The MICDS Volleyball Rams had yet another successful season, despite facing early challenges of a coaching change one week before the season. But the team grew and improved throughout the entire year to turn in an 18-18 record, which was capped off with them retaining their District Championship in a three-set sweep. They are now back-to-back District Champions for the first time in program history. During the season, they also beat local rivals Ladue for the first time in 10 years.
The team was anchored this year by captains Olivia Hill ’26 and Kendall Lay ’28. A few Rams reached some very important milestones this season. May Durrill ’27 recorded her 750th career kill and is only 73 away from 1,000, and Izzy Chao ’28 recorded her 500th career kill. Setter Lay not only achieved her 1,000th career assist, but also set the single-season assists record for the program with 739.
The Rams also had a few players earn postseason awards. Durrill and Chao earned First Team All-District and First Team All-Conference, Lay and Ava Mussey ’29 earned Second Team All-District, Lay earned Second Team All-Conference, Mussey earned Honorable Mention All-Conference, and Audrey Marino ’26 earned Honorable Mention All-District. Gertie Habel ’27 was awarded the team’s Most Improved Award, while Sydney Durr ’26 earned the prestigious Ram Standard Award, which is an award that means a lot to the program because it is given to the player who, every single day, exemplifies and lives out what it means to be an MICDS Ram, and holds high the standard that was asked of them. Things valued were consistency of energy, effort, and support of others.
This year’s senior class of Amalie Bryan ’26, Shritha Devisetty ’26, Durr, Hill, Marino, and Elise Rataj ’26 truly led the way in exhibiting and carrying out the new culture and mentality that the program has instituted, and the impact they had on this program will live long after they are gone. They will be known as the ones who started a strong future for the program.
