Volleyball looks to build on last season’s success

Senior setter Tess Reid serves in a practice on Monday, Aug. 26. She is one of several key returning players for LMU’s volleyball team.

In the 2018 season, the LMU volleyball team made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015, reaching the second round in the process. As the 2019 season begins, the team wants to not only replicate that result but to improve upon it as well.

“Making the NCAA Tournament is always the goal,” head coach Aaron Mansfield said. “You want to catch fire and [play] your best volleyball at the end of the year.