The third member of Penn State’s 2015 recruiting class is Wilmarie Rivera, who has signed a Letter of Intent to play for the Nittany Lions in the 2015 season.

Wilmarie was the starting setter (and team captain) for the Puerto Rican Girls’ Youth National Team that competed for the FIVB World Championship played in Thailand last year.  She also participated in the U-20 tournament in the Czech Republic.  If we’ve done our conversions correctly, she is listed at 5-10 — but we don’t know if that’s current or accurate.

She was quoted in the article below as saying that she is “very happy with this opportunity and ready to enter a new phase of my life.” Wilmarie will graduate from St. Francis Academy in May 2015. She joins an impressive list of Puerto Rican athletes who have played for Penn State, including Ramón ‘Monchito’ Hernández, Javier Gaspar, Edgardo Goas, Carlos Ortiz, Dennis Del Valle, Guillermo Silva, and Jorge Pérez, among others.

Welcome Wilmarie!

Below is a photo of Wilmarie signing her letter of intent, along with the full Spanish language version of the article from which we cribbed this story:

Video Jukebox

Here’s a short video of Wilmarie — seems like a genuinely nice young person:

Here’s a video of the Poland vs. Puerto Rico match at the Girls Under-18 World Championship in 2013:

And here’s a video of Wilmarie (in red shirt — #11) playing for Puerto Rico against the Dominican Republic in the 2013 Pan Am Cup:

Wilmarie’s biography from the FIVB website

Puerto Rican Team Roster

Here’s the roster from the Puerto Rican Girls’ National Team, where Wilmarie was a teammate of, among others, Minnesota’s Daly Santana and Dalianliz Rosado:

PUR / Puerto Rico – Team Composition

Team manager Rigel Colon Head coach Eric Gonzalez Assistant coach Jose Barcelo Doctor Therapist / trainer Katherine Carrion Journalist

No. Name Last name Shirt Name Birthdate Height Weight Spike Block Club C 1 Daly Santana Santana 19.02.1995 185 65 300 274 National Team 2 Pilar Marie Victoria Victoria 11.10.1995 182 53 301 268 National Team 3 Kanisha Jimenez Jimenez 28.11.1995 185 56 295 291 National Team 4 Dalianliz Rosado Rosado 17.11.1995 170 56 298 292 National Team 5 Lucia Castro Castro 06.06.1994 185 63 302 297 National Team 6 Lorena Marquez Marquez 05.02.1994 183 61 270 268 National Team 7 Dianise Rodriguez Rodriguez 14.06.1995 174 50 283 268 National Team 8 Stephanie Massanet Massanet 14.10.1994 189 69 296 279 National Team 9 Wendy Flores Flores 28.04.1994 185 81 294 288 National Team 10 Jizzyan Gesualdo Gesualdo 19.07.1994 189 74 277 271 Ponce 11 Wilmarie Rivera Rivera 14.02.1997 178 58 294 288 National Team 12 Genesis Miranda Miranda 05.06.1996 180 56 288 283 National Team 13 Joscelyn Coronel Coronel 02.01.1998 185 63 302 297 National Team 14 Ana Sofia Jusino Jusino 05.01.1994 189 65 310 294 National Team 15 Katia Sanchez Sanchez 29.11.1995 68 194 306 299 National Team 16 Joahnie Astacio Astacio 06.09.1995 182 76 289 282 National Team 17 Alba Hernandez Hernandez 03.10.1994 207 87 305 293 National Team 18 Gabriela Varela Varela 26.02.1995 182 62 288 282 National Team

C=Captain  L=Libero