Stephanie Knopp Class: Senior Hometown: Cupertino, Calif. High School: Monta Vista Height: 6-0 Position: DS Birthdate: 11/22/1981 Experience: 2 VL

2002: Played in 25 matches, including each of the last 14 ... eight digs against Notre Dame (12/8) and seven vs. George Mason (12/7) in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament ... career-high 11 digs vs. Penn State (11/1) ... two service aces vs. DePaul and Wright State (9/7) ... career-high seven kills and seven digs vs. Iowa (11/15) ... six kills and six digs vs. Minnesota (11/16) ... career-high five service aces at Purdue (11/23) ... had more service aces (13) than service errors (10) ... Academic All-Big Ten for the second consecutive year.

2001: Played in 16 matches and 53 games, primarily in the first half of the season ... collected 71 digs , including a career-high nine vs. Denver Sept. 1 ... had eight digs Sept. 7 vs. Winthrop, Oct. 3 at Michigan and Oct. 13 at Illinois ... recorded 16 service aces, including five vs. Denver ... her five aces vs. Denver was tied for the third best single-match total of the season for MSU ... only server on the team with more service aces than errors (14) ... also tallied six assists, three kills and one block ... named to the Academic All-Big Ten team as well as the Dean's List.

2000: Played in one match for the Spartans, against Rutgers ... tallied one dig.

High School: Four-year volleyball letterwinner for coach Dawn Hill at Monta Vista High School ... captained the team as a junior and senior ... named all-league in junior and senior years and honorable mention as a sophomore ... named the team's best passer in 1998 and 1999 and for best defense in 1998 ... Matadors were ranked eighth in the state in 1998 ... earned the Monta Vista purple and gold academic award.

Club Ball: Played for the City Beach Volleyball Club in Santa Clara, Calif., the Cosmos Volleyball Club in Los Altos, Calif., and the Vision Volleyall Club out of Cupertino, Calif. ... coached by Jason Mansfield at Cosmos and Vision ... City Beach and Cosmos both took fifth at Junior Nationals while her Vision team finished ninth.

Personal: Born Stephanie Knopp on November 22, 1981, in Santa Clara, Calif. ... daughter of John and Karen Knopp ... sister, Shannon, crewed for Southern California in 1995-96 and played volleyball for three years ... brother, Anthony, played three years (1997-99) on USC's volleyball team from 1997-99 ... majoring in elementary education.

Year	M	G	K	K/G	E	TA	Pct.	A	SA	SE	RE	Digs	D/G	BS	BA	TB	B/G	BE	BHE
2000	1	1	0	0.00	0	0	.000	0	0	0	1	1	1.00	0	0	0	0.00	0	0
2001	16	53	3	0.06	3	8	.000	6	16	14	10	71	1.34	0	1	1	0.02	0	0
2002	25	69	15	0.22	9	54	.111	2	13	10	8	99	1.43	0	1	1	0.01	0	0
Totals	42	133	18	0.15	12	62	.097	8	39	24	19	171	1.39	0	2	2	0.02	0	0