This year’s NCAA volleyball tournament was an unexpected family reunion for the Fry clan.
Both Sam Fry, a senior at Notre Dame, and Jordan Fry, a redshirt freshman at Kentucky, were making their first NCAA tournament appearances. As fate would have it, the sisters’ teams were sent to the same subregional, hosted by the Wildcats in Lexington.
The host team entered the postseason ranked fourth in the nation in RPI. They were a lock to make the tournament with a 29-4 record. The younger Fry saw minimal action in her first season of eligibility, but learned behind a veteran team.