For many freshmen, the weeks before college consist of trips to Bed, Bath & Beyond, seeing high school friends and packing supplies for their dorm rooms.
But for Hannah Vanden Berg, it consisted of a trip to Barcelona instead of Bed, Bath & Beyond, meeting a dozen new teammates instead of seeing high school friends and packing for a two-week volleyball trip instead of dorm essentials.
Vanden Berg went straight from high school to Marquette volleyball’s foreign tour, visiting multiple European cities in two weeks and competing against some of the top teams on the continent in an entirely new system of play.