Manouk Vernij Class: Junior Hometown: Bleiswijk, Netherlands High School: Erasmus College Zoetermeer Position: Forward

2009: A Second Team NFHCA West Region and All-Big Ten selection who competed in all 22 games for the Spartans, starting 21 ... Selected to the womensfieldhockey.com All Rookie Squad ... A three-time Big Ten Freshman of the Week selection (9/7, 9/14, 9/28) ... Finished the season with 36 points on 11 goals and a team-leading 14 assists ... Finished Big Ten regular season play as the conferences' assist leader ... Registered an assist in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals against Virginia ... Recorded a goal and two assists in NCAA Tournament first-round action against Delaware ... Scored two goals and added an assist in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals against Iowa ... Scored a goal and assisted on the game-winner vs. Maine ... Tallied an MSU record-tying four assists in a 5-2 victory over Northwestern ... Recorded two goals vs. Old Dominion ... Recorded a hat trick in her first collegiate game vs. Delaware.

Prior to MSU: Started playing hockey at the age of six ... Played her first five years of hockey at Hockey Club Bleiswijk ... Played her first three years of hockey on a boys team because there was not a girls team in her age category ... Competed for Hockey Club Rotterdam from 2003-09 ... A member of the U16 Junior National Team Program - District Zuid-Holland in 2006-07 ... Part of the Development Squad for the U18 Dutch National Women's Team ... A two-time U18 Dutch National Women's Team selection ... Led her squads to National Field Hockey championships in 2005, 06 and 07 with a runner-up finish in 2008 ... Led her squad to the 2005 National Field Hockey Indoor Championship with a runner-up finish in 2008 ... Helped the U18 Dutch National Women's Team capture the Four Nations and European Championship Tournaments in 2009.