Fundamentally sound post player … maintains first-year athletic status after redshirting freshman season ... tallest native Vermonter to play for the Purple Knights since fellow Essex High graduate Kelly Borch ’99 (6-foot-1) ... first SMC player ever to don No. 00 ... As a freshman: Received a medical redshirt due to a foot injury ... recorded highest GPA (3.82) on team ... High School: Played four years of varsity basketball at Essex High under Jean Robinson ... led Essex in defensive rebounds as a senior despite missing time due to mononucleosis and a knee injury … served as captain and won sportsmanship award as a senior … Burlington Free Press All-State Honorable Mention as a junior … led team to second-place finish in Division I as a sophomore and junior … AAU team won state crowns when she was in fifth, seventh, eighth and 10th grade ... AAU team was New England champ in eighth grade and went undefeated as the first Vermont team to win the New England Championship … team was Catholic Youth Organization state champs from sixth to eighth grade … played softball as a freshman and junior at Essex ... member of National Honor Society ... ranked fourth in senior class of 360 ... received all A’s while placing on the honor roll all 16 quarters ... was recommended to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine at Villanova University in 2001 ... Personal: Chandler Marie Smalling was born on December 13, 1983 ... daughter of Kent and Carla Smalling ... father played professional baseball for the Montreal Expos and Minnesota Twins ... double-majoring in business and accounting.