Christa harmotto biography

American volleyball player (born 1986)

Christa Deanne Harmotto Dietzen (born Oct 12, 1986) is an Denizen former professional volleyball player who played as a middle medication for the United States women's national volleyball team. She worked college volleyball for the Friend State women's volleyball team, post won back to back municipal championships in 2007 and 2008.

Harmotto won gold with depiction national team at the 2014 World Championship, silver at honourableness 2012 London Summer Olympics, with the addition of bronze at the 2015 Imitation Cup and 2016 Rio Athletics Games.^[1]

High school and early life

Christa Harmotto was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania and attended Hopewell Towering School in Aliquippa, where she was a three-year letterwinner access volleyball and two-year letterwinner connect basketball.^[2]

As a high school superior in 2004, she was baptized the Pennsylvania State Gatorade Actor of the Year and was also an All-American.

She was a member of the 2004 USA Women's Junior National Livery that won the NORCECA Aid in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada topmost was also selected to blue blood the gentry 2005 USA Junior National Line-up that competed in Ankara, Poultry, at the FIVB Under-20 Earth Championships.

She set a institution record 183 blocks in round out junior year at Hopewell last in 2004–05 as a recognizable she set a school compose for hitting percentage at .595.

She led Hopewell to shipshape and bristol fashion No. 1 Pennsylvania ranking most recent also helped her squad on two legs a 59–0 record against WPIAL opponents. She played club volleyball for Pittsburgh Renaissance that unmitigated for the Junior Olympics. Harmotto was considered a top 15 recruit for the class fence 2005.

Penn State

Harmotto is unembellished middle hitter and her kills are fast and hard stop at defend, which is why she had a .492 hitting share in 2007 and led birth nation in hitting percentage perform most of the season wrench 2008 with a .486 relation.

She is also known considerably one of the nations crest blockers, as she had Cardinal blocks in 2007 and 166 in 2008.

Harmotto is be over education major and was christened ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American of the Year in 2008. She has also been called Academic All-Big Ten in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

She says her goals after her Quaker State career is over legal action to play internationally and add up to to the Olympics.^[3][4]

2005 (Freshman)

She harden the Penn State record rationalize blocks in a four-game mate with 13 versus Southern Calif., and also led the crew in blocking with 1.50 blocks per game.

She recorded follow least six kills in 28 of 29 matches she pompous in. Harmotto was on squeeze up way to becoming a cap or second team All-American earlier she tore her ACL inconsequential the last home match waste the Big Ten, thereby absent every NCAA match.^[5] Despite integrity season-ending injury, she was first name an AVCA Honorable Mention All-American for her efforts and handouts in the regular season.

2006 (Sophomore)

Harmotto recovered from her impairment, and posted an impressive intermediate campaign. She played in 111 of 114 games that description Nittany Lions played and rank first on the team lead to blocks per game (1.58), following on the squad in striking percentage (.405) and third evolve the team in kills filling game (2.85).

Her average prime 1.58 blocks per game ranks tied for 10th on Quaker State's all-time single-season record slope, equaling Terri Zemaitis' 1997 categorize. She had a career lofty 17 kills on .483 interfering in the win versus Minnesota en route to being first name the conference player of authority week.

She helped Penn Repair to the NCAA Regional Terminal.

2007 (Junior)

As a junior, Harmotto had one of the about nationally recognized performances of depiction year. She was named honesty Big Ten Player of rank Year,^[6] was an AVCA Final team All-American, was a Honda Award nominee for volleyball significance the top player in glory country, and was considered capital frontrunner for the National Thespian of the Year.

She pretended in 121 of Penn State's 122 games of the epoch and started all 36 matches. She finished the year strip off 375 kills on .492 intervention percentage, a percentage which ranks among the top five nondescript NCAA history and also grade first in the conference favour second nationally. She had Cardinal blocks on the year meticulous averaged 1.65 blocks per sport, which tied for fifth fasten the nation and was in a short while on the team.

She superlative her career high of 17 kills with no errors dealings hit .444 against Wisconsin. She helped her squad to efficient 20–0 Big Ten record remarkable a 34–2 record overall.

In NCAA play and helping deduct team win the 2007 NCAA national championship against top pit Stanford, she was named sort out the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team after having 14 kills and hitting .435 in ethics championship match.

2008 (Senior)

Harmotto locked away an impressive senior year, outdo the nation in hitting correspondence from Sep 21 until righteousness end of the season acquire December. She ended the yr with a .486 percentage eradicate 275 total kills.

She also had 166 blocks for the season and terminated the year third in class nation in blocks per allot (1.47). Harmotto repeated as arrive AVCA First Team All-American have a word with earned her second consecutive Honda Award nomination.

She helped Friend State to their second uninterrupted 20–0 Big Ten season, penniless dropping a single set hurt any teams.

In the 2008 NCAA Tournament, she was known as to the NCAA University Locum Regional All-Tournament Team after portion her team advance to depiction NCAA Final Four after general Western Michigan and California.

In the National Semifinals against Nebraska, Harmotto had 7 kills folk tale 4 blocks. In the NCAA national championship against Stanford, Harmotto had 8 kills and 6 blocks to help Penn Reestablish to a 38–0 record favour claimed their second consecutive NCAA Championship.

Harmotto ended her being with a .433 career striking percentage – second best withdraw NCAA history.

National team

Harmotto was selected to the U.S. Ceremonial Team roster that traveled drive Cairo, Egypt in April 2009. The U.S. team played team a few matches against the Egypt Racial Team.^[7] In the first peer against Egypt, which USA won 3–1, Harmotto had a crew high 18 points, including 16 kills with a 64 sympathetic percent and .560 attack efficiency.^[8][9]

In May 2009, Harmotto began covenant train with the U.S.

Practice Team. She participated in dignity 2009 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Jug in July, the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix in Respected and the 2009 Final Quartet Intercontinental Cup in Lima, Peru in September. At the Valedictory Four Cup, Harmotto was entrant in all five matches. She averaged 0.95 blocks per exchange letters, totaled 19 blocks in fivesome matches and was named integrity tournament's "Best Blocker".^[10] She helped Team USA to the money medal match, where they strayed to World No.

1 Brasil in four sets.

Harmotto was part of the USA resolute team that won the 2014 World Championship gold medal as the team defeated China 3-1 in the final match.^[11][12]

Awards

National team

College

High school

• Two time Prepvolleyball.com All-American (2004–05)
• Two time Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Athlete personage the Week
• Two time Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Athlete of the Week
• Two at a rate of knots first team all-state, all-WPIAL delighted all-section
• 2005 Mizuno First Team All-American
• 2005 Pennsylvania State Gatorade Player provide the Year
• 2005 Prepvolleyball.com National Older Player of the Year finalist
• 2005 Dapper Dan High School Motherly Athlete of the Year
• 2005 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Female High School Harrier of the Year
• 2005 Beaver District Times Female Athlete of position Year
• 2005 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Female Messenger offshoot of the Year
• 2005 Volleyball Magazine "Fab 50"

See also

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