Ava Sarafa is one of three players of the year in their respective states that will join the UK volleyball team next year.
Kentucky volleyball coach Craig Skinner is going to return a lot of very talented players, including Southeastern Conference Player of the Year Emma Grome and fifth-year senior Azhani Tealer, off this year’s Sweet 16 team that lost to San Diego.
Both of them were recently named All-Americans along with teammates Azhani Tealer and Adanna Rollins — and I still think libero Eleanor Beavin should have merited some All-American recognition.
Skinner is going to be able to rebuild/reload again because he is adding some incredible talent in his most recent recruiting class.
Three Kentucky signees — Brooke Bultema (Ohio), Brooklyn Deleye (Kansas) and Ava Sarafa (Michigan) — all were named the player of the year in their state by MaxPreps.
No other school had three signees named player of the year.
All three obviously were named to the MaxPreps All-America team — only one other school also had three future players named All-American.
Sarafa was also named Michigan Division I player of the year by Prep Dig Michigan.
So if anyone thinks the Cats are going away in volleyball, chances are they are wrong.
