Jenny Rood Class: Senior Hometown: Ada, Mich. High School: Rockford Height: 6-2 Position: M Birthdate: 04/06/1982 Experience: 3 VL

2002: Named to the NCAA West Regional all-Tournament team ... saw action as an outside hitter and middle, but was primarily a middle ... posted 10 kills and hit .500 against No. 1 USC in the NCAA regional semifinal ... match-high 13 kills while hitting .600 at Notre Dame in second round of NCAA Tournament (12/8) ... career-high 25 kills and season-best 13 digs at Illinois (11/22) for first double-double of the season ... 24 kills and hit .315 vs. Penn State (11/1) ... 22 kills vs. Wright State (9/7) ... hit .556 (13 K) against DePaul (9/7) ... hit .478 (13 -2 -23) vs. South Florida (9/14) ... pounded 14 kills and hit .600 vs. Indiana (10/5) ... 19 kills vs. Ohio State (10/4) and Wisconsin (10/19) ... hit .409 with 12 kills against Penn State (10/12) ... tallied 16 kills to hit .344 and tied career-high with four service aces vs. Michigan (10/30) ... 15 kills and eight blocks vs. Minnesota (11/16) ... posted double-digit kills in 25 of the 31 matches she played in ... 12th in kills (3.6) in the Big Ten ... second on the team in both kills (414, 3.6/game) and blocks (107, 28 solo, 79 assists) ... earned Academic All-Big Ten honors for the second consecutive year.

2001: One of three Spartans to play in all 105 games ... named to the Coca-Cola Spartan Inviational All-Tournament Team ... ranked third on the team in kills (290), hitting percentage (.286) and blocks (86) ... had 15 matches with double-digit kills ... had double-double with 15 kills and 13 digs Aug. 31 vs. Dayton ... had second double-double with 11 kills and 10 digs Oct. 30 vs. Ohio State ... had season-best 19 kills Sept. 7 vs. Winthrop ... pounded 15 kills Oct. 6 at Purdue ... averaged 2.76 kills per game, 1.19 digs per game and 0.82 blocks per game ... had season-high seven blocks Sept. 7 vs. Idaho ... had 11 kills and five blocks Nov. 24 vs. Indiana ... hit .444 vs. Illinois Nov. 23 with nine kills and only one error ... hit .667 at Indiana Oct. 12 (8-0-12) and added eight digs and five blocks ... had 10 kills and three blocks in NCAA Tournament first-round victory against Notre Dame ... named to the Academic All-Big Ten team.

2000: Earned her first varsity letter, playing in 26 matches with 20 starts at outside hitter ... had 10 double-doubles (kills-digs) on the season ... scored a career-high 21 kills vs. Illinois on Nov. 3 ... had double-figure kills in 15 matches, including seven in a row from Nov. 3-24 ... scored 15 or more kills in nine matches ... notched a career-high six blocks at Iowa ... finished fifth on the MSU freshman records list with 278 kills and 765 attempts ... also fourth on that list in kills per game (3.27) and attempts per game (9.00) and eighth in digs per game (2.45) ... hit .300 or better in five matches, including .378 (21-4-45) vs. Illinois on Nov. 3 and .424 (18-4-33) vs. Ohio State on Nov. 11 ... had double-figure digs in nine of the last 13 matches ... career-high 18 digs on three occasions ... hit double-figure kills in 14 of her last 16 matches.

High School: Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 ... 1999 Gatorade State Player of the Year ... four-year letterwinner and three-time MVP for MSU grad Linda Smith O'Malley at Rockford High School ... broke school career records for kills (1626) and blocks (421 - 255 solos, 166 assists) ... led team to a 149-97-6 record ... first-team all-conference and all-region as a sophomore, junior and senior ... first-team all-state in '99 ... honorable mention as a sophomore and second-team as a junior ... team won district championships in sophomore and senior seasons ... also earned four letters in track and field and three in basketball ... captained all three teams as a senior ... first-team all-conference and all-area North in basketball as a sophomore, junior and senior ... named honorable mention basketball all-state as a senior, and was team MVP ... set school records for rebounds and blocked shots ... track MVP as a sophomore and senior ... team won MITCA State Team Championship three straight years and was MSHAA State Champion in 2000 ... took second in the state in the high jump as a senior ... earned all-conference and all-area honors four-straight years ... earned all-state honors as a senior ... broke the Rockford high jump record (5-6) as a sophomore ... member of the National Honor Society ... O.K. Conference Scholar-Athlete and Athlete of the Year award ... Rockford HS Female Athlete of the Year as a senior.

Club Ball: Outside hitter for the Kalamazoo Dead Frogs 18-1, coached by Jack Magelssen ... also played for the Kentwood Volleyball Club 18's coached by Bud Cole.

Personal: Born Jennifer Estselle Rood on April 6, 1982 in Grand Rapids, Mich. ... daughter of Jerry and Frances Rood ... sister, Stacy, is a fifth-year senior volleyball player at the University of South Carolina at Aiken ... an English major.

Year	M	G	K	K/G	E	TA	Pct.	A	SA	SE	RE	Digs	D/G	BS	BA	TB	B/G	BE	BHE
2000	26	85	278	3.27	135	765	.187	16	11	47	30	208	2.45	10	37	47	0.55	6	1
2001	29	105	290	2.76	106	644	.284	16	16	40	17	125	1.19	14	72	86	0.82	7	0
2002	31	115	414	3.60	162	929	.271	10	29	61	8	98	0.85	28	79	107	0.93	17	2
Totals	86	305	982	3.22	403	2338	.248	42	56	148	55	431	1.41	52	188	240	0.79	30	3