TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Whether she wanted it or not, Laura Gross (wearing No. 12 for the Sycamores) was destined for a leadership position on Indiana State's Volleyball team. As she wraps up her senior season Saturday at ISU Arena, she will soon be entering a true leadership laboratory, one that's just a family thing.
After spending two years at Parkland (Community) College, Gross chose to play for the Sycamores. It was a bold choice considering that, at the time, Indiana State did not have a head coach. Traci Dahl-Skinner had been dismissed as head coach in December 2016 and Lindsay Allman wouldn't be hired until early February of the next year, over a month after Gross had been at the school's Terre Haute campus.