| Laryssa Goncalves #4 |
| Libero |
| Height: 5-4 |
| Senior |
| Colegio Dom Bosco |
| Curitiba, Brazil |
General: Enters 2008 with 1,391 career digs, good for fourth on Rams’ all-time list...Durable player who appeared in every game of the 2006 and 2007 seasons... Physically strong player and student of the game... Incumbent starter at libero.
2007 (Junior): Third Team All-CAA Selection... Collected 673 digs, second most in school history... Averaged 5.18 digs per game, third best in the CAA, as well as third-best on school’s all-time list... Topped 20 digs in a match 13 times and 30 on three occasions... Also registered 29 service aces... Dug 31 balls in dramatic, 3-2 win over William & Mary (Nov. 2)... Recorded career-high 38 digs in victory over Radford (Oct. 30)... Turned in 29 digs, four assists and one ace at William & Mary (Sept. 26)... Booked 28 digs, three assists and two aces in heartbreaking 3-2 loss to 24th-ranked St. John’s (Sept. 7)... Had 11 digs against eventual National Champion Penn State (Sept. 7)... Logged 34 digs in season-opener at Virginia Tech (Aug. 24).
2006 (Sophomore): Played in all 129 games, leading the team while ranking seventh in the CAA in digs (553) and digs per game (4.29)... Digs total ranks sixth in school history for a single season... Also fired 14 service aces... Topped 20 digs in nine matches... Averaged 4.83 digs per game in three CAA Tournament matches (Nov. 17-19)... Had 26 digs in four-game upset of third-seeded Towson in opening round of CAA Tournament (Nov. 17)... Recorded career-high 27 digs on two occasions, versus Towson (Oct. 7) and at Delaware (Nov. 11). Also registered career-high six assists in the aforementioned Towson match... Had 23 digs and three assists against Georgia State (Oct. 13)... Collected 20 digs in just three games in a sweep of Gardner-Webb (Aug. 25).
2005 (Freshman): Appeared in 30 matches and 89 games in first season... Logged 165 digs, an average of 1.85 per game... Recorded three matches with 10-plus digs... Dug a personal-best 20 balls and added two aces during a victory over UNC Greensboro (Sept. 3)... Collected 14 digs and a kill in a five-game win over Georgia State in the first round of the CAA Tournament (Nov. 18)... Produced 12 digs and an assist in the Rams’ victory over Towson in the CAA Championship match (Nov. 20)... Accounted for eight digs in NCAA Tournament First Round match versus Purdue (Dec. 2).
Personal: Played for the Parana All-State team from 2000-03 ... team won the National Tournament in 2002, as well as runner-up in 2000 and third place in 2003 ... team captured Brazilian Youth Games Championship in 2000 ... Also played for Parana Clube from 1996-2003, the top program in the state of Parana ... team won six state championships ... majoring in business ... daughter of Gerson Antonio Goncalves and Solange Cristina Preussler ... born January 7, 1985. |