The Alice Lloyd College volleyball team just wrapped up what might honestly be the best season the program has ever seen. 

This wasn’t just a good year. This was a program turning the corner, and checking off “firsts” like it was a to-do list.

Let’s start with a look at some of the accomplishments, beginning with the big one: 24 wins. That’s the most in school history. They didn’t just break the previous record of 15, they blew past it. They went undefeated in Mideast Conference play for the first time.

But the history-making didn’t stop there. The Lady Eagles captured their first NCCAA Mideast Conference Championship, punched a non-bid ticket to the National Tournament for the first time and then picked up their first National Tournament win.They even pulled off the program’s first-ever national tournament upset, knocking off the defending champs, the No. 2 seed, like it was nothing.

This team stayed inside the Top 10 in the NCCAA Power Rankings all season, climbing as high as fourth. They also grabbed their first win over NAIA power Georgetown College, and their first wins over NCAA Division II opponents. Somewhere in the middle of all that, they stacked up the program’s first nine-game win streak.

Alice Lloyd finished 5th in the nation. Let that sink in.

Individually, it gets even better.

Libero Gracie Gibson became the first player in program history to earn NCCAA Mideast Conference MVP, and she shattered the single-season digs record with 493.
Middle blocker Christa Amburgey grabbed the program’s first NAIA First Team All-Conference selection and set a new single-season blocks record with 105.
Senior middle blocker Kyleah Ward broke two career records, 801 kills and 274 blocks.
Freshman setter Peyton Taylor led the entire nation in assists with 1,012, breaking the program’s single-season assists record in the process.

All of this comes just two years after the program won only four games. They went 4-29 in 2023,  7-28 in 2024 and now 24-10 with a conference title and a national run. 

Head coach Kayla Moore VanHoose, picked up the program’s first-ever Mideast Coach of the Year award. She earned every bit of it.

This wasn’t just a good season. It was a statement.