TEMPE -- Amid the chaos unfolding on five courts with 20 people hitting a volleyball, Arizona State beach volleyball players and coaches can feel the start of the season approaching and the intensity has risen to an all-time high.
Coach Kristen Glattfelder, in her second year at ASU’s helm, took multitasking to another level, somehow seeing all of her players and offering critique to every court as if she had five sets of eyes. That’s what it takes to turn around a program.
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