High School: Averaged 16 points and 10 rebounds for Methuen High... Scored 1,226 career points and holds school record for points (49) and rebounds (31) in a game... Selected USA Today, Street and Smith, and Converse honorable mention all-America as well as Boston Globe all-scholastic for two years... MVP of her team two years and of the conference her senior season... Methuen won the state title in 1986... Also lettered in track and volleyball.
Gives the Tigers good height in the middle... Once she learns the college game, should help Tracy Ellis patrol the inside game.
Personal: Major electrical engineering... Parents are Angelo and Jean Orlando... Born March 14, 1969
Rutherford on Orlando: "At 6'2", she will give us the height that we need inside. With experience, she should be a force inside for us. She works hard and should see playing time inside."