The 13th-ranked Kansas volleyball team continued to bolster its resume in nonconference play, taking down No. 24 Marquette on Friday and then Western Michigan on Saturday in Milwaukee to advance to 6-0 on the year. The Marquette match saw the Jayhawks bounce back from dropping the first set to ...
The Kansas volleyball team remained unbeaten in the early days of the 2024 season, sweeping in-state foe Wichita State 25-17, 25-21, 25-19 before a sellout crowd at Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena on Wednesday night. With 14 kills on the night, senior outside hitter Ayah Elnady led the way for ...
The Kansas volleyball team opened its season in emphatic fashion over the weekend, claiming three wins in three matches at the Duke Tournament in Durham, North Carolina. KU dropped just one set — the opener against the host Blue Devils on Saturday — as it defeated South Carolina 3-0 on ...
Returning five of its six starters from a 2023 team that made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the Jayhawks are primed to compete for a top spot in a Big 12 Conference that is now without Texas — which won the conference outright for the past four years. In the first look at ...
The first-place ranking that the Kansas volleyball team received in the Big 12 preseason coaches’ poll has a lot to do with what the team accomplished last year, as head coach Ray Bechard acknowledged at a recent press conference. KU went 14-4 in the league last season and brought back many ...
It’s a new year but a lot of the same for the Kansas volleyball team in 2024, with 12 returners from last year on a team that has experienced the NCAA Tournament three times in a row. KU has fielded a competitive volleyball team consistently under coach Ray Bechard, but the 2023 regular ...
Zoey Burgess had a conversation with her mother in early August in which she said one of her goals for the upcoming season was to win Big 12 freshman of the year. Imagine her surprise to learn, a few days later, that she had already earned the preseason edition of that award — something she ...
The Kansas volleyball team earned its first-ever first-place selection in a Big 12 preseason poll on Wednesday. In a survey of conference coaches, the Jayhawks tallied 173 points and six first-place votes, slipping past BYU (168 and four) for the No. 1 spot. The top seven teams have at least ...
