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Wisconsin volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield and players MJ Hammill, Izzy Ashburn and Sarah Franklin talk about what they will remember most from this season, which ended with a loss to Texas in the national semifinals.
University of Wisconsin recruit Charlie Fuerbringer has been named the National Girls Volleyball Athlete of the Year by the National High School Coaches Association, it was announced Wednesday.
Fuerbringer, a 5-foot-11 setter from Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, California, will join the Badgers as part of the 2024 recruiting class. She is expected to take over the setting duties, with the departure of Izzy Ashburn and MJ Hammill, the Badgers’ setters the past two seasons.
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Fuerbringer is ranked as the No. 2 prospect in the 2024 class by Prep Dig and the No. 1 setter by PrepVolleyball.com.
Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield equated her to the coveted five-tool player in baseball.
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“There’s not a lot of volleyball players, and most definitely setters, that have so many skill sets that they can impact the game in a lot of different ways,” Sheffield said last month. “She’s a really good server, she’s an elite defensive player, a very good blocker, a very skilled setter. She can attack very well. She’s deceptive. She reads the game. She’s got a lot of tools for her age that she brings to the equation, and she’s hungry enough that she wants to keep getting better. That was a big day when she committed.”
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Fuerbringer competed with Team USA volleyball’s U19 team at the world championships in Croatia over the summer, helping the team win a gold medal.
Fuerbringer comes from a family devoted to volleyball. Her mother, Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer, was an All-American setter at Long Beach State who led the 49ers to the NCAA championship in 1993, beating Penn State in the finals held at the UW Field House. Her father, Matt Fuerbringer, was a four-time All-American at Stanford, where he is the career leader in kills and was a member of the 1997 national champions. He is an assistant coach for the U.S. Men’s National Team. They are club directors at Mizuno Long Beach, the club where Charlie plays.
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