Pine-Richland HS: 2010 graduate ... played for Donna Stephenson ... honorable mention Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League All-Star as a senior ... two-time Keystone State Games team member ... member, National Honor Society ... achieved highest honor roll status all four years ... member, World Language and Key Clubs ... served as a peer tutor.

Personal: Claire Elizabeth Kortyna ... member, SMCM Nitze Scholars program ... born October 28, 1991 in Charleston, S.C. ... daughter of David and Melissa Kortyna ... her father swam and played tennis at Pittsburgh ... has three siblings named Cullen, Brighid, and Fiona.

Why St. Mary's?: "It's beautiful and has the environment and academics that I was looking for in a college."