custom32Lnumber10positionDS/LhighschoolSt. Mary's HSfirst_nameKristenyearSeniorhometownLodi, CAheight5-7last_nameKalend<b>SOPHOMORE (2003):</b> Kalend saw action in 101 games as a sophomore, averaging 1.27 digs per game ... She matched her season high with 10 digs in the Tigers' three-game sweep of Cal State Fullerton on Nov. 8 ... Kristen also recorded 10 digs in the Tigers' three-game sweep of Cal Poly on Oct. 4 ... She collected a career-high four assists at Long Beach State on Sept. 26 ... Kristen recorded her first career kill in the Tigers' five-game victory over Idaho on Sept. 18 ... She recorded three service aces each in Pacific's victories over Penn and Radford at the Nike Invitational and picked up nine digs against No. 7 Pepperdine in the tournament's title match ... Kalend earned Pacific and Big West Conference Scholar-Athlete status for the 2003-04 academic year and was selected to the Big West Academic All-Conference Team.<b>FRESHMAN (2002):</b> Kalend appeared in 97 games as a freshman, averaging 1.52 digs per game ... She served up a career-high four aces at Stanford on Dec. 7 ... Kristen collected a career-high 12 digs at UC Irvine on Oct. 12 ... She recorded six digs against Murray State in her first career intercollegiate match on Aug. 30, at the Utah Classic ... Kalend led all Tiger freshmen with 147 digs on the season ... She established herself as an exemplary scholar-athlete by earning Pacific and Big West Conference Scholar-Athlete recognition ... She averaged 2.22 digs per game over her final nine matches (32 games) of the 2002 campaign.<b>HIGH SCHOOL/CLUB:</b> Kalend attended St. Mary's High School in Stockton ... She earned Stockton Record all-league and all-area honors and was named to the All-San Joaquin Athletic Association team as a senior ... Kristen led St. Mary's HS to a runner-up finish in the state championship her junior season, as well as the Division I NorCal championship ... She was the team captain for both her high school team and the Delta Valley 17 club team ... Her club team won the 18's Division championship at the Davis Festival.<b>PERSONAL:</b> Kristen is a speech-language pathology major in her third year at Pacific.<b>McHUGH ON KALEND:</b> "Kristen Kalend is entering her third year of competition. I think that she realizes now what she has to do to stay with the speed of the game. She had a couple of double-digit dig matches for us last season, and I look for more and more of that to happen."