Patterson setting up big season for UNLV volleyball

An All-Mountain West performer as a freshman, Alexis Patterson didn’t make the first team last season.

It wasn’t all her fault because UNLV underwent numerous lineup changes, and as a setter, that made life especially challenging.

But Patterson also took ownership regarding her part on the team, and she went home over the summer to the Phoenix area and committed to not only follow the team’s conditioning schedule, but changed her eating habits.

Gone were her loves of chocolate and coffee with sugar as well as the typical three meals a day, and in were the smaller five to six meals.

“All those things coming together is what helped me to be in the best shape that I could possibly be in,”…