As a Redshirt Freshman (2014) | Match-By-Match Statistics

• AVCA All-America second team
• Volleyball Magazine All-America third team
• AVCA All-Pacific North Region
• All-Pac-12 Conference
• All-Pac-12 Freshman Team
• Two-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (10/6 & 10/27)
• Stanford Invitational All-Tournament Team
• USD Invitatational All-Tournament Team
• Led the Pac-12 and was third in the nation in hitting percentage (.441), which is the third-best in a single season at Stanford
• Made her collegiate debut at Nebraska (8/31)
• Totaled nine kills and six blocks in a win over No. 9 Illinois (9/7)
• Tallied a career high 15 kills and six blocks at No. 19 San Diego (9/18)
• Hit a career high .714 (11-1-14) in a sweep over Oregon State (10/4)
• Recorded 10 kills, six blocks and set a career best with six assists at No. 16 Arizona (10/10)
• Finished with 12 kills on a .417 hitting percentage and six blocks at Utah (10/19)
• Registered her first career double-double with 12 kills and a career high 10 blocks against No. 17 UCLA (10/24)
• Hit .688 with 23 kills and just one error in sweeps at No. 21 USC (11/12) and No. 18 UCLA (11/13)
• Had eight kills on .467 hitting and nine blocks in her NCAA Tournament debut against CSU Bakersfield (12/5)
• Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention

As a Freshman (2013)

• Redshirted her first season on The Farm

High School

• A 2013 graduate of Mirabeau B. Lamar High School in Houston, Texas
• A two-year letterwinner, only competing for her high school team as a freshman and sophomore
• Team advanced to district playoffs in 2009 and 2010
• Earned all-district honors as a freshman and sophomore

Club Competition

• Played for Southwest Junior
• Captained her team during her senior year
• Team qualified for Junior Nationals in 2011 and 2013

National Team Experience

• Member of the bronze medal winning squad at the NORCECA Championships in Managua, Nicaragua in 2012
• Won gold at the High Performance Championships in Des Moines, Iowa in 2012
• Also played on the 2013 U.S. Junior National Team which competed at the Junior World Championships in Brno, Czech Republic in 2013

Personal

• Daughter of Michael Lutz and Lisa Gertsch, who both graduated from Stanford in 1984
• Has an older brother, Karsten, who was a member of the Stanford men’s rowing team
• Undecided on her major, but thinking about geology, Earth sciences or chemistry
• Hobbies include skiing, reading and traveling
• Born in Dallas, Texas
• Full name is Merete Suzanne Gertsch Lutz

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