In late August, following the Kansas volleyball program’s season-opening loss to Loyola Marymount at Purdue, Kansas coach Ray Bechard ran into setter Camryn Turner and her parents outside of the team hotel and had a brief conversation that proved to be prophetic. Turner, a freshman from ...
It turns out there may be a catch to becoming the NCAA Tournament’s giant killer. “Whether we're flying under the radar still, I'm not sure,” Kansas volleyball head coach Ray Bechard said Tuesday, before the Jayhawks made their way to Pittsburgh for the Sweet 16, and a matchup with the ...
It was only a few years ago that Maggie Bowen was in a Kansas volleyball uniform, helping the Jayhawks make their best NCAA Tournament run in program history. Now in her fifth season on head coach Ray Bechard’s staff as director of operations, Bowen is getting a different perspective on ...
Kansas volleyball head coach Ray Bechard doesn’t mind acknowledging that, just a month ago, he wasn’t exactly sure the Jayhawks had an NCAA Tournament run in their future. At the time, KU had lost eight of its past nine matches and had just four more dates on the schedule to alter its ...
One NCAA Tournament upset win wasn’t enough for the Kansas volleyball team. The Jayhawks made it two in as many nights on Friday, in Omaha, Neb., where KU took down host Creighton in four sets. Sophomore Caroline Crawford sealed KU’s first trip to the Sweet 16 since 2015 with a kill set up ...
Whatever pressure that is supposed to go hand in hand with playing in the NCAA Tournament was nearly nonexistent for the Kansas volleyball team Thursday, as the Jayhawks swept their way to the second round with a three-set upset victory over No. 19-ranked Oregon, in Omaha, Neb. Even though KU ...