#1 Kristin Baer Women's Basketball Roster

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CAREER

FIFTH YEAR (2019-20)

• Joined the women’s basketball squad before the Georgia Tech game on Feb. 22. Wore No. 1.

• Baer got into the Pitt game on Feb. 9 with 1:35 remaining and scored her first and only career basket.

• Also made an appearance at the end of the North Carolina game on Feb. 27.
• NDinsider article on Baer

VOLLEYBALL CAREER

HONORS & AWARDS

• ACC Academic Honor Roll (2015, 2016, 2018)

FIFTH YEAR (2019)

• Started all 29 matches and appeared in all 115 sets of play.
• Led the Irish a career-high 119 total blocks, including 10 solo blocks.
• Recorded 10 total blocks in Notre Dame’s four-set win over Northern Kentucky on September 14.
• Collected at least five blocks in 14 matches.
• Added a career-high 177 kills with a .304 hitting percentage.

AS A SENIOR (2018)

• Played in eight matches, totaling 24 sets of play in her senior season
• Posting a career-high 13 kills in the season finale at Duke (11/21)
• Recorded 32 kills during the season

AS A JUNIOR (2017)

• Played in 11 matches, earning five starts in her junior season
• Totaled 22 kills and 13 blocks in 23 sets of play
• Posted a career-high five kills in wins over Southern Illinois (9/16) and Miami (10/22)
• Made first career start against Rhode Island (8/26)

AS A SOPHOMORE (2016)

• Appeared in one match her sophomore season
• Posted one assist

AS A FRESHMAN (2015)

• Did not see any action during rookie season
• Earned a spot on the ACC Academic Honor Roll

HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL

• Pronounced “BEAR”
• Graduated from St. Francis H.S. in Mountain View, California in May 2015
• Earned two varsity letters in volleyball
• Was team captain as a senior
• Led team to a pair of West Catholic Athletic League titles as a freshman and sophomore
• Went a combined 53-6 over those two years
• Was a member of the City Beach Volleyball Club from 2012-14 and the Red Rock Volleyball Club in 2015
• Helped Red Rock finish first out of 36 teams at the 2015 Northern California Regional Tournament
• Led squad in attack percentage and blocks at the 2015 Pacific Northwest Qualifier to help team place third and earn a bid in the 18-Open division for the 2015 Girls Junior National Championships
• Graduated maxima cum laude
• Member of the National Honors Society and the Foreign Language Honors Society
• Selected to the honor roll all four years
• Was a National Merit Commended Student and is a lifetime member of the California Scholarship Federation
• Competed against Irish teammate Maddie Dilfer in high school and club volleyball.
• Full name is Kristin Ann Baer
• Born in San Jose, California to Brian and Kalyn Baer
• Has two older brothers, Ryan and Tom
• Brothers Ryan (‘15) and Tom (‘17) graduated from Notre Dame
• Cousin, Tom Pieser, graduated from Notre Dame in 1999 and great uncle, Richard Pieser, graduated in 1957
• Cousin, Melissa Yuhas Bartlett, played soccer at Stanford and cousin, Nicholas Baer, plays basketball at Iowa
• Enrolled in the Mendoza College of Business and is majoring in management consulting and Spanish