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National champion volleyball player returns home to host camp

Kentucky's Alli Stumler held a volleyball camp on Saturday at her alma mater

National champion volleyball player returns home to host camp

Kentucky's Alli Stumler held a volleyball camp on Saturday at her alma mater

HITTER ALI STUMBLER RETURNED HOME SATURDAY HOSTING A CAMP FOR KIDS AT HER ALMA MERAT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF INDIANA THE RECENT NCAA CHANGES REGARDING NAME IMAGE LIKENESS HELPED CLEAR THE WAY FOR TSHI CAMP. I WAS THINKING LIKE WHAT BETTER WAY TO KIND OF TAKE LIKE A HUGE PART OF WHO I AM BACK HOME. SO THE COMMUNITY THAT I LEOV SO MUCH THE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY COMMUNITY LOVES HER RIGHT BACK PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE. UYO LOOK IN THE GYM IN THE HALLWAYS YOU SEE STUMBLERS. ACCOMPLISHMENTS WHICH INCLUDES BEING PART OF THE SCHOOL’S 2015 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM TO BE ABLE TO YOU KNOW HAVE FOUR BA NNERS AND THEN ONE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. IT’S JUST UNBELIEVABLE TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF STARTED THAT AND THE YEAR BEFORE ME BEFORE I GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL. THEY STARTED THAT SO REALLY COOL. JUST AWESOME TO COME BACK AND JUST SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE JUST A LITTLE PIECE OF IT THE SUCCESS FOR STUMBLER DID NOT STOP IN HIGH SCHOOL THOUGH. SHE WAS A BIG REASON WHY THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS CAPTURED THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPN I APRIL, EVERY LITTLE GIRL’S DREAM IS TO COMPETE IN COLLEGE. IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL TO WIN THE NCAA TROPHY? SO IT’S REALLY COOL TO BE A PART OF THAT AND JUST KDIN OF GIVE THEM ADVICE AND SITE THAT I HAVE THAT I’VE HAD TO GO THROUGH. STUMBLER TAUGHT THIRD THROUGH FIFTH GRADERS IN THE MORNING BEFORE WORKING WITH THE OLDER KIDSN I THE AFTERNOON AND ALSO SOME OF HER UK TEAMMATES HOSTED A SEPARATE CAMP IN LOUISVILLE
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National champion volleyball player returns home to host camp

Kentucky's Alli Stumler held a volleyball camp on Saturday at her alma mater

University of Kentucky outside hitter Alli Stumler returned home Saturday, hosting a camp for kids at her alma mater, Christian Academy of Indiana. The recent NCAA changes involving name, image and likeness helped clear the way for this camp."I was thinking 'What better way to kind of take a huge part of who I am back home to the community that I love so much,'" said Stumler. The CAI community loves her right back. Pretty much everywhere you look in the gym and the hallway, you see Stumler's accomplishments, which include being part of the school's 2015 IHSAA Volleyball State Championship Class A team. "To be able to have four banners and then one state championship, it's just unbelievable to say that," said Stumler. "We kind of started that. The year before me, before I got to high school, they started that. So, really cool. Just awesome to come back and just say that we were just a little piece of it."The success for Stumler did not stop in high school though. She was a big reason the Kentucky Wildcats won the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship in April."Every little girls' dream is to compete in college, compete at the highest level," said Stumler. "To win the NCAA trophy. So, it's really cool to be a part of that and just give them advice, insight that I have that I've had to go through."Stumler taught third through fifth graders in the morning before working with older kids in the afternoon. Some of her UK teammates meanwhile hosted a separate volleyball camp in the Louisville area on Saturday as well.

University of Kentucky outside hitter Alli Stumler returned home Saturday, hosting a camp for kids at her alma mater, Christian Academy of Indiana.

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The recent NCAA changes involving name, image and likeness helped clear the way for this camp.

"I was thinking 'What better way to kind of take a huge part of who I am back home to the community that I love so much,'" said Stumler.

The CAI community loves her right back. Pretty much everywhere you look in the gym and the hallway, you see Stumler's accomplishments, which include being part of the school's 2015 IHSAA Volleyball State Championship Class A team.

"To be able to have four banners and then one state championship, it's just unbelievable to say that," said Stumler. "We kind of started that. The year before me, before I got to high school, they started that. So, really cool. Just awesome to come back and just say that we were just a little piece of it."

The success for Stumler did not stop in high school though.

She was a big reason the Kentucky Wildcats won the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship in April.

"Every little girls' dream is to compete in college, compete at the highest level," said Stumler. "To win the NCAA trophy. So, it's really cool to be a part of that and just give them advice, insight that I have that I've had to go through."

Stumler taught third through fifth graders in the morning before working with older kids in the afternoon.

Some of her UK teammates meanwhile hosted a separate volleyball camp in the Louisville area on Saturday as well.