WATCH: Craig Skinner's Coaching Tree

The SEC Volleyball Tournament returns this weekend for the first time in 20 years. Coaches, staffers, players and fans from all across the league are descending upon Savannah, Georgia, dreaming of hoisting the reimagined conference tournament trophy.

For Craig Skinner, the weekend may also feel a bit like a family reunion.

Through his 21 years at the helm of the Kentucky volleyball program, Skinner has amassed quite the resume. The nine-time SEC regular season champion and seven-time SEC Coach of the Year brought the conference its first National Championship in 2020-21; he's the program's all-time winningest coach and has taken the Cats to the NCAA Tournament in each of the past 20 season.

But he still remembers day one.

"I’ll never forget: we got

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