University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2023:  Appeared in 16 matches, starting three...Had her best match of the season at UAlbany, tallying six kills on .600 hitting with six blocks...Had three kills and three blocks against Bryant in the America East semifinal....Had four kills and a block in the America East Championship

2022: Appeared in a career-high 26 games, making 15 starts on the year… Had a season-high 11 kills against Villanova… Had four kills on . 667 hitting in back-to-back games against Binghamton and NJIT, including a career-high eight digs against NJIT

Fall 2021: America East Elite 18 Award winner, which symbolizes the top performing student-athlete in the championships. Ferketic is a physics major and maintains a 4.0 grade-point average...Appeared in a career-high 16 matches making 12 starts....Had a season-high five blocks against UTRGV and then added a season-best 10 kills against Nicholls State the following day...Had seven kills on .375 hitting and three blocks in sweep of Robert Morris

Spring 2021: Appeared in all 15 matches, starting 13...Had a career-high 17 kills on .326 hitting with four aces (also a career-high) in a five-set win at Stony Brook on February 28...Filled the stat sheet on March 14 against UAlbany, finishing with 12 kills, eight blocks and a career-best nine digs...Collected 10 kills, nine digs and four blocks in a four-set win over New Hampshire on March 21...Had 10 kills on .588 hitting with no errors and added six digs and five blocks in the first match against Hartford on March 28...Started the America East Championship match at UAlbany and NCAA Tournament First Round match...Named to America East All-Academic Team

2019: Named Rookie of the Week for the week of November 17^th... Appeared in 15 matches and 54 sets... Started nine matches including the last six of the season... Had 58 kills on the season... Hit .500 on 16 attempts at Binghamton on November 17^th... Also tallied a season-high 10 kills and nine blocks on 11/17.

Background: Lettered all four years of high school and never missed a match...All-Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League PA District 7 (WPIAL) team all four years of high school...All-State honor sophomore, junior and senior years....Awarded 2015 Frosh 59 special mention (the top 59 varsity playing freshman volleyball players in America)...WPIAL sportsmanship award....High school jersey retired... Scholar Athlete and Honor Roll all four years.

Personal: Daughter of John and Kim Ferketic...Recieved a B.S. in Physics and is currently pursuing a PhD in Theoretical Physics....Co-wrote article "Boosting thermodynamic performance by bending space-time," which examines how to unlock the mysteries of black holes, that was published in January 2023 in the journal Europhysics Letters...Career ambition is to be an Astrophysicist