LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory knows her group of 16 athletes, 11 of them freshmen or sophomores, is excited about its first team trip for a tournament this season. But she wants her team to know the trip to New Mexico isn’t a vacation.
“This is a business trip,” Flory said. “We’re not just taking a flight across the country. We’re not going on.”
Flory said she was impressed with the offensive play at last weekend’s Tiger Classic.
“We thought we’d be good and be solid in terms of how our middles were,” she said. “But we didn’t know we were going to be that fast and us.”
Flory said both teams are dangerous.
“Anytime you have a group of great athletes, they’re going to have a breakout moment,” she said. “We just have to make sure that it’s not against