The volleyball program has announced a minor update for the spring schedule.

The match scheduled for March 28th is being moved. It was previously scheduled to be played at Elizabethtown High School, but will now be played at Central Hardin High School. Etown is in Hardin County, so this isn’t a massive move, just the other side of Etown, and while it’s not exactly a one-stoplight town, it’s not huge either.

The match also now has a start time, 7:30, that I don’t believe had been posted previously.

Coach Meske posted a story on Instagram that showed a bit of an improvement to the Cards practice setup.

The image, included below, shows L&N Federal Credit Union Arena set up in its practice arrangement. In the practice arrangement, UofL volleyball sets up two courts in LNFCU. They do this by retracting the bulk of the seating, and in the extra space provided set up two courts arranged perpendicularly to their “Gameday” orientation.

In the image, the nearer court is the black bordered Teraflex court that “lives” at LNFCU arena, but the far court has the red bordered Teraflex court that typically “lives” at the KFC Yum! Center.

Obviously, these court surfaces are able to be taken up and put down in different places and in different orientations, and while it’s not a huge amount of effort to do so, it’s not trivial either. Add in the transport of the court between campus and the KFC Yum! Center downtown, and Dan quite justifiably gave a shoutout to the people that manage the two facilities, specifically the main guy in charge of these two facilities, long time UofL Athletics employee Brent Lampkin.

Will the red bordered Teraflex be used during the spring schedule? It possibly could be transported over to Freedom Hall for the Tennessee match, and it might get transported to Elizabethtown for the match against Vanderbilt at Etown High School. I suspect it will be at neither, however. I would expect the Vanderbilt match to use whatever surface Etown High School has available, probably hardwood, and the Freedom Hall event is part of the JVA World Challenge club tournament event, and JVA will likely have their own surfaces put down on which Louisville and Tennessee will play. The spring match against Kentucky is at LNFCU and would presumably use the black bordered Teraflex that is normally used at LNFCU.

Molly Rae Wilson announced that she would be joining the Cards for her fifth year of eligibility.

Wilson is a 5‘11” setter who previously played three years at the University of Washington in the Big10 Conference. She red-shirted her freshman year, so this will be her final year of overall eligibility.

The Cards list three setters on the current roster, although in the spring, teams frequently will not update online rosters in a timely fashion. That being said, gocards.com has added Molly Wilson to the roster, while still having Elle Glock and Nayelis Cabello on the roster.

This is significant as there has been some amount of speculation that, barring any new transfers, Cabello would likely be the starting starter for the Cards in the fall, with Glock not seeing much playing time. That has also triggered speculation that Glock may transfer, or otherwise choose not to return to play with the Cards in the fall. There has been no public comment from the volleyball program concerning this, and with Wilson, Cabello, and Glock all currently listed on the roster, it would tend to indicate a Glock return.

There is still considerable time, including another general transfer portal window in May, where Glock, or anyone else, could make a decision to transfer to another team, or just not return for the Cards.

Volleyball is allowed to play four dates of inter-collegiate competition for a spring schedule. Of course, the competition is exhibition and doesn’t get recorded for any official stats.

Louisville volleyball will take advantage of all four dates of play for the 2025 spring season.

They will start off with a match against Vanderbilt on March 28th. The Commodores will play their first official season of play in fall, so this will be a good warm-up for them. Whitman Czajkowski was listed as “Technical Coordinator/Sports Statistician” for the UofL volleyball squad until the end of the 2024 season. He has taken a role with Vanderbilt’s volleyball program as the Director of Technology and Analytics. This match will be in Elizabethtown, at Elizabethtown High School.

The Cards will continue on the road, with a trip to Bloomington, IN to play Indiana University on April 5th.

Louisville will finish the spring season in Louisville with a match on April 12th at Freedom hall against Tennessee. This is scheduled in conjunction with the JVA Qualifier, a large club volleyball tournament held at the Fairgrounds every year, so expect a large crowd.

And finally, as is tradition, the Cardinals and the Wildcats will tangle once again on April 18th at L&N Federal Credit Union Arena. No announcement yet if there will be tickets for this event, even if they are zero dollar, but I wouldn’t be surprised given the limited seating at LNFCU.