Name: Brynja Rodgers
Hometown: Iowa City, IA
Major: Biology
Positon: Setter

What's your favorite part about playing volleyball?
I love the team atmosphere and getting to work with a bunch of people. Individual sports are no fun. I like people!

What's your favorite movie?
Probably The Thomas Crown Affair

What's your favorite food?
Macaroni and Cheese  Continue Reading This Post >>

Name: Whitney Woods
Hometown: Midland, TX
Major: Business Finance
Positon: Right side hitter

What's your favorite part about playing volleyball?
You always have to play as a team. You can't ever try to make it just about you.

What's your favorite movie?
I don't really watch movies that much. I'm not a movie person.

What's your favorite food?
Spaghetti  Continue Reading This Post >>

Name: Kelsey Brennan
Hometown: Monroe, WA (about a 40 minute drive northeast of Seattle)
Major: Kinesiology
Position: Middle Blocker

What's your favorite part about playing volleyball?
It's kind of a tossup between the whole team aspect of it, it's really a true team sport, you really have to

have six people on the court where everybody's doing their job and the competitiveness of it, the "in your face"

when you get a block kind of thing.

What's your favorite movie?
Pride and Prejudice, the new one. Or Boondock Saints, it's kind of a tie between the two.

What's your favorite food?
Italian.

Any particular dish?
I love when my mom makes spaghetti.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Name: Jennah DeVries
Hometown: Sedalia, CO
Major: Kinesiology
Position: Setter

What's your favorite part about playing volleyball?
I love the competition. I love the game. I love six on six. I just love how tough it is, how mentally tough it is.

What's your favorite movie?
Pearl Harbor

What's your favorite food?
Seafood.

Any particular dish?
I like crab legs and shrimp.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Name: Krista Altermatt
Hometown: El Dorado Hills, CA
Major: Psychology
Position: Outside Hitter (left)

What's your favorite part about playing volleyball?
How it requires the whole team to play. I don't think there's another sport that requires half the team to touch the ball every time.

What's your favorite movie?
Right now I'd have to say "What Happens In Vegas." It just came out

What's your favorite food
Barbecued Chicken.

What's currently playing on your iPod
I have some T.I., Yung Joc, Carrie Underwood, I listen to everything.

What's your favorite television show?
I love The Hills.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Name: Erin Birmingham
Hometown: Kansas City, MO
Major: Kinesiology
Position: Middle Blocker

What's your favorite part about playing volleyball?
My favorite thing about playing volleyball, there's so many things I like about it. I just love the sport and it's really fun to compete. I also love the things that come along with getting to play volleyball like all the friendships that you make and all the relationships and experiences that come through volleyball.

What's your favorite movie?
I love romance comedies but my favorite is probably The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

The first one or the second one?
I love them both! The second one.

What's your favorite food?
My favorite food is fruit.

Any particular fruit or just all of them?
I love every fruit but I'm really obsessed with mangos lately.  Continue Reading This Post >>

Name: Alyssa Gintant
Hometown: I'm from a suburb of Chicago, Libertyville, Ill.
Major: Marketing with a minor in advertising
Position: Setter (one of them)

What's your favorite part about playing volleyball?
I enjoy the competitive nature of the sport. I really enjoy when people make big plays especially as a setter when I get one on ones for hitters and they just kill the ball.

What's your favorite movie?
Any Martin Scorsese film. I'm a big fan.

What's your favorite food?
Pizza

What's currently playing on your iPod?
Currently it's a mix that I made. The team really influences what I listen to so lately it's been a lot of pop and rap. I'm usually alternative.

What's your favorite television show?
It has to be Family Guy.  Continue Reading This Post >>