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Jimmie women’s volleyball

“We just cried,” remembers Kalli. “Dang. Everything we put in, and playing for each other, loving each other, and just inspiring each other. I don’t know if it will ever feel real?”

It could’ve been a down year by Jimmie standards.

Even as UJ carried the nation’s No. 2 ranking and a string of six consecutive NAIA tournament appearances into 2022, Jamestown needed to find replacements for five former allconference athletes, including both setters and All-American middle blocker Corina Huff.

Coach Hegerle admitted after the season that he thought finishing somewhere around the top five in the Great Plains Athletic Conference standings would’ve been admirable.