Dana Rettke

Dana Lynn Rettke ( ; born January 21, 1999) is an American professional volleyball player for Eczacıbaşı Dynavit in the Turkish Sultanlar Ligi. She played collegiate volleyball at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is the first five-time AVCA First Team All American in collegiate history. Rettke was also a member of the U.S. national team and has won All-Big Ten honors in each of her five college seasons, was the 2019–20 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year and the 2021-2022 winner of the Honda Sports Award for women's volleyball.

Early life Growing up in Riverside, Illinois, Rettke graduated from Riverside Brookfield High School in 2017. An Illinois Player of the Year, she earned multiple All-American honors as a senior, USA Today first team and American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) second team.

College career After high school, Rettke enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2017 and majored in business marketing. A middle blocker for the Wisconsin Badgers, she was the tallest member of the team when she joined. Starting in all 32 matches of 2017, Rettke played in 113 sets and averaged 4.39 points, 3.42 kills, 1.37 blocks, and 0.22 service aces. Rettke finished 2019 with her third consecutive All-Big Ten and first-team AVCA All-American honors and was the 2019–20 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year. On December 18, 2021 Rettke helped lead the Badgers to its first ever NCAA national championship and was named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament team. On January 4, 2022, Rettke was named the Honda Sports Award volleyball winner as the nation's top collegiate female volleyball player. In June 2022, Rettke won Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year award for the second time. With the honor, she became the first Big Ten student-athlete ever chosen Big Ten Athlete of the Year in non-consecutive seasons, and became the third two-time recipient of the Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year Award.

International career

National team Rettke was part of the 2018 USA Volleyball Collegiate National Team. Competing in five matches, Rettke helped the U.S. win gold in the Nations League. She played for the 2024 Paris Olympics team that won the silver medal.

Club Following her career at Wisconsin, she signed on to play professional volleyball with A1 Italian club team, Vero Volley Milano in 2022. Rettke signed with Turkish club Eczacıbaşı Dynavit in May 2024.