Lauren Dembkowski

Outside Hitter
Sophomore
5-9, Mount Prospect, Ill. (Arlington Heights-Hersey)

2008:  Named second-team All-CCIW with a .208 attack percentage and 2.17 kills per game…played in 34-of-37 matches and made 33 starts…collected 10 or more kills on 10 occasions, including a season-high 12 kills on four occasions.

High School:  Named Champaign News-Gazette honorable mention all-state her senior year…named All-Mid-Suburban League three-straight years, MSL East “Player of the Year” in 2007 and a three-time Daily Herald all-area pick…played on three regional-championship teams…her freshman-year team advanced to the Illinois High School Association “elite eight”…her sophomore-year squad won a league title…coached by Nancy Lill…two-year member of the track and field team…National Honor Society member, Foreign Language Honor Society member and high honors student.

Personal:  Social science major…named twice to the Carthage dean’s list and named to the fall 2008 Carthage athletic director’s honor roll…born March 12, 1990.