Stanford Athletics

Merete Lutz: My Tall Tale

Career Honors

• Three-time AVCA All-America second team (2014, 2015 & 2017)
• AVCA All-America third team (2016)
• Two-time Volleyball Magazine All-America third team (2014 & 2015)
• VolleyballMag.com All-America third team (2017)
• Four-time AVCA All-Pacific North Region (2014-17)
• Four-time All-Pac-12 Conference (2014-17)
• All-Pac-12 Freshman Team (2014)
• Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (Nov. 6, 2017)
• Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 26, 2015)
• Two-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (Oct. 6, 2014 & Oct. 27, 2014)
• NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team (2017)
• Stanford Invitational All-Tournament Team (2014)
• USD Invitational All-Tournament Team (2014)
• Four-time Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (2014-17)

As a Redshirt Senior (2017)

• AVCA All-America second team
• VolleyballMag.com All-America third team
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team
• Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week (Nov. 6)
• Recorded her 1,000th career kill versus Arizona State (Sept. 27) becoming just the 18th Cardinal player since 1986 to do so
• Ranks seventh all-time in program history in career blocks (503)
• 17 kills while playing middle at No. 25 Colorado (Sept. 25)
• Season-best seven blocks at No. 12 UCLA (Oct. 13)
• Season-high .688 hitting percentage (13-2-16) against No. 16 Oregon (Nov. 5)
• Eight kills and tied her season-high with seven blocks in a sweep over No. 14 USC (Nov. 15)
• Career-high 21 kills on .476 hitting in a five-set win over No. 18 UCLA (Nov. 16)
• Hit .560 with 16 kills and registered her 500th career block vs. No. 11 Wisconsin (Dec. 8)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Redshirt Junior (2016) • National Champions

• AVCA All-America Third Team
• VolleyballMag.com All-America honorable mention
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• Preseason All-Pac-12 Conference
• Started at opposite after playing middle as a freshman and sophomore
• Tied her career-high with 10 blocks in the season opener against San Diego (Aug. 26)
• Recorded a season-high 17 kills on .429 hitting and five blocks against Cal Poly (Sept. 11)
• Notched 11 kills and six blocks at No. 17 Washington State (Sept. 30)
• Led the team with 13 kills and nine blocks against Utah (Oct. 9)
• Hit a season-best .562 (9-0-16) in a sweep over Arizona State (Oct. 15)
• Had a match-high 12 kills on a season-best .706 attack percentage with five blocks in a sweep at No. 25 USC (Oct. 23)
• 13 kills on .478 hitting and a career-high five digs against No. 13 UCLA (Nov. 12)
• Recorded 12 kills on .321 hitting and three blocks in the regional final win at No. 3 Wisconsin (Dec. 10)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Redshirt Sophomore (2015)

• AVCA All-America second team
• Volleyball Magazine All-America third team
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 26)
• Preseason All-Pac-12 Conference
• Career hitting percentage (.412) is the third-best mark in program history
• Ranked fourth in the conference with a .388 attack percentage, sixth with 1.24 blocks and 10th with 3.94 points
• Registered double-digit kills in 20 matches
• Recorded 19 kills on a .531 attack percentage in her season debut versus No. 6 Illinois (Sept. 4)
• Posted 15 kills and four blocks in a five-set win at Duke (Sept. 11)
• Tallied seven blocks, including three solo, in a sweep over No. 24 Pacific (Sept. 18)
• Registered a season-high 20 kills on .450 hitting to go with a season-best eight blocks at No. 14 Arizona (Sept. 30)
• Went 15-0-28, hitting .536, and had five blocks in a win over No. 25 Oregon (Oct. 11)
• Notched 13 kills and seven blocks in a win over No. 4 Washington (Oct. 21)
• Hit a season-high .647 (12-1-17) in a sweep at Oregon State (Nov. 8)
• Led the team with a .464 hitting percentage (16-3-28) and six blocks in a win at Washington State (Nov. 15)
• Went 13-1-19, hitting .632 and posted seven blocks in a win over Colorado (Nov. 19)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Redshirt Freshman (2014) 

• AVCA All-America second team
• Volleyball Magazine All-America third team
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• All-Pac-12 Freshman Team
• Two-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (Oct. 6 & Oct. 27)
• Stanford Invitational All-Tournament Team
• USD Invitatational All-Tournament Team
• Led the Pac-12 and was third in the nation in hitting percentage (.441), which is the third-best in a single season at Stanford
• Made her collegiate debut at Nebraska (Aug. 31)
• Totaled nine kills and six blocks in a win over No. 9 Illinois (Sept. 7)
• Tallied 15 kills and six blocks at No. 19 San Diego (Sept. 18)
• Hit a career-high .714 (11-1-14) in a sweep over Oregon State (Oct. 4)
• Recorded 10 kills, six blocks and set a career-best with six assists at No. 16 Arizona (Oct. 10)
• Finished with 12 kills on a .417 hitting percentage and six blocks at Utah (Oct. 19)
• Registered her first career double-double with 12 kills and a career-high 10 blocks against No. 17 UCLA (Oct. 24)
• Hit .688 with 23 kills and just one error in sweeps at No. 21 USC (Nov. 12) and No. 18 UCLA (Nov. 13)
• Had eight kills on .467 hitting and nine blocks in her NCAA Tournament debut against CSU Bakersfield (Dec. 5)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Freshman (2013)

• Redshirted her first season on The Farm

High School

• A 2013 graduate of Mirabeau B. Lamar High School in Houston, Texas
• A two-year letterwinner, only competing for her high school team as a freshman and sophomore
• Team advanced to district playoffs in 2009 and 2010
• Earned all-district honors as a freshman and sophomore

Club Competition

• Played for Southwest Junior
• Captained her team during her senior year
• Team qualified for Junior Nationals in 2011 and 2013

National Team Experience

• Member of the bronze medal winning squad at the NORCECA Championships in Managua, Nicaragua in 2012
• Won gold at the High Performance Championships in Des Moines, Iowa in 2012
• Also played on the 2013 U.S. Junior National Team which competed at the Junior World Championships in Brno, Czech Republic in 2013

Personal

• Daughter of Michael Lutz and Lisa Gertsch, who both graduated from Stanford
• Has an older brother, Karsten, who was a member of the Stanford men’s rowing team
• Major is human biology
• Born in Dallas, Texas
• Full name is Merete Suzanne Gertsch Lutz

Career Highs