SHEPHERD — High expectations surround the Shepherd volleyball team in 2025.

The Fillies are loaded with upperclassmen, including seven seniors that have spent all four years under head coach Kamber Kelly.

“Whether it's at practice, a game, in the classroom, we just push each other," senior Karli Goodell said. "We're honest with each other. That's a really big thing. We're not afraid to call each other out, but it's not taken personally. That team atmosphere really makes us grow."

Among those senior Fillies are a handful of softball players that, last we saw them, were winning the program’s first state championship. That experience in the spring has certainly carried confidence forward.

“They finally got a taste, right? You have a few girls on this team that were a part of that, juniors

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