| Bridget Fonke |
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Sophomore
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| Hometown:
St. Louis, Mo.
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| High School:
St. Joseph's
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| Height:
6-1
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| Position:
OH
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2007 • SOPHOMORE
Had a breakout season after moving from the middle to the outside en route to earning A-10 Second Team accolades ... named A-10 Co-Player of the Week on Aug. 27 and Sept. 4 ... selected to LSU's Mizuno Tiger Classic All-Tournament team, Bradley's Radisson Hotel Invitational Al-Tournament team and SLU's Santo Bento Volleyball Invitational All-Tournament team ... finished the season as the A-10 leader in service aces per game with 0.57 ... ranked second in the A-10 in points per game with 5.06, fourth with 4.21 kills per game and ninth with a .286 hitting percentage ... led the Billikens with 459 kills, which ranks 14th on SLU's single season chart ... her 62 service aces rank 10th on the single-season list ... ranked 21st among all Division I players with 0.57 aces per game ... registered double-digit kills in the first 20 matches of the season ... missed double-digit kills in just two of SLU's 30 matches ... had six 20-kill matches ... hit better than .400 in nine matches ... was the match kill leader (for both SLU and its opponents) in 10 matches near the beginning of the season ... posted a career and team season-best six service aces in the Western Illinois match ... collected the first double-double of her career with 17 kills and 12 digs at Bradley ... narrowly missed her second double-double the very next day with a career and team season-high 28 kills and nine digs against Montana ... nearly registered a double-double in the season finale against Xavier with 15 kills and nine digs ... hit a career-high .556 with 17 kill in a win over Drake ... hit .404 with 25 kills, five digs and four blocks against #23 LSU ... recorded a match-high four service aces along with 10 kills and five digs in SLU's A-10 Championship opening-round win over GW ... posted a match-best 13 kills in the win at Rhode Island ... led all players with 19 kills in SLU's regular-season win over Xavier ... tied for match-high honors with 14 kills in the Bilikens' win at La Salle ... collected a match-high 17 kills in the Fordham win ... earned match-high accolades with 17 kills and a career-best .556 hitting percentage in a win over Drake ... led all players with 17 kills in the Western Michigan match ... was the only player with double-digit kills for either team in SLU's season opener.
2006 • FRESHMAN
Added four kills, two blocks and a dig to the effort at Duquesne ... notched two kills on only four attempts and added one dig against Duquesne ... contributed two kills and a dig against Rhode Island ... earned her first career start against La Salle and responded with a season-high seven kills while adding two digs, one block and one ace ... put down five kills on only eight attempts with two blocks against Oakland ... made her first collegiate appearance against Illinois-Chicago.
AT ST. JOSEPH'S
Was a first-team All-State and St. Louis Post-Dispatch second-team All-Metro selection as a senior ... helped the Angels to a 29-9-1 record and the Missouri Class 4 championship match ... finished her career with 587 kills, 191 blocks and 175 digs while hitting .298 ... helped team to two second-place finishes at state and to the final four as a sophomore ... was a second-team All-State selection in 2004 ... two-time All-Region choice ... tabbed first-team All-Conference three times ... named to PrepVolleyball.com Dream Team and was selected as a Top 70 recruit in 2006 ... played three times at the Junior Olympic Nationals, including two top-five finishes in the open division ... earned four swimming letters and helped her team win three conference titles ... three-time All-State swimmer ... played one season of basketball.
PERSONAL
Born Sept. 19, 1987, in St. Louis ... daughter of Peggy and John Fonke ... has a younger brother, Robbie ... father played basketball and golf at Illinois College ... mother was a competitive gymnast for the American Academy of Gymnastics in Chicago and is a SLU graduate ... grandfather, Bob Mosher, played football and baseball for SLU and is in the Billiken Hall of Fame ... majoring in business administration.
