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From starting at the bottom of the volleyball world. To gaining much recognition over the past two years. Tommy Looper even earned 2nd team all conference honors last year. Even with the season ending short due to covid.

Tommy looper is a Morningside Men’s Volleyball player who has only been playing college volleyball for 4 years. . He did not starting playing volleyball until he went to his Junior College. Volleyball was not even on his mind when he has in Junior college. He first started out as a basketball player.

During one of the basketball teams workouts the Men’s volleyball coach saw Tommy. He decided to see if he wanted to play volleyball, his athletic ability was on par with most of his athletics. In terms of conditioning and his ability to jump while also being left handed where all benefits that help him. He offered Tommy a chance to play for the team if he went to attend one of the open gym times during the week. Tommy decided to take the opportunity to go see what volleyball was about. At first he did not like how hard the drills where for a newbie. He had no ball control to keep the ball up in the air for a long time. Asking Derek Jones another mens volleyball player said ” It was hard for me too when I was in high school to think he had to do this in his second year in college. I could only imagine.”

Even if he had a hard time controlling the ball. It did not take long for him to master it. During his two year’s at his Junior College he decided that he wanted to continue to play. He put videos of himself online playing at his Junior College to see if he can get any offers to play more. Lucky for him he got an offer from Morningside College to come play in 2018. His first year playing a Morningside went well. There were very few middle blockers that where left handed. It gave him and advantage in the middle when hitting making it harder to block him. Talking to Kai a Morningside mens Volleyball said ” when I would play against him in practice he was hard to read where he would hit it because he is left handed.”

He really did not hit his stride of playing until his second year of playing at Morningside. This would have been his junior year at Morningside. He lead his team in hitting percentage at .300 which is very effected from a volleyball stated point. Even though his Junior year was cut off short because of Covid he did manage to get second team all conference for the amount of work he did.

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