4  Katelyn Steffan Class: RS Senior Hometown: Dickinson, N.D. High School: Dickinson Height: 6-4 Position: Opposite Hitter Experience: 3V

Awards & Honors:

• Academic all-Mountain West (2010)
• Mountain West Player of the Week (Sept. 15, 2008)

2010 (Junior): As a junior, was one of four players to appear in all 110 sets, starting in 26 of the Rams' 31 matches...Recorded 199 total kills on the season, fourth on team, and averaged 1.81 per set...Finished the season with the third-highest hitting percentage on the team (.272), and led the team in hitting in two matches...Her 19 aces ranked fourth on the squad...Had multiple aces in a match five times...In on a total of 94 blocks, third most on the team...Recorded multiple blocks in a match 24 times, including five or more six times...During a three-game stretch from Sept. 16-24, averaged 6.0 blocks per game, led by a career-high eight vs. then-No. 24 Long Beach State (Sept. 17)...Paced the Rams in blocks six times, second most on the team...One of four players with 250 or more total points on the season (267)...Capped the year with nine or more points in the final five games of the season, including a career-high 15 in a first-round NCAA tournament win over Cal State Fullerton (Dec. 3)...Named to academic all-Mountain West team.

2009 (Sophomore): Appeared in 26 matches for the Rams, missing four straight between Aug. 30 and Sept. 5 with a foot injury...Recorded a career-high 12 kills for CSU in a five-set victory over Northern Colorado on Sept. 30...Helped CSU to the tournament championship at the Carolina Classic, posting career bests for solo blocks (4), and total blocks (7) in the Rams' victory over host North Carolina on Sept. 12...Notched double-digit kills in three matches...Led the team in hitting percentage in three consecutive contests--vs. San Diego state (.500; 8-2-12), at Utah (.312; 9-4-6) and at BYU (.364; 11-3-22), between Nov. 7 and Nov. 14...Tallied 14 service aces, fourth on the team.

2008 (Freshman): Named Mountain West Player of the Week on Sept. 15...Recorded a then-career-high six blocks against Florida International in the NCAA tournament...Made her collegiate debut in the Hilton Classic with 27 kills and nine blocks in the three matches vs. Arkansas, Denver and Eastern Washington...Tallied eight matches with 10 or more kills...Recorded seven matches with five or more blocks...In two matches recorded a hitting percentage over .500...Played in 29 of the team's 30 matches.

2007 (Redshirt): Redshirted her first year at Colorado State.

High School: Helped lead Dickinson (N.D.) High School to the West Region volleyball championship in 2005, and state championships in both 2005 and 2006...Was a three-time all-league and all-city performer, and a three-time all-state honoree...Received multiple individual team honors and holds the school record for stuff blocks in a season (135), and kills in a season (481)...Named Miss Volleyball in 2006...Was a three-sport athlete at Dickinson and three-sport varsity letterwinner...Garnered all-league, all-city, and all-state honors in basketball...Was a Miss Basketball finalist...Holds the school basketball record for career points (1,347)...Additionally, was a three-time high jump champion in track...Holds the school record for the high jump and triple jump...Was an All-American nominee in 2006...High school volleyball coach was Jay Schobinger.

Personal: Born on April 6, 1989, in Dickinson, N.D....Daughter of Dale and Janene Steffan...Has three brothers and one sister...Full name is Katelyn Rose Steffan...Is a family & consumer science major at CSU.