You Won't Believe How Tall is This Volleyball Player !!! Dana Lynn Rettke (born January 21, 1999) is an American professional volleyball player who currently plays for Vero Volley Monza in the Italian Serie A1 League. She played collegiate volleyball at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the first five-time AVCA First Team All American in collegiate history. Rettke was also a member of the U.S. national team and has won All-Big Ten honors in each of her five college seasons, was the 2019-20 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year and the 2021-2022 winner of the Honda Sports Award for women's volleyball.
As a junior in 2019, Rettke played in 32 of 34 matches with 30 starts, missing two matches due to a foot injury. Rettke had a team leading 3.75 kills per set, the fifth best in the Big Ten.[1] Rettke was part of a team that qualified for the Elite Eight round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament.[4] Rettke finished 2019 with her third consecutive All-Big Ten and first-team AVCA All-American honors and was the 2019-20 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year.[1][5] On December 18, 2021 Rettke helped lead the Badgers to its first ever NCAA National Championship and was named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament team.[6] On January 4, 2022, Rettke was named the Honda Sports Award volleyball winner as the nation's top collegiate female volleyball player.[7] In June 2022, Rettke won Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year award for the second time. With the honor, she became the first Big Ten student-athlete ever chosen Big Ten Athlete of the Year in non-consecutive seasons, and became the third two-time recipient of the Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year Award.
Rettke was part of the 2018 USA Volleyball Collegiate National Team.[1] In May 2019, Rettke was selected to the United States women's national volleyball team for the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League in Nanjing, China.[9] Competing in five matches, Rettke helped the U.S. win gold in the Nations League.[1] Then in August, Rettke competed with Team USA in the 2019 FIVB Women's Volleyball Intercontinental Olympic Qualification Tournament, in which Team USA qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Following her career at Wisconsin, she signed on to play professional volleyball with A1 Italian club team, Monza in 2022.
Dana Rettke
Personal information
Nationality American
Born January 21, 1999 (age 23)
Riverside, Illinois
Height 6 ft 8 in (2.04 m)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
College / University Wisconsin
Volleyball information
Position Middle blocker
Career
Years Teams
2017-2021 United States Wisconsin
2022- Italy Monza
National team
2019-present United States United States
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