Briefly... Vanessa Lunardi enters her first season of collegiate tennis at LMU in 2006-07...

High School... she graduated from Monte Vista High School in Danville, Calif., in 2006... played No. 1 and No. 2 singles for coach Patty Gross... was a four-year letterwinner and was team captain as a senior... was named all-city all four seasons... in addition she was named All-East Bay League all four seasons...

Personal... Vanessa Rae Lunardi was born in Walnut Creek and is the daughter of Jeanine and Pete... she has a brother... volunteered time as a Special Olympics coach, at Sunrise Assisted Living center, at the Joseph Mattucie Foundation and for the American Cancer Society... is a business major.