If there is one thing about Kansas State volleyball coach Suzie Fritz, she tells it like it is.

After dropping three matches to ranked opponents in the Chevron Rainbow Wahine Invitational in Hawaii last weekend, the Kansas State volleyball team returns to face South Dakota in its home opener tonight.

HONOLULU — The Kansas State volleyball team showed signs of finding its offense against No. 22 San Diego in its final match of the Chevron Rainbow Wahine Invitational, but Amy Mahinalani DeGroot was too much.

The Kansas State volleyball team begins its 2010 season Friday afternoon in Honolulu as it makes an appearance in the Chevron Rainbow Wahine Invitational.

As the 2010 volleyball season looms closer, there lies little doubt as to who the leaders of this Kansas State team will be.

When looking back at the 2009 season for the Kansas State volleyball team, there's one thing that stands out to coach Suzie Fritz — progression.

The Kansas State volleyball team packed its bags and set out to Europe on Monday.

Kansas State volleyball coach Suzie Fritz has brought a portion of her incoming class for the 2010 season on campus already for the spring semester. A trio of freshman graduated high school early and has enrolled in classes at K-State to begin the transition to college volleyball and workout with the team during spring practices.

LUBBOCK, Texas — The Kansas State volleyball team closed its season with a win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders on Saturday and had strong performances from both seniors Kelsey Chipman and Soriana Pacheco in the final match as Wildcats.

The Kansas State Wildcats put together a strong defensive effort to give the No. 8 Nebraska Cornhuskers a challenge on Wednesday night before falling in three sets 30-32, 24-26, 22-25. K-State (1118, 5-19 Big 12) had an impressive 17 blocks in the loss to slow Nebraska's (22-6, 15-4) attack and give the Wildcats a chance for the upset.