2010: Team captain.
2009: CAC All-Academic Team ... CAC Player ofthe Week ... saw action in 119 sets and 31 matches ... third in CACwith team-best assist average (9.45) ... second on team inservice aces (37) and aces/set (0.31) ... fourth in digs (248)and digs/set (2.08) ... notched six matches with 50+ assists,including career-high 60 in five-set win over Bridgewater (Va.) ...season-best four aces twice ... season-high 18 digs twice.
2008: Averaged 1.31 kills per set, playing in83 sets and 31 matches ... tallied 106 digs for a 1.28 average ...matched her career-high of 10 kills in a five-game loss to CarnegieMellon ... notched a season-high 14 digs in a 3-1 loss at No. 18Haverford ... served up a career-best seven aces in a sweep ofRutgers-Newark.
2007: Stepped on the court for 77 games and 31matches ... registered 93 kills (1.41 per game) ... career-highs of20 digs and 10 kills in 3-0 sweep of Roanoke ... notched 34 serviceaces with a season-best six in a 3-0 sweep of EasternMennonite.
Sherwood HS: 2007 graduate ... two-sportathlete (volleyball, softball) ...VOLLEYBALL: three-time All-MontgomeryGazette selection, including a first team nod as asenior ... second team All-Met in 2006 ... 81 kills, 36 digs,10 aces as a senior ... SOFTBALL: four-timeAll-Gazette and two-time All-Met at catcher ... batted.475, scored 25 runs, and had 25 RBI as a senior.
Personal: Katie Renee Obal ... educationminor ... Dean's List (F '09, Sp '10) ... born October 20,1989 in Olney, Md. ... daughter of David Obal and Karen Roberts ...her father was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the ninth roundof the 1973 MLB Draft ... her older brother, Kyle, wasa catcher for the Temple Owls baseball team.
Why St. Mary's?: "Because of volleyball and theschool's good reputation."
