KU Volleyball

Year in review, Part 3: A look ahead to 2026

It may not feature quite as much upheaval as 2025 — accounting for the House v. NCAA settlement while opening a new stadium was certainly quite a lot to handle for the Kansas athletic department — but 2026 will still be a year of change for KU. The university’s Gateway project is really ...

Year in review, Part 2: The most memorable quotes of 2025

From dog food to pocketknives and everything in between, University of Kansas players and coaches held forth on a variety of subjects over the course of 2025. The Journal-World’s KU sports coverage captured what the Jayhawks had to say at their highest and lowest moments. Here are some of ...

Year in review, Part 1: The most significant storylines of 2025

It’s difficult to distill an entire year of college sports action into a single cohesive story, but the year 2025 in Kansas Athletics certainly saw many of KU’s recent coaching hires begin to bear fruit. Dan Fitzgerald (baseball), Lindsay Kuhle (women’s golf), Nate Lie (soccer) and Matt ...

A look to the future for the KU volleyball roster

One of the qualities that makes Nebraska so good, Kansas coach Matt Ulmer told reporters after his team got eliminated by the Cornhuskers last week, is that they’ve experienced disappointment in the past and it makes them “hungrier to keep building.” “For us, this is the first time ...

KU volleyball knocked out by unbeaten Nebraska in Sweet 16 sweep

A promising season of Kansas volleyball under the guidance of first-year head coach Matt Ulmer came to a grim end on Friday night in Lincoln, Nebraska, as the Jayhawks found themselves on the receiving end of a dominant 3-0 sweep (25-12, 25-11, 25-12) by the host Cornhuskers at the Bob Devaney ...

KU volleyball wants to put some pressure on unbeaten Nebraska in Sweet 16

No one has beaten this year’s Nebraska team yet. The Cornhuskers are 32-0 and have lost one set — not one match, but one set — in their previous 23 matches. But Nebraska as a program is certainly not unbeatable, and Kansas coach Matt Ulmer is proof: In his very first match as a head ...