CHARLESTON, Ill. — It was something Ryan Theis, in all his 17 years as a head coach, needed to think about for the first time — who were his two liberos going to be?
Courtesy of a new NCAA rule, teams can now field two liberos at the same time. This gave Theis, who has four defensive specialists at his disposal — Molly Berezowitz, Adriana Studer, Jadyn Garrison and Samantha Naber — a new kind of flexibility when deciding who he wanted in the off-colored jerseys.
“The thought process behind it. What do we want in the first libero, the second Libero versus a DS role,” Theis said.