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CareerTimeline

Most Notable

  • Volleyball icon Made senior national team debut during 2019 Volleyball Nations League
  • Volleyball icon Has played professionally in Italy
  • Volleyball icon First five-time AVCA All-American (took advantage of extra year granted to athletes due to COVID)
  • Volleyball icon Led Wisconsin to the 2021 NCAA Division I national title
  • Volleyball icon 2021-22 Honda Sports Award Winner for volleyball
  • Volleyball icon 2019-20 Big 10 Female Athlete of the Year
  • Volleyball icon 2018 and 2021 Women's Collegiate National Team

Events

  • 2024 Olympic Games - Silver
  • flag icon 2024 USA Volleyball Cup Friendlies vs Netherlands
  • flag icon 2024 Volleyball Nations League Final Round (Fifth)
  • flag icon 2024 Volleyball Nations League Weeks Two and Three
  • flag icon 2023 FIVB Road to Paris Olympic Qualifier
  • Medal 2023 NORCECA Continental Championship – Silver
  • flag icon 2023 Volleyball Nations League Final - 4th
  • flag icon 2023 Volleyball Nations League Weeks One and Three
  • flag icon 2022 USAV Cup Friendlies vs. Türkiye
  • flag icon 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League Final Round - 5th (lost to Serbia in quarterfinals)
  • flag icon 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League - Weeks One and Three
  • Medal 2019 FIVB Volleyball Nations League - Gold
  • flag icon 2019 FIVB Tokyo Olympic Qualifier
  • flag icon 2018 Women's Collegiate National Team China (team went 4-1)

Personal Highlights

  • Volleyball icon Parents are Kathy and John Rettke; one sister
  • Volleyball icon 2016 Illinois State Player of the Year in high school
  • Volleyball icon Played club ball with 1st Alliance
  • Volleyball icon In 2024, Rettke and teammate Lauren Carlini became the first volleyball players from the University of Wisconsin to be named to an Olympic Team

Dana on the USA Volleyball Show

 

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  • On helping beat Brazil in the first week of 2022 VNL“I thought we did well. I thought we did a good job of controlling the things we could control. Brazil gave us some different looks since we were putting on the pressure and we were prepared for that.”