For the LSU volleyball team, being a family has a different meaning.
LSU’s players have fun together, and their bond helps their performance on the court.
The team’s new motto, “All set, All emotion, All attack,” represents the relationships they have formed.
LSU associate head coach Jill Lytle Wilson said LSU’s Creative Services Department developed the idea to be able to interchange words to pair with the word “All.”
It allows teammates to insert what they are “all” representing as student athletes — all dedicated, all determined, all caring and so on.
“They wanted to have something that could have kind of fit our entire athletic department, but where we could have our own individual philosophies and [put] our own words into the ‘all,’” Wilson said.
The Tigers have also taken on the words “All for Louisiana.”
“With the flooding that happened last week, we’re all for Louisiana right now,” Wilson said. “We always were but it’s even more now. It’s even more important to these young kids, a lot of freshman on the team, to understand who we play for.”
The theme changes every season as the team does too.
Last season’s motto was “What’s your why?” It encouraged the Tigers to figure out what their purposes were as student athletes.
“Why we do what we do? Why we play the sport? Why we practice every day? Why we excel at school?” sophomore defensive specialist Katie Kampen explained. “It was just your motivation behind what you do.”
Kampen said the two themes work with each other. “All set, All emotion, All attack” helps the teammates understand why they strive to succeed, on and off the court.
Each Tiger has adopted the motto and mindset, while also incorporating different words that resonate with them.
LSU volleyball tweeted that sophomore Toni Rodriguez is “All Ready.”
“I’m all ready because I’m ready to be back on the court with my teammates, and I’m ready to win an SEC championship,” Rodriguez said.
Junior defensive specialist Kelly Quinn is “All Work,” another tweet read.
“I am all work because I believe the more work you put into something, the more that the team will get out of it,” Quinn said.
Junior outside hitter Gina Tillis is “All Faith,” another tweet read.
“I am all faith. I have faith in my teammates [and] LSU, and I’ll always have faith in my family and God,” Tillis said.
Kampen said the new motto works well with who the team is.
“We all have our own individual things that we’re all in for, but I think the biggest thing the motto represents is being invested and being 100 percent committed to everything we’re doing,” Kampen said.

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(Left to right) LSU junior setter and defensive specialist Cheyenne Wood (23) and junior outside and right side hitter Gina Tillis (12) as they perpare for practice on Aug. 31, 2016, to et ready for the umpcoming volleyball season.