Mattoon: Swam for the Mattoon YMCA Club team ... a three-year letterwinner in softball and track ... served as team captain for both sports as a senior ... was a state qualifier in tennis as a junior and senior ... named all-conference in softball as a junior ... an all-conference Scholar-Athlete all four years ... her club team finished second at nationals out of 103 teams ... played two weeks of softball on a world traveling team.

Personal: Majoring in biological sciences ... earned a Provost Scholarship for academics from SIU ... graduated with a 4.0 GPA ... finished fourth out of 267 in her class ... a member of the National Honor Society ... earned a Women in Science Award and an Exchange Club Scholarship ... volunteered for Special Olympics ... earned the GE Award for the highest noted science student ... earned a Rotary Club, National Bank and Booster Club Scholarship ... competed in the SIUC Science and Engineering Symposium and the World Youth Science and Engineering Competition ... earned the Merit Award for her ACT score and GPA ... has two sisters, Katherine and Jennifer, who swims for SIU ... daughter of Kim and Steve Janssen ... born on August 13, 1985 in Mattoon, Ill.