When Chris Lamb was hired as Wichita State’s head volleyball coach, he told The Sunflower that he was focused on doing whatever possible to “help this team become better.”
Twenty-five years later, mission accomplished. Under Lamb’s leadership, the Wichita State volleyball program has transformed from a middling team that had never won its conference to a consistently contending powerhouse coming off its first national championship trophy.
“We just kept winning more and more every single year,” Lamb said. “I don’t know; (it’s) just me trying to recruit athletes and coach them up as volleyball players.