Mom was a college volleyball player, dad a college football player and track athlete. Her older brother is an NCAA Division I football player, one of her older sisters was a college athlete, and the other still is. Small wonder that Krista Loos is on the same path.

Loos led Sterling to a historic season, topping the Golden Warriors in kills and aces along the way to earn SVM’s 2012 volleyball player of the year recognition.

The Loos cannon unleashed a whopping 138 aces, 45 more than any other player in the Sauk Valley, averaging more than 2 per game. The senior captain also led Sterling in kills (315, 5 per game) and was second on the team in digs (213, 3.4 per game).