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California Institute of Technology

2017 Women's Volleyball

5 Rachel Ng

  • Height 5-7
  • Year Senior
  • Hometown Millbrae, Calif.
  • High School Mills
  • Major Bioengineering

Biography

Honors
 SCIAC All-Academic Team (2015-16)

2017
Appeared in six sets...Picked up one assist and one dig.

2016
Appeared in 35 sets...Picked up three service aces and 26 digs.

2015
Played in 22 sets over 11 matches...Recorded three kills...Made four digs and three block assists.

Research and STEM activities
Quartz Therapeutics Internship...Optimized cyclic peptide that targets oncoprotein KRAS SIRD during a SURF projecti n the Health lab...Studied proteins related to neurodegenerative diseases in the Kao Lab at UCSF...Published in the 2015 Journal of Neuroscience, titled "The progranulin cleavage products, granulins, exacerbate TDP-43 toxicity and increase TDP-43 levels".

Personal
Born in Hong Kong...Participates in Chamber Music, the Caltech Pipettes acapella group, and Engineers without Borders...Daughter of William and Linda...Has one older sister, Sarah, and one younger brother, Clement...Plays violin.

Statistics

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2017

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Historical Player Information

  • 1

    2016Junior

    OPP
    5'6"
    1
  • 5

    2017Senior

    OPP
    5'7"
    5