The videos kept coming to the coaches via email. One clip showed a high school libero practicing passing with her father serving and mom setting in the street in Cypress, Texas. Another showed her digging volleyballs in the driveway after hitting them off the side of the house.
"If nothing else, you were impressed with her gumption," Wichita State coach Chris Lamb said. "She was literally her putting her phone against a tree, making movies, of her out there against a garage door."
Annalie Heliste's creative content got her noticed, got her to Wichita State and, this season, got her the libero uniform.