SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — Many former Utah Women’s Volleyball athletes are considering leaving the University of Utah after their program was cut.
Elly Collins — a red-shirt senior on what used to be the University of Utah’s Beach Volleyball team — transferred to the university a year ago to join the team. However, the university switched from the Pac-12 to the Big 12, a conference that doesn’t have a lot of beach volleyball teams.
“They just cut our program,” Collins said. “There’s no point in me staying if there’s no volleyball. In the game of volleyball, you have to be decisive… It felt like someone died. So now I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to do with my life since I feel like everything has been turned upside down.”…