New Jersey Institute of Technology Athletics

2016-17: Did not play due to injury.

2015-16: Played in 19 games, including five starts. ... averaged 19.6 minutes per game, 1.9 ppg and 3.8 rpg. ... played in the first 9 games of the season before suffering a wrist injury. .. in that stretch of games, Vetra scored a season-best 7 points, 7 rebounds  vs. St. Joseph's Brooklyn (11/28/15). ... Vetra missed 11 games (wrist) and returned back to the court at Kennesaw State (1/30/16) grabbing 7 rebounds. ... scored a season-best 8 points vs. Lipscomb (2/4/16) in the Highlanders first all-time A-Sun victory.

2014-15: Multi-faceted player who can play multiple positions from point guard to power forward. ...appeared in 23 games. ..scored career-high 11 points vs. St. Joseph's (VT) (2/7/15).

2013-14: Played in 23 out of 29 games as a freshman. ... Scored a season-high 10 points with 5 rebounds vs. Harvard (1/15/14).

Prior to NJIT: Ruta Vetra came to the United States from Latvia and enrolled at Our Lady of Mercy Academy in 2011-12. At the school in Newfield, NJ, she was a teammate of fellow Highlander newcomer Maria Ruban. ...Vetra, who overcame a season-ending knee injury in 2011-12, returned to the Villagers the following season shooting 80 percent from the free throw line, averaging nine rebounds a game and less than 10 points a game. ...She played for the Latvian national u16 team, which captured the regular season title while earning MVP playoff honors. Her team placed third in the European Championship Division B.

Personal: Ruta Vetra. ... daughter of Gundars and Argita Vetra. ...A member of the National Honor Society, Vetra majors in communications at NJIT. ... Father, Gundars, played professionally in Europe and was the first Latvian to play in the NBA when he spent the 1992-93 season as a reserve guard and forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Her sister, Laura, played basketball for Fairfield (2009-13) after attending Forth Worth Christian School in Texas. ... born 3/2/95 in Riga, Latvia.