Story by Clarissa Young
It took a leap of faith, literally, to get volleyball team setter Kayla Ostrom to turn her back on a Big 10 offer and come to Lipscomb.
After playing softball and volleyball simultaneously from fourth-grade into her high school years, Ostrom decided to settle in on volleyball after she fell in love with the setter position.
The Indiana native decided she wanted to continue her career in college and at first signed with Purdue University, one of the big schools in her home state.
But that’s when she learned about Lipscomb University and the volleyball team’s need for a solid setter.
“I was committed (to Purdue) up until halfway through my senior year when I decided to take a leap of faith,” Ostrom said. “So I recommitted and it turned out Lipscomb — their setter had left and needed to fill their position.”
Kayla, a junior at studying food systems management said she plans to let her faith guide her after graduation, when she said she wants to work on an MBA in non-profit and ministry work.
And she knows her decision to come to Lipscomb was the right one as she plans for her future.
“God opened the door for me to come here and it couldn’t have been better,” she said.
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