Senior defensive specialist Gabbi Martinez played basketball and tennis with her two sisters in Austin, Texas, before deciding to focus her time solely on volleyball.
Martinez and her sisters played a variety of sports growing up. Her older sister participated in swimming and her other sister ran on the cross country team.
“I played a bunch of sports when I was younger. I have two older sisters, and we all did, and I was the best at volleyball from the start,” Martinez said. “I stopped playing basketball and the place I played tennis at was kind of far away, and so volleyball is just what I got into and what I was best at from a young age.