Alyssa Goehner has goals of playing on the Olympic volleyball team one day.
The best route for that was to make her way up through the national team ranks, which she started as an All-American at Lakeville North High School.
An opportunity came to play at the U.S. collegiate national team program in New Orleans this summer, but the University of Minnesota sophomore decided to decline the invitation.
Instead of competing with Team USA as a libero or defensive specialist, Goehner chose to be an outside hitter with the inaugural Big Ten Foreign Tour team that competes in seven matches in Croatia, Slovenia and Italy from Monday through June 24.