National champion volleyball player returns home to host camp
Kentucky's Alli Stumler held a volleyball camp on Saturday at her alma mater
Kentucky's Alli Stumler held a volleyball camp on Saturday at her alma mater
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.