La Grange Volleyball’s Five Seniors Ready for Successful Final Season
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The seniors members of the La Grange volleyball team this season are, from left to right: Faith Greenwood, Kyla Colon, Kylie Trlicek, Clara Bundick and Carley Ulrich. They are seated in a pair of iconic yellow chairs that local shoppers may recognize from the store Bundick’s mother owns – Julie B, on the courthouse square. Photo by Jeff Wick
New La Grange volleyball coach Ryan O’Neal has inherited a very experienced team. That could bode well for the Lady Leps hopes of making a long postseason run.
Of nearly a dozen returning varsity players from last year, five are seniors – Carley Ulrich, Kylie Trlicek, Faith Greenwood, Clara Bundick and Kyla Colon.
“The best teams are player- led and the communication by these seniors has been excellent,” O’Neal said. “They have been really enthusiastic and really stepping up as leaders.”
We’re proud to honor these five seniors as this week’s Fayette County Record Athletes of the Week.
Here’s some highlights from our interviews with all five: Ulrich has been on the Lady Leps’ varsity since she was a freshman.
“It hasn’t felt like four years,” Ulrich said.
She said her favorite memories on varsity have been the tournaments.
“They really give us time to get used to each other and create great memories,” Ulrich said.
Ulrich said her individual goal for this season is to get to the 1,000-career kill mark.
“I think I have 100-something left,” she said.
She said her team goal is for the Lady Leps to make it to the third round of the playoffs.
Kylie Trlicek is one of LHS’ best all-around athletes, excelling at multiple sports.
She said she’s noticed some great things from the Lady Leps in the early going this season “I feel like everyone on the team is supportive and I think that’s something that’s really going to help us this year,” Trlicek said.
“Everybody roots for each other, we’re very resilient and everyone works hard and has good attitudes.”
Faith Greenwood enters her third season on the Lady Leps varsity and is excited about her senior season that has come all-too-soon.
“It’s kind of a surreal feeling. I feel like I was just a freshman and here I am today,” Greenwood said. “Coach O’Neal has brought a lot to this program. I feel the energy and I can’t wait to play for him.”
Kyla Colon said there’s excitement around this new stage of Lady Leps volleyball.
“They (the first few workouts of the season) have been really interesting, getting used to the new environment of a new coach,” Colon said. “It’s been rewarding. It will be exciting to see where this team goes.
“It feels great to be a senior, and I’m ready to see what comes next.”
Clara Bundick shares that same mix of emotions going into her senior year.
But she’s excited to go through it with these fellow seniors she’s grown up with.
“It’s new, it’s scary, but it’s exciting though,” said Bundick. “We’re really close. I feel like we’ve bonded a lot over the past four years.”