For Immediate Release: July 20, 2006
Contact: Anthony G. Naglieri (sports@binghamton.edu)
Phone: 607-777-2956

Binghamton volleyball adds Lammert
Wisconsin native will join Bearcats program this fall

VESTAL, N.Y.- The Binghamton University volleyball program has announced the signing of Dawn Lammert (Sussex, WI) to a National Letter of Intent. Lammert, a middle hitter from Arrowhead High School, will join the reigning conference champion Bearcats this fall.

A two-sport standout, Lammert was a two-year varsity letterwinner in volleyball and a three-year letterwinner in track and field, where she was a state qualifier and regional champion in the high jump.

The Wisconsin native has also played with the highly regarded Milwaukee Sting club squad. The region's top women's junior program, the Sting club has seen over 50 alumni go on to play at the Division-I level in the last five years alone.

"Dawn is a welcome addition to our team," said head coach Glenn Kiriyama. "She has the size (6'2) to be a pretty good blocker and we expect she will make an immediate impact."

Outside the athletic arena, Lammert is a model of student-athlete success. She graduated first in her class with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average and is set to begin partcipation in the Binghamton Scholars Program this August.

Coach Kiriyama and the Bearcat women are coming off a record-setting 2005 campaign in which they amassed a program-best 20 victories, captured their first conference championship and earned the program's first ever bid to the NCAA Tournament.

The program's sixth season of competition at the Division-I level begins August 25-26 at the sixth-annual Rocket Classic in Ohio.