Nikki Gombar Class: Freshman Hometown: Rome High School: Marymount International School of Rome Height: 6-0 Position: OH Experience: HS

High School/Club Ball:

•As a freshman, was named All-Europe Outside Hitter and All-European First Team

•Is enrolled in the high level International Baccalaureate Program

•Worked part time at American Embassy in community relations and volunteered with fellow Marymount students on activities such as clothing drives for earthquake victims in L'Aquila, Italy, last summer

•Has played on the Italian National Youth Team for the past two years

•Twice placed second in Eight Nations Championships

•Selected to advance and play on Series B1 Regional Champion Club Team VolleyRo, Casal dei Pazzi

•Club team is No. 1in Lazio Region of Italy and have placed third and fourth in Italian National Regional Championships the past two years

Personal:

•Plans to major in Economics

•Brother attends Florida State, where he plays rugby

•Father played football and rowed at American International College in Massachusetts

•Mother played volleyball at Universita' di Varese in Italy

•Notes her best sports moment is being one of the players chosen to represent Italy on the Italian National Youth Team past two years

•Italian is her first language but also enjoys speaking Spanish and English