The year in University of Kansas athletics was one of wild reversals of fortune. Teams like KU soccer and women’s basketball experienced some of their lowest lows and highest highs in the span of just a few weeks, ultimately rallying on their way to postseason success. Meanwhile, some of ...

Four years, four tournament appearances. One Sweet 16 run, two second-round appearances. An 86-34 record and four rounds of NCAA Tournament games. These are the accomplishments of a Kansas volleyball senior class that has left a big mark on a program on the rise. Six Jayhawks — Caroline ...

Kansas volleyball has had consecutive chances to host the NCAA Tournament as the higher seed in its first two matchups, and each year has been dealt a tough hand in the second round. “We played Penn State here last year, which why they weren’t seeded, (I don’t know). And then Florida, ...

For the second year in a row, Kansas volleyball took on an opponent it had previously faced in its season-opening tournament, this time to open up the NCAA Tournament. And once again, the Jayhawks swept that opponent (25-18, 25-23, 25-22) for a second time — this time, it was Colgate — to ...

For a Kansas volleyball team with so much experience across the board, one of the biggest postseason honors went to a freshman. Reese Ptacek, a first-year middle blocker from Prescott, Wisconsin, saw her first action at KU in late September and by early October had become a fixture in the ...