October 05, 2023

Alumni Ready for More

Before the first game of the season, before the Blue-White game, there was the alumni game, when this year’s UAFS volleyball team took on opponents … who were playing volleyball before today’s students were, well, born.

To be sure, not every member of alumni squad was born before every member of today’s team, but 20-year-olds were born in 2003, and Audra Harper, ’05, played the first season The Stub was open, in 2002. But who’s counting?

This year, Jane Sargent, UAFS’s first and only volleyball coach, led today’s team to victory over Susannah Kelley’s alumni, but that wasn’t what stood out to Josh Simond, Assistant Director of Alumni Engagement.

“What I noticed was how good our alumni still were,” he said. “They could PLAY. But more than that it was so fun to see how they interacted with each other. Most of them acted like they hadn’t spent a day apart.”

The alumni players are ready to keep this tradition alive.

“Two of the players have approached me about expanding it to be a weekend next year so they could practice the day before,” Simond said. 

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