What comes to mind when you hear the words ‘team sport’? The first image or concept is probably a long compilation of coaches from various sports spouting off well-worn platitudes about teamwork over individual achievement. If there is any particular sport that should come to mind, there may be no better example than volleyball. When it comes to quality team-first players within such a cooperative sport, not many are better than sophomore outside hitter Delaney Hopen.
“The sport is a lot unlike any other that I played growing up,” Hopen said. “How the team gels with each other makes a big difference and we’ve done a really good job of that so far.