#45 Laura Rudolphi Forward • Jr. • 6-2 Carlyle, Ill./Carlyle

2005-06: Her 37 blocked shots placed her second in the school record books for an individual season … Scored a career-best 17 points, by hitting 5-of-7 shots from the field and connecting on seven free throws in the Sycamores’ league opening win at Evansville … Recorded nine rebounds and two blocked shots in the 79-69 victory over the Purple Aces … Nominated for Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week (1/23) for her effort against Wichita State and Missouri State … Posted a career-best four blocked shots, while leading the team in scoring with 14 points in the home court victory over the Lady Bears … Notched a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds during the Missouri Valley Conference Championship contest … Hit a careerbest 6-of-8 shots from the floor in scoring 12 points during a 70-59 victory at Bradley … Scored seven points and recorded three blocked shots, including one shot in the game’s closing seconds, to secure a 75-71 road court victory over Illinois State … Hit both of her field goal attempts to score four points in a 96-81 victory at Eastern Kentucky … Averaged 5.4 points, 3.1 rebounds and a little over one blocked shot per game.

2004-05: Her 26 blocked shots are the eight-most in a single-season in
school history … Scored six points in her collegiate debut at Miami (Ohio)
… Blocked two shots in the home opening win against Eastern Illinois …
Scored six points for the third time in her young career in a 66-59 win over
Indiana … Recorded eight points in the 91-64 win over Eastern Kentucky … Led team with three blocked shots against EKU … Scored a season-high 12 points in a win over William & Mary … Named to the All-Image Depot Shootout team … Honored as MVC’s Newcomer of the Week following her
efforts against William & Mary as well as High Point … Scored six points by hitting 3-of-6 shots from the field in a 78-66 win over Southern Illinois … Scored nine key second-half points as she sparked a 15-2 run that helped ISU to a 79-71 victory over Drake … Scored eight points by hitting 2-of-3 shots from the field and four free throws in a 75-56 win over Northern Iowa … Posted nine points and five rebounds with a blocked shot against Illinois State … Notched four points in a WNIT victory over Illinois.

Prep Career: Selected as Street and Smith’s Honorable Mention High SchoolAll-American in 2004 … Averaged 20.0 points while bringing down 7.5 rebounds per game as a senior … Received several postseason honors in 2004 including First Team All-State honors from the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association for the third time and Champaign News Gazette for the second … Was second team all-stater for the Associated Press, and a third team member of the ST. Louis Post-Dispatch All-Metro squad … Named to the Southern Illinois Coaches’ Association All-South team … As a junior and senior was named the Belleville News-Democrat and Centralia Morning Sentinel Player of the Year … A finalist for the Ms. Basketball Award in the state of Illinois … Was first team All- Cahokia Conference all four years of high school … Posted 24 points and 10 rebounds during the 2004 Illinois High School Girl’s All-Star game, taking Most Valuable Player honors … Was the highlight of the game, as she dunked a volleyball, during the otherwise all-male Slam Dunk Competition … Received the Team Leadership Award during the Illinois North/South All-Star Game … Rudolphi averaged 23 points, 8.6 rebounds and 3.3 blocked shots per game for the 19-8 Carlyle squad in the 2002-03 season … As a junior, Rudolphi sank 63 percent of her shots from the field … She also made 78 percent of her free throws as the Indians reached the championship game of the Class A regional beforebeing eliminated … As a junior, she took All-State honors from The Associated Press Third Team, Illinois Basketball Coaches Association First Team as well as the Champaign New Gazette First Team … Played for coach Angie Krebs at Carlyle High School … Four-year basketball letterwinner as well as onetime golf letterwinner.

Personal: Born Laura Jean Rudolphi on September 23, 1985 to Charles and Jean Rudolphi in Carlyle, Ill. … Comes from a sports oriented family as she had one sister, Elaine Rudolphi, play collegiate basketball at Washington University (Mo.) and another sister, Patti Heard, play volleyball
at McKendree College … Her brother, Brian Rudolphi was a basketball player at McKendree in the mid-90s.