Pronounced: Ah-LEE-sha • Glass

Lion Career
2006 (Freshman): Big Ten All-Freshmen Team ... Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week (9/11) ... Big Ten Player of the Week (9/11) ... Texas Invitational All-Tournament Team ... Penn State Classic Most Valuable Player ... started all 35 matches and played in 113 of 114 games ... spent most of the season as a 5-1 setter, but also saw time as a 6-2 setter/hitter, attacking primarily on the right side ... led the team and finished seventh in the Big Ten with 12.50 assists per game ... also ranked third on the squad with 1.14 blocks per game and fourth with 21 service aces and 2.04 digs per game ... also chipped in 1.16 kills per game ... set the team to a Big Ten- and nation-best .323 hitting percentage, the only team in the country to finish the season hitting higher than .300 ... earned National Player of the Week honors after averaging 13.38 assists per game while leading the team to a .327 hitting percentage against Missouri and Texas at the Texas Invitational (9/7-8) ... dished out at least 17 assists in every match of the year, including a career-high 63 in the five-game thriller at Texas (9/8) ... recorded a personal-best nine kills in the season-opener against Nicholls State (8/25) while playing a 6-2 ... tallied eight kills in the 5-1 at Texas (9/8) ... hit for a career-high .714 percentage (5-0-7) against Lehigh (9/16) ... posted five double-doubles for the season ... recorded a career-high 17 digs at LSU (8/26) to go along with her 37 assists for her first career double-double ... had at least one dig in every match of the year and had five or more digs on 25 occasions ... recorded 129 total blocks for the year ... posted a career-best seven blocks three times, including the season-opener against Nicholls State (8/25), at Texas (9/8) and at Michigan State (11/17) ... tallied at least one block in 33 matches and had 30 multiple-block matches ... notched 14 matches of five or more stuffs ... also had at least one service ace in 16 contests, including a career-high three versus Tennessee State (9/15).

High School
Four-year letterwinner at Leland (Mich.) High School ... Michigan Gatorade Player of the Year ... led her squad to the 2006 Class D state championship, producing a single-match record of 48 kills in the title match ... named Miss Volleyball for the state of Michigan in 2006 ... four-time first team all-state, all-region dream team and all-conference ... is the National and State High School record holder in season aces (296), career aces (937) and career kills (3,584) ... during scholastic career attacked at a .440 clip while also contributing 1,816 digs and 680 blocks ... ranked sixth on PrepVolleyball.com's "Senior Aces" list ... was a member of the 2005 US Youth National A2 Team and played on the USA Red squad that won the gold medal at the HP Championships in Austin, Texas, where she also received the "Best Setter" award ... started on the 2004 USA Youth National Team that won the gold medal in Puerto Rico at the NORCECA Games, where she was recognized as "Best Server" ... a complete athlete, was also named first team all-state as a basketball player as a junior and senior ... was voted one of the top 25 players in the state by the Detroit Free Press ... member of the National Honor Society with a 3.7 grade point average.

Personal
Born Alisha Rebecca Glass on April 5, 1988 ... mother is Laurie Glass, who was also her high school volleyball coach ... grandfather Larry Glass was her high school basketball coach ... enrolled in the College of Health and Human Development ... names favorite book as "Man In The Middle," favorite movie as "Love & Basketball," favorite entertainer as Tyler Perry, favorite place to visit as her grandparent's house, favorite food as any kind of pasta, favorite actor as Denzel Washington and favorite actress as Sanaa Lathan ... nickname is Leash.

Quoting Russ Rose
"I thought Alisha did a solid job last season coming in and setting as a freshman. I was disappointed in the conference awards though, as it's been a long time in the Big Ten Conference that the 5-1 setter for the team that won the league championship didn't get recognized as an all-conference performer. She maybe flew in under the radar screen because she wasn't a trained setter when she came in, but I thought she made great strides. She's as good a blocker as any setter in the country, and as she develops a better understanding of setting at the highest level and gains a better feel for the demands of the game, she'll continue to excel. Leading a team is tough on a freshman and it takes years to develop the feel for this task, but I'm confident that we'll see a better and more relaxed player this season."

Glass' Expectations
"A trip to the final four in hopes of a National Championship is definitely out on the table. In order to put ourselves in the best position possible to make it there, I hope that this season we focus on our weaknesses, as well as our strengths, so that the potential we have turns into reality, and we can become a better team on a more consistent level."