5,626 miles. That's how far graduate transfer Tamara Merseli is from her hometown of Belgrade, Serbia. But it is here, in Monroe, Louisiana that the graduate transfer has found her new home.
Merseli comes to the Pelican state after two years as an indoor volleyball student-athlete for the Univeristy of North Dakota. It was at UND where Merseli garnered multiple awards and was nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
"I started playing volleyball when I was in 7th grade," Merseli said. "My dad used to play and back home we used to watch our volleyball national team and it just naturally came to me that I wanted to try it.