The News-Gazette · Aug 16, 2016
Illini ready to move past Sweet 16
CHAMPAIGN — McKenna Kelsay could be the last Illinois volleyball player to wear No. 16 if only for the fact Illini coach Kevin Hambly is fed up with that number.
In seven years leading the Illini, six of Hambly’s teams have reached the Sweet 16.
The 2011 season yielded a national runner-up finish — something else Hambly isn’t overly thrilled about. The other five teams advanced no further than the regional semifinals.
“Sixteen, the number, I’m really considering getting rid of it on our jerseys,” Hambly said Tuesday with enough conviction it might not have been in jest. “Kenna has it now, and she’s a senior. She’s leaving. It may go away.”