LMU volleyball aims to prove it still belongs

Sophomore setter Tess Reid winds up for a serve in LMU’s Thursday night victory over Long Beach State. The Lions took the match in three sets.

In his first season as LMU’s women’s volleyball head coach, Aaron Mansfield has been presented with what some would call less than desirable circumstances. Former Head Coach Tom Black left the program for the head coaching position at the University of Georgia at the end of the team’s 2016 campaign, directly or indirectly causing the departure of four members of the roster via transfer. One of these four included senior All-American outside hitter Sarah Sponcil.