Louisville volleyball’s season started and ended at the KFC Yum! Center. And, despite the loss Sunday against Penn State, what a journey it was.

The Cardinals, who were without All-American Anna DeBeer, fell in four sets to the Nittany Lions in the title game.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — What’s remarkable is not that two women are coaching for the national championship and one will win a title for the first time in the 44 years of NCAA women’s volleyball. It’s remarkable that these women, Katie Schumacher-Cawley and Dani Busboom Kelly, are the two doing it. Because they are the ideal representatives.