 First Team selection…Averaged 3.68 kills and 3.80 digs per game. 2003: Volleyball Magazine National Freshman of the Year...AVCA Pacific Region Freshman of the Year…Pac-10 Freshman of the Year…All-Pac-10 selection…Averaged 3.38 kills and 3.03 digs per game. High School: Four-year letterwinner at Timpanogos High School in Orem, Utah…Captained her team during her junior and senior seasons…Four-time all-region selection and all-state honoree…2000 & 2002 Region MVP…2000 Student Sports National Sophomore of the Year…2001 & 2002 All-American…2001 & 2002 Utah Gatorade Player of the Year…The 2002 State MVP…2003 National Gatorade Player of the Year…2001 & 2002 Academic all-region selection…Led her team to a state championship in 2002-03…Played club for the Players Volleyball Club, and helped her team win the 2002 Nationals…Voted MVP. Personal: Born Kristin Richards on June 30, 1985…Daughter of Dave and Lori Richards…has one sister (Lauren) and two brothers (Andrew and Taylor)…Sister, Lauren, played volleyball at BYU and is now coaching at American University…Both her father and mother played volleyball at BYU…Father, Dave, also played on the U.S. National Team from 1978 to 1980...Graduated from Stanford in 2007 with a bachelor of arts degree in urban studies...Played volleyball since age eight...Rehabilited two consecutive knee surgeries in nine months...Happiest moment in sports was winning the NCAA Division I national championship in 2004...Happiest moments in life were graduating from Stanford and her sister's marriage...Hobbies include skiing, photography, sleeping, outdoors and beach volleyball...Admires her mother most because she has endured a lot growing up and is an amazing individual...Favorite athlete is Karch Kiraly...Favorite movie is Wedding Crashers and favorite television shows are Family Guy and Friends...Favorite book is Tuesday's with Morrie...Favorite music is country and favorite musical group is Bloc Party...Favorite food is pizza. 20 Questions with Kristin Richards COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 25, 2007) - Kristin Richards, an outside hitter on the USA Women's National Team, recently completed the latest installment of "20 Questions with the Women's National Team."
What do you like to do in your spare time? What do you envision doing as a career after competing for the national team? Who was your club coach prior to going to college? Where would you like to spend a week’s vacation? If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? What is your favorite television program? What is your favorite movie? What is your favorite book? Who is the funniest player on the women’s national team? Are you a morning person, afternoon person or night person? On an airplane, would you rather, sleep, read, work on a computer or talk with the person sitting next to you? What is the best thing about competing on the USA Women’s National Team? Who is your favorite athlete? What is your favorite food? What is your favorite restaurant to eat at? What is your hometown best known for? How many different languages can you converse in? What was your favorite subject in school? What is your fondest child-hood memory? If you could see any musical act or performer (dead or alive) in concert, who would it be? If you won the lottery, what is the first thing that you would buy or pay for? If you could have one super power, what would it be? If a movie was made about your life, which actor or actress would you want to play you? If you could live in another time period for a week, which one would you choose? If you could be on the cover of one magazine, which one would you choose? What is the most “embarrassing” song on your iPod? What three words would you use to describe yourself? What is your favorite holiday? What is your favorite season – winter, spring, summer or fall? What are your most prized possessions? What is your motto? What reality show (American Idol, the Apprentice, the Real World, Survivor, Big Brother, etc.) would you be best on? What communication tool do you use most often – text messaging, talking on the cell phone or e-mail? Posted and updated: June 10, 2008 |
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