Natalie Ring profiting off redshirt year spent developing range and ‘finesse’

Natalie Ring has 35 kills this season and is averaging 1.75 kills per set — both more than double what those two stats were first year. (Photo courtesy of Marquette Athletics.)

Long after most all the Marquette players and coaches would shuffle off the court after practice last season, the oratorio of the volleyball’s constant pummeling of the hardwood still echoed throughout the Al McGuire Center for all to hear.

Any passers-by curious enough to investigate the root of the raucous would have been treated to the sight of Natalie Ring working with assistant coach LJ Marx, serve-receiving ball-after-unrelenting-ball and hammering ball-after-unrelenting-ball.

For the pair, it was just another…