Women's Volleyball | 8/13/2025 3:07:00 PM

The Cloud County Community College volleyball team, under third year head coach Hilta Ramos, begins its 2025 season with the annual Black v. Gold Scrimmage on Thursday, August 14 at 6:30 pm in Arley Bryant Gymnasium. For the scrimmage, the T-Birds will compete in the best three-out-of-five sets format.

The scrimmage will be streamed on the T-Bird Sports Network at cloudtbirds.com.

Cloud County finished the 2024 season at 7-23 overall. The T-Birds enter the 2025 season picked to finish ninth in the 2025 Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) Division I preseason poll released on August 13. Cloud County collected 17 points in the poll, coming in behind Colby (61 points), Barton (56 points), Dodge City (56 points), Butler (43 points), Hutchinson (41 points), Garden City (34 points), Seward County (25 points), and Pratt (19 points).

Sophomore outside hitter Grace Rowland ranked second on the team in total kills, kills per set and points per set (2.55) in 2024. In 100 sets, Rowland tallied 231 kills (2.31 kills per set), 111 digs (1.11 digs per set), and 41 blocks (0.41 blocks per set), while finishing with 254.5 points. The native of Andale, Kansas had eight double-digit kill performances, including three matches with 20 or more. She recorded a season-best 22 kills on a .380 attack percentage against Central Community College on October 23, 2024.

Sophomore pin hitter Carlie Carlgren ranked third on the team in total kills and fourth on the team in kills per set last year. Carlgren made 19 starts as a freshman, including 13 starts in KJCCC play, recording 141 kills (1.58 kills per set), 95 digs (1.07 digs per set) and 34 blocks (0.38 blocks per set). Carlgren turned in a season-best 13 kills on a .458 attack percentage in the team's three-set home win over Central Christian College JV on October 23, 2024. She also had a season-high 16 digs in the team's conference home match against Hutchinson on October 19, 2024.

Sophomore Tori Sanders will look to make an impact as a middle blocker and right side hitter after appearing in ten matches and 19 sets in 2024. The native of Kirbyville, Texas ranked third on the team in blocks per set (0.47).

Beatrice Giusti, Berkleigh Curtis and Reachert Chiquin all return in the back row for the T-Birds. Giusti, a sophomore from Rome, Italy, ranked second on the team in total digs and digs per set, and fourth on the team in assists and service aces. Giusti totaled a season-best 30 digs in the team's four-set match vs Pratt Community College on September 28, 2024. Curtis ranked third on the team in total digs and digs per set, and fifth on the team in assists and service aces. Curtis picked up double-digit digs in ten matches last year, including registering a season-best 21 digs against Garden City Community College on October 16, 2024. Chiquin played in 18 matches with one start before being sidelined by an injury last season. Chiquin finished the year with 104 digs (1.82 digs per set) and 17 assists. She recorded four double-digit dig performances, highlighted by a season-high 19 digs against Central Community College on August 28, 2024.

Addyson Ogle and Julieanne Sandoval are back after redshirting in 2024. Ogle had an accomplished high school career at Central Plains High School in Claflin, Kansas. She's expected to split time as a setter and defensive specialist. Sandoval, a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, will add depth at the middle blocker position.

Six of the 14 players on the 2025 roster are newcomers.

Sophomore outside hitter Iza Caroline da Silva is the lone transfer the T-Birds brought in for 2025. da Silva appeared in 25 matches and 76 sets at New Mexico Junior College, averaging 1.95 kills per set and 0.45 blocks per set in 2024. da Silva posted a career-high 13 kills against both Panola College and Navarro College. She totaled 148 kills her freshman season.

In addition to da Silva, five freshmen have joined the fold. Kenadie Casanova (5'9", Pin Hitter), Brooke Lougheed (5'6", Setter), Ylvie Schmid (5'7", Setter), Elizabeth Schuster (6'0", Middle Hitter) and Zoey Sudbeck (5'8", Middle Blocker) have joined the T-Birds this fall.

Cloud County will participate in the 2025 KJCCC Scrimmages, hosted by Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas. The T-Birds will play three matches against KJCCC Division 2 schools. Cloud County will take on Highland Community College at 10 am on August 16, followed by Independence at 11 am and Allen Community College at 2 pm.

Cloud County will take on Kansas Wesleyan University JV in the team's final preseason scrimmage on Tuesday, August 19 at 6:30 pm at Mabee Arena in Salina, Kansas.

The T-Birds will begin the season in the 2025 Wrangler Ranger Round Up, co-hosted by Ranger College and Cisco College on August 22-23. Two matches will be played each day. Cloud County will face Panola College on Friday, August 22 at 9 am and Ranger College at 1 pm inside Ron Butler Gymnasium in Ranger, Texas. To cap off the event, the T-Birds will play Dallas College Mountain View on Saturday, August 23 at 11 am and Blinn College at 3 pm. Both matches will be played in Cisco College Gymnasium in Cisco, Texas.

Cloud County has five regular-season matches scheduled against teams that qualified for the 2024 NJCAA Division I National Tournament, including its opening weekend match against Blinn College.