POCATELLO — Get to a Pocatello volleyball game in time to watch warmups, and you’ll see Abby Lusk rising high above the net to launch absolute rockets to the floor.

It may be difficult, but avert your gaze from the 6-foot-2 senior to her opponents at the other end of the court, and you’ll see them snickering and turning away from Lusk to joke with each other. And when the game starts, those same girls, oftentimes, don’t seem all that confident in digging those same missiles from the Thunder’s All-State outside hitter.

“She’ll hit it, and it’s literally to the player, but it has so much power that they flinch and it goes off of them, just because of the power and domination that she has,” Pocatello head volleyball coach Paige Leatham said after her team’s two-win Tuesday.

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