Indiana University Athletics
Spotlight on Erica Short
2/14/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - In the fall, Indiana head coach Katie Weismiller and the volleyball program announced that Laura Katherine de Lambert Holm (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles North), Jessica Langert (Downers Grove, Ill./Montini Catholic), Kari Morgenstein (Lincolnshire, Ill./Stevenson), Ashley Shaufler (Salem, Wis./Westosha Central), Erica Short (Orrville, Ohio/Orrville) and Emily Zulauf (Findlay, Ohio/Findlay) will attend IU beginning with the 2005-06 campaign.
In the coming weeks, we will spotlight each IU signee individually. The fifth Hoosier in the series is Short.
Short, a 6-2 middle blocker from Orrville, Ohio, paced Orrville High to the 2003 Division III state championship as well as a trio of conference crowns during her high school career. The highly-touted defender was ranked No. 34 on the 2004 Prep Volleyball Senior List and earned first-team honors on 13 different occasions from a variety of publications and organizations. Additionally, Short garnered player of the year awards from The Daily Record, the Akron Beacon Journal and at the state, district and conference levels. Short also demonstrated her athletic versatility as a four-year letterwinner and two-year captain on the basketball squad. Short not only invests her time in volleyball on the court. She also helps to instill the fundamentals of the game in younger players as a coach for her local Boys and Girls Club. Erica is the daughter of Lizz and Eric Short.
"Erica is known for her smile as much as she is known as the terminator," Weismiller said. "She is a physical presence on the court both in blocking and hitting. Erica has the ability to be a force on the outside or in the middle. She will be a house hold name in the Big Ten in the next few years!"
In the coming weeks, we will spotlight each IU signee individually. The fifth Hoosier in the series is Short.
Short, a 6-2 middle blocker from Orrville, Ohio, paced Orrville High to the 2003 Division III state championship as well as a trio of conference crowns during her high school career. The highly-touted defender was ranked No. 34 on the 2004 Prep Volleyball Senior List and earned first-team honors on 13 different occasions from a variety of publications and organizations. Additionally, Short garnered player of the year awards from The Daily Record, the Akron Beacon Journal and at the state, district and conference levels. Short also demonstrated her athletic versatility as a four-year letterwinner and two-year captain on the basketball squad. Short not only invests her time in volleyball on the court. She also helps to instill the fundamentals of the game in younger players as a coach for her local Boys and Girls Club. Erica is the daughter of Lizz and Eric Short.
"Erica is known for her smile as much as she is known as the terminator," Weismiller said. "She is a physical presence on the court both in blocking and hitting. Erica has the ability to be a force on the outside or in the middle. She will be a house hold name in the Big Ten in the next few years!"
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