Liza Wischer

Height:
5-6
Class:
Sophomore
High School:
Grand Forks Red River HS
Hometown:
Grand Forks, N.D.

Awards and Honors
Most Valuable Player (2010)
Hardest Worker Award (2008, 2009, 2010)
Academic All-Big 12 Second Team (2010, 2011)
Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (F09, S10)
Iowa State Scholar Athlete (2010, 2011)

2010-11
Ranks seventh in school history with 101 total wins ... 58 career singles wins is fourth all time ... second all time with 14 Big 12 singles wins and seventh with 41 dual singles wins ... recorded a 12-15 singles record while going 8-16 in doubles play ... played primarily in the No. 6 singles spot and No. 3 doubles spot with Jenna Langhorst ... posted a 4-7 singles record in Big 12 play, defeating opponents from Colorado, Kansas State, Texas and Texas A&M ... teamed with Langhorst to defeat Big 12 opponents from Kansas and Missouri.

2009-10
Posted the second-best regular-season conference singles record in Iowa State school history, going 6-4 in the Big 12... clinched several matches for the Cyclones, including Big 12 wins over Missouri and Colorado... played primarily at the No. 6 slot, going 18-12 overall with an 11-8 mark in dual meets... went 16-14 overall in doubles action... partnered with Alyssa Palen to go 10-12 in dual matches... after picking up five consecutive wins at the start of the season, the pair posted a 3-8 mark in the Big 12 with wins over Colorado, Kansas and Kansas State.

2008-09
Earned a team-high 22 singles wins, going 22-12 overall ... went 14-9 in dual meets, playing at the No. 4 and 5 single positions ... won 11 consecutive matches to start the spring season, including wins over opponents from Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas State ... her win against KSU’s Petra Chuda helped propel ISU to its first Big 12 win in more than seven years ... also earned a league win over Oklahoma State’s Alisa Buslaieva ... went 8-3 in the fall season ... won 12 doubles matches, including nine in the spring while paired primarily with Tessa Lang at the No. 3 spot ... collected three doubles wins in Big 12 action (Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma State).

2007-08
Posted second most singles victories with seven ... defeated Texas Tech’s Maria Jose Andres ... played No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 singles ... partnered with Kara Hickey at the No. 3 doubles spot to defeat Nebraska ... teamed with Reka Kelemen at the No. 3 slot to upend Baylor ... tallied the most doubles wins on the team with six.

Before ISU
Went 129-0 in No. 1 singles slot from seventh grade through senior year ... caputred six consecutive North Dakota singles state titles from seventh grade through senior year, making her the youngest player in North Dakota history to win a singles championship ... has most singles titles in North Dakota history ... unanimous all-state and all-conference performer from seventh grade through senior year ... went 32-1 in doubles, with only loss coming in eighth grade ... team captain senior year ... ranked No. 1 in USTA singles and doubles in all age divisions in North Dakota ... ranked No. 2 in USTA singles sectional in 18s ... nationally ranked by the USTA in singles in 18s ... ranked No. 1 in USTA doubles sectional in all age divisions ... ranked in top-15 nationally by the USTA in doubles in 16s and 18s ... received three National Zonal Sportsmanship Awards ... featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” ... member of the National Honor Society.

Personal
Born Sept. 2, 1987... daughter of Brian and Jane Wischer ... has two brothers, William (25) who played tennis at Concordia College, and Gregory (13), and a sister, Brynne (23), who played tennis at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and North Dakota ... was a ball girl for Andy Roddick and Andre Agassi ... majoring in communication studies.