In a match where the present wasn’t quite enough to topple a top-10 team at the top of their game, a glimpse of what’s coming for Husky volleyball offered a tantalizing sight of what’s coming in the future. True freshman middle blocker Lauren Sanders, an Under Armour HS All-American and top-20 recruit nationally, completely took over the game for a span during the Huskies’ impressive 3rd set. Sanders killed all 4 of her attacks in the set and picked up 4 blocks, including two solo blocks, a relative rarity in indoor volleyball.
From last year to this year, losing only seldom-used grad transfer middle blocker Kameron McLain meant that this year’s squad is very well set up to go on a run.