Arizona volleyball has a produced a long line of dominant outside hitters, and junior Paige Whipple is ready to carry the torch.
“I’m excited to take on this role,” she said Thursday, a day before the 2019 opener. “Coming into the program, when they were recruiting me as a sophomore in high school, they were like, ‘OK, we’ve had Madi Kingdon, we now have Kalei (Mau), we have Kendra (Dahlke). And so they have always seen me as being the person who’s going to step into that role before I even got into the program.