Nnamani learns her lessons well

U.S. star hones her skills, volleyball IQ for Beijing By Philip Hersh | Tribune reporter You wouldn't figure someone with a Stanford degree in human biology—the favored major of pre-med students—would be thinking about any IQ issues. And you wouldn't figure that someone who was named national high school player of the year and then national college player of the year in her sport would have to work on her knowledge of the game. Yet those are exactly the things Ogonna Nnamani thinks have improved in her game after a season of playing professional volleyball in the tough Italian League. That made it worth being separated from her close-knit family in Bloomington, Ill. And it also made her one of the players to watch on the 2008 U.S. Olympic women's volleyball team that was announced Wednesday. "Sometimes you think you are doing... [read full story]