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ASU: Junior setter who took the brunt of the setting duties in the 2006 season as a redshirt freshman and helped to lead the Sun Devils to their first NCAA appearance since 2002...willresume the starting setter duties ...an athletic setter who is a high-energy player... was a standout prep athlete at Chandler High School...named to the 2006 All Pac-10 Freshman Team as well as the Pac-10 All-Academic Team...named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VIII second team and the Pac-10 All-Academic First Team as well in 2007.
2007 (Sophomore): Helped lead the team as the main setter all season leading Margie Giordano and Sarah Reaves to stellar a offensive season...was named to the Pac-10 All-Academic Team (first) for the second consecutive season as well as the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VIII second team...had 1,277 assists on the season, good for fifth in ASU single-season records...finished sixth in the Pac-10 in assists per-game with a 12.40 average...led the team in service aces with a career-high 24 on the season...had a career-high 73 assists against Utah Valley on September 8, which is the second-highest total in ASU rally scoring history...tied her match-high of three aces against Oregon on Oct. 26...had 194 digs on the year as well as 53 total blocks.
2006 (RS Freshman): Had a phenomenal debut season coming off of a redshirt season in 2005 to take the bulk of the setting duties...was named to the All Pac-10 Freshman Team as well as named to the Pac-10 All-Academic Team...played in 31 matches, starting 28 of them...had 1183 assists on the season, averaging 10.56 on the season, good for eighth all-time in ASU single-season assist totals...had a career-high 62 assists in a four-game match against Washington St. (10/20)...also claimed 22 service aces, collecting a career-high of three in four separate matches...had 174 digs on the year as well as 51 total blocks.
2005 (Freshman): Redshirt Season
High School: A 2004 graduate of Chandler High School in Chandler, Ariz... earned four varsity letter under head volleyball coach Darrin Ashment.. also played two years on the varsity basketball squad...captain of the volleyball team as a junior and senior... played club volleyball for Club Red Juniors (2002-05) and East Valley Juniors (1999-2001)... also played for the USA Volleyball/Arizona High Performance team in 2002... was part of six teams that were Arizona Region Champions on the club circuit... participated in the Club Nationals in 1999, 2001 and 2005 and the Open Nationals in 2002... as a freshman, earned honorable mention All-Region honors... named All-Region second team as a sophomore... was an All-State second-team selection, All-Region first-team and named team MVP as a junior... named All-City MVP, All-State, All-Region and repeated as team MVP as a senior... named an AIA Scholar Athlete and received several scholar-athlete awards and the Superintendent's Citizenship Award.
Personal: Majoring in Business Management... full name is Marina K Mercer... parents are Tom and Kathy Mercer of Chandler, Ariz... has one older sister (Laura)... her grandfather played basketball at St. Johns University... also enjoys playing basketball and golf... was an honor student in high school... born January 19, 1987 in Mesa, Ariz.
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