Catherine Durakis           #2

5-7, Senior

Libero

Cresskill, NJ

Creskill High School

Cut Shot Volleyball Club

AT HOFSTRA

2005: Played 102 games in 27 matches...Recorded a team-high 467 digs on the year...Added 14 service aces and 30 assists...Ranked fifth in the Colonial Athletic Association in digs...Had 10 or more digs in 23 matches...Notched a school record-tying and career-high 41 digs against Delaware...Had 32 digs versus Towson...Served two aces at UC Riverside and George Mason...Received CAA Commissioner's Academic Award...2004: Played 102 games in 29 matches...Recorded 297 digs, 21 service aces, 21 assists and four kills on the season...Ranked third on the team in digs and aces...Had 14 matches with double-digit digs...Had a season-best 24 digs at Virginia Commonwealth...Served four aces versus Valparaiso and Sacred Heart...2003: Played 116 games in 30 matches...Contributed 324 digs, 19 assists, 11 service aces and three kills on the season...Ranked second on the team in digs...Had 18 matches with double-digit digs...Recorded 21 digs and two aces at Long Island University...Had 19 digs versus George Mason...Served four aces at Miami (OH).

BACKGROUND: Played four years of volleyball and two years of softball at Cresskill High School in Cresskill, New Jersey...Team was 88-15 during her four-year scholastic career, including a 27-4 mark as a senior...Helped lead the Cougars to a New Jersey Group I championship as a senior...Team was 2002 BCSL Olympic Division champions and finished third in the Newark Star Ledger New Jersey Top 20 and first in the Star Ledger Group I poll...First team All-New Jersey selection as a junior and senior...Three-time All-New Jersey Group I first team pick...Named to All-North Jersey, All-Bergen County and All-BCSL Olympic first teams as a senior...Was a first team all-conference selection as a sophomore and junior and a second team pick as a freshman...Cresskill Gatorade Player of the Year...Played in the NJSCA All-Star Classic...Recorded 489 kills, 454 digs, 477 assists and 357 aces during scholastic career.

PERSONAL: Has two sisters...Nickname is "Cat"...Physical education major.

Catching up with Catherine:

Favorites

            Movie: "The Notebook"

            Book: "The Da Vinci Code"

            Food: Greek salad

            Music: David Gray

            Athlete: Misty May

            Quote: "What this power is, I cannot say.  All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."  - Alexander Graham Bell      

Hobbies: shopping

What is something that very few people know about you? I like to read in my free time.

Do you have any pre-match rituals? Visualize the match while listening to music

What is your best memory with your Hofstra volleyball team?  Traveling to Puerto Rico

Why Hofstra?  Because of the volleyball program

CAREER HIGHS

Kills:                1, last at William & Mary (10-28-05)          

Assists:          5 vs. Delaware (11-6-05)    

Blocks:           None  

Aces:              4, last vs. Sacred Heart (9-14-04)  

Digs:               41 vs. Delaware (11-6-05)-school record

CAREER STATISTICS

Year        MP         GP           K          E           TA           PCT.        A           SA       BS      BA        DG

2003       30           116          3           5            23            -.087        19         11        0          0            324

2004       29           102          4           4            35            .000         21         21        0          0            297

2005       27           102          1           2            29            -.034        30         14        0          0            467

Career    86           320          8           11         87            -.034        70         46        0          0            1088