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Should make the move back to middle blocker after spending most of last season as an outside hitter ...Has the potential to be an excellent middle blocker with her size and quickness...Looking for more consistency in her game to match the flashes of brilliance she has shown in her first three seasons on The Farm ...Good footwork and excellent at terminating the volleyball...Played her best volleyball of the '00 season during the NCAA Tournament, including a career-high 25-kill performance in second round loss to UC-Santa Barbara.
As a Junior in 2000 - 
Made 18 starts in 29 matches played ... Second on the squad with 294 kills ... Averaged 2.97 kills, 1.69 digs and 0.85 blocks ... Notched 24 kills and 26 digs vs. Washington State (10/6) ... All-Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention selection ... Tallied double figures in kills in 13 matches this season ... Had four double-doubles (kills-digs) on the year ... Had 14 kills and nine blocks vs. BYU (9/8) ... Had tallied double figures in kills in four out of the last six matches ... Hit .560 (17-3-25) vs. Oregon State (11/17) ... Had 17 kills and 15 digs vs. Washington (11/2) ... Her 84 blocks ranked second on the team ... had 167 digs, sixth on the squad ... Had 15 service aces on the year (0.15) ... Her 17 blocks solos ranked second on the team ... hit .221 on the year ... Her 2.97 kpg ranked second among her teammates ... notched a career high 25 kills vs. UCSB (12.1) ... Had 25 kills, 14 digs and six blocks in the Cardinal?s second round loss to the Gauchos ... Recorded seven kills and four blocks against Loyola Marymount (11/30).
As a Sophomore in 1999 - Honorable Mention All Pac-10 ... Shared time with Sara Sandrik as a starting middle blocker opposite Jennifer Detmer ... Named to NCAA Pacific Regional All-Tournament Team ... Ranked third on the team and in the Pac-10 with a 1.32 block per game average, totaling 119 blocks...Also finished fourth on the club with 2.53 kills per game and was efficient with a .321 attack percentage...Big matches included a career-high-tying 15-kill performance at Louisiana State (9/8), as well as a career-high 13-block effort at Arizona State (11/12) that was the highest block total by a Stanford player in a single match during the 1999 season...Posted eight double-figure kill matches, including a double-double (kill-block) with 13 blocks and 11 kills at Arizona State (11/12)...Hit .500 or better on seven occasions...Appeared in 31 of the team's 34 matches with 17 starts.
As a Freshman in 1998 - Reserve middle blocker ... Appeared in 29 of 31 matches ... Notched 149 kills and a .324 hitting percentage ... Tied a career-high with 15 kills and added a .591 hitting percentage in a win over Notre Dame in the second round of the NCAA Tournament (12/5) ... Initially set that career-high of 15 kills in the season opener at No. 10 UC Santa Barbara (9/1) ... Posted a career-high 11 blocks at Colorado in the PowerBar Invitational (9/12) ... Posted five or more digs on five occasions, including nine in that same Colorado match ... Hit .500 or better in eight of the 16 matches in which she recorded five kills or more.
National Competition - Alternate on the 1996 U.S. Junior National Team.
Prep - Named to the 1997 Student Sports Magazine All-American Team ... First Team CIF Southern Section in 1997 (Second Team in 1996) ... Named Daily Breeze First Team All-Area in 1997 ... Two-time Most Outstanding Player of the Bay League ... Selected as a "feature player" by both the Los Angeles Times (10/23/97) and Student Sports Magazine (10/97)...Twice named Torrance SportsDesk Cable Athlete of the Week as a senior ... Three-year varsity starter and two-time team MVP ... Helped lead West High School to two Bay League championships ... Two-time winner of the West High School "Excellence in Athletics" Award ... Also played two years of softball and one year of soccer as a prep ... California Scholarship Federation Sealbearer ... Four-year member of the West High School Honor Roll ... Played for Mike Marconi as a prep and for the South Bay Volleyball Club.
Personal - American Studies major ... Born April 25, 1980 ... Daughter of Peb and Kathleen Conrad ... Cousin, Ron Redell, was a four-year Stanford football letterman from 1989-92 ... Uncle, Bill Conrad, played baseball at Santa Clara from 1982-83.
Tara Conrad Career Highs
- Kills: 25, at UC Santa Barbara, 12/1/00
- Aces: 4, at Oregon, 10/29/99
- Digs: 26, vs. Washington State, 10/6/00
- Blocks: 13, at Arizona State, 11/12/99
- Assists: 2, five times, last at Washington, 11/2/00
Tara Conrad Career Post-Season Statistics
Year G K KPG E TA PCT A APG SA SE SAPG RE DIG DPG BS BA TOT BPG BE BHE 1998 7 17 2.43 7 35 .286 1 .14 4 4 .57 0 10 1.42 0 10 10 1.42 2 0 1999 18 47 2.61 15 92 .348 3 .17 5 9 .28 0 17 .94 2 23 25 1.39 0 1 2000 8 32 4.00 8 68 .353 1 .13 0 5 .00 2 18 2.25 2 8 10 1.25 0 0 Totals 33 96 2.91 30 195 .313 5 .15 9 18 .27 2 45 1.36 4 41 45 1.36 2 1 Tara Conrad Career Statistics
Year G K KPG E TA PCT A APG SA SE SAPG RE DIG DPG BS BA TOT BPG BE BHE 1998 58 149 2.57 53 296 .324 11 .19 9 18 .16 1 68 1.17 4 65 69 1.19 14 3 1999 90 228 2.53 76 473 .321 10 .11 25 28 .28 2 52 .58 10 109 119 1.32 12 2 2000 99 294 2.97 135 721 .221 14 .14 15 47 .15 11 167 1.69 17 67 84 0.85 8 4 Totals 247 671 2.72 264 1490 .273 35 .14 49 93 .20 14 287 1.16 31 241 272 1.10 34 9