A Kansas team that contains more newcomers than returning players and features six freshmen, several in prominent roles, will get introduced to high-level college volleyball in a hurry. The Jayhawks are set to open their season on Friday at 5:30 p.m. Central time with a road match against ...
Kansas coach Matt Ulmer acknowledges that his first team with the Jayhawks was perhaps not “the greatest roster that’s ever made a Sweet 16.” Last year’s KU squad was a bit of a patchwork, with holdovers from the Ray Bechard era, some rather inexperienced, playing alongside select ...
Right-side hitter Taylor Stanley was named the Big 12’s freshman of the year, and a pair of Jayhawks received all-league selections as part of the conference’s preseason honors that were announced on Tuesday morning. Stanley, a 6-foot-3 Overland Park native who attended Blue Valley ...
Last offseason was a challenge for Kansas volleyball coach Matt Ulmer. He moved to Lawrence, then had to get situated at his new job and fill out a roster of players he’d just met. But despite all of that, the Jayhawks still finished second in the Big 12 and reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA ...
Kansas volleyball coach Matt Ulmer believes a college athlete’s freshman year is always the most difficult. They’re away from home, integrating into a new environment and finding a role on their team. Ulmer believed that allowing those freshmen to play more here or there would be a ...
It certainly seems like quite a few college athletes are about to get more eligibility, whether they were actively looking for it or not. Amid a barrage of increasingly successful lawsuits by members of the high school class of 2022 who played four straight seasons in college, then graduated ...
It’s that quiet time of the year well after spring sports come to a close, one that Kansas Athletics forestalled a bit this time around with a lengthy postseason run for its baseball team and a few strong track and field performances, but one that inevitably arrives every summer. In reality, ...
Settling back into Kansas this time around required a brief adjustment period for Ainise Havili. The former KU setter, one of just a select few Jayhawks whose jerseys hang in the rafters of Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena, had obviously spent plenty of time around the program, even in the ...
