Shannon Oberg Class: Senior Hometown: Islip, N.Y. Last College: Daytona Beach CC Height: 6-0 Position: Guard/Forward Experience: TR

UNLV Profile

Will add size to UNLV's perimeter game ... has good three-point range, which will provide the Lady Rebels with another threat from behind the arc.

Daytona Beach CC

(2006-07 -Sophomore): Led DBCC in three-pointers made with 45, and averaged 10.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game on the way to her second-straight all-conference season ... helped Falcons to a No. 10 ranking in the state.

(2005-06 - Freshman): Starter and earned All-Mid Florida Conference honors.

High School

Six-year varsity starter, beginning with two years at Islip High, where she was all-rookie in seventh grade and all-league in eighth grade ... played for her father, Ted Oberg, at St. John the Baptist in West Islip, along with her sister Kaitlin ... led St. John's to two-straight Long Island championships ... was a three-time CWSAA All-League and All-Long Island selection ... her senior year was a Street & Smith honorable mention all-american and helped her team defeat the nation's No. 1 rated team (by USA Today) Murry Bergteaum ... averaged 13.7 points, 8.4 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 4.2 steals per game her final season ... named to Newsday Young Gun Team as one of the top-five 8th graders on Long Island ... played AAU basketball for the Basketball Results in Long Island in 2004, helping them to a second-place finish at the Junior Nationals.

Personal

Shannon C. Oberg ... born on April 27, 1986, in Islip, N.Y. ... daughter of Ted and Kathy Oberg ... has three sisters, Kaitlin (19), Sarah (17), and Meghan (9), and three brothers, Andrew (15), Tighe (13), and Tristan (12) ... her grandfather, Jerry Smith, played both basketball and baseball for Notre Dame and was a baseball scout for the Philadelphia Phillies, while her mother played basketball at Alabama ... two more relatives also have ties to Notre Dame athletics, as her Aunt Theresa Smith played basketball while her uncle Gregory Smith played football for the Irish ... choose UNLV over Alabama, Nebraska, and West Virginia ... majoring in university studies.