Former Stanford student-athlete Karissa Cook returned to The Farm as an assistant for the beach volleyball team in September, 2015.
As a member of the Stanford women’s volleyball team, Cook was an All-Pac-12 Conference honorable mention as a Junior in 2011. She was also named Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention three times in her sophomore, junior and senior seasons. Cook ranks seventh all-time in assists with 3,027 and led the Cardinal in assists in the 2009 and 2011 seasons.
After graduating in 2013 with an engineering degree from the Stanford Product Design program, Cook joined the University of Hawaii beach volleyball team for her fifth year of athletic eligibility. She was named an AVCA All American in the 2014 season, taking second place in the national pairs championship and third in the national team championship. Cook graduated from UH in December of 2014 with a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering.