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Did she drop out or was she just not selected?  The three middles chosen were Carly Wopat ('13), Rhamat Alhassan (6'4" rising junior), and Kelsie Payne (6'3" rising junior).  I would guess that Inky is better than either of the last two...maybe her knee isn't all the way back yet?  The roster was released about 10 hrs ago as of this post :)

Roster: http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Fe...Pan-Am-Cup

I'd rather her sit out the summer and be at 100% for a potential title run this fall.

Side note: Kelsie Payne is from Austin, TX, which means that Kansas somehow poached some good vball talent out from under the nose of 2012 natl champion Texas Longhorn coach Jerritt Elliott.

While digging for info, I ran across this ~4 min article from Cassidy Lichtman dated Sept. 2015, which I may have read...but I don't remember doing so.  Good read.

To see me on the court as an outside hitter with the USA National Team, you’d never detect anything out of the ordinary. The truth, though, is that I’ve been in pain every day of my life for over 16 years.

I woke up one morning when I was nine years old with a constant, unrelenting pain in my lower left leg. It has never gone away.

It’s not the kind of pain that disappears after a round of physical therapy or the kind that goes away with painkillers. It’s chronic. The best way I can explain it is having the worst shin splints ever, permanently. Many Americans live like I do, in silent pain.

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/cassidy...olleyball/

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Did she drop out or was she just not selected?  The three middles chosen were Carly Wopat ('13), Rhamat Alhassan (6'4" rising junior), and Kelsie Payne (6'3" rising junior).  I would guess that Inky is better than either of the last two...maybe her knee isn't all the way back yet?  The roster was released about 10 hrs ago as of this post :)

Roster: http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Fe...Pan-Am-Cup

I'd rather her sit out the summer and be at 100% for a potential title run this fall.

Side note: Kelsie Payne is from Austin, TX, which means that Kansas somehow poached some good vball talent out from under the nose of 2012 natl champion Texas Longhorn coach Jerritt Elliott.

While digging for info, I ran across this ~4 min article from Cassidy Lichtman dated Sept. 2015, which I may have read...but I don't remember doing so.  Good read.

To see me on the court as an outside hitter with the USA National Team, you’d never detect anything out of the ordinary. The truth, though, is that I’ve been in pain every day of my life for over 16 years.

I woke up one morning when I was nine years old with a constant, unrelenting pain in my lower left leg. It has never gone away.

It’s not the kind of pain that disappears after a round of physical therapy or the kind that goes away with painkillers. It’s chronic. The best way I can explain it is having the worst shin splints ever, permanently. Many Americans live like I do, in silent pain.

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/cassidy...olleyball/