2025 Season Outlook: Women's Volleyball

By: Mike Hogan, Athletics Communications Coordinator

Abel Austin

Women's Volleyball | 8/27/2025 5:00:00 PM

PITTSFORD, N.Y. – With a roster that features three All-Americans and five All-Empire 8 honorees, the St. John Fisher women's volleyball team enters the 2025 season loaded to make another run at the NCAA Tournament.

The Cardinals begin the new year with matches against Ithaca, Rochester and John Carroll in the Bomber Invite Friday and Saturday. Fisher will face a nationally ranked team in host Ithaca, No. 18 in the first American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) poll of the season, at 3 p.m. Friday to open the tournament.

Read more about the 2025 Cardinals below:

2025 Fisher Quick Facts

Head Coach: Kelly Greapentrog (17th season at St. John Fisher)

Record: 292-266 (.523) career, 271-215 (.558) at Fisher, 86-31 (.735) in Empire 8 Conference regular-season games.

2024 In Review: The Cardinals recorded their seventh 20-plus win season under Greapentrog last season with a 21-9 mark. After posting a 9-2 record in Empire 8 regular-season games, they dominated the conference tournament as the No. 2 seed, knocking off Geneseo (3-1), Brockport (3-1) and East Avenue rival Nazareth (3-0) to punch their ticket to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the sixth time in program history. Fisher had the most all-conference (5), all-region (3) and All-America (2) honorees in the Empire 8.

Players To Watch

Kiera Hartpence (Sr., Libero) – Named Empire 8 Libero of the Year in 2023, Hartpence has amassed more than 350 digs in each of her first three collegiate seasons. She recorded a career-high 445 of them in 2024 as she earned All-E8 honors for a second consecutive season.

Lydia Fraser (So., OH) – Fraser enjoyed an outstanding freshman season in 2024, slamming 333 kills to go along with a team-high 47 service aces and 21 total blocks. She took home the E8 Rookie of the Year award and earned second-team All-Region and honorable mention All-America honors from the AVCA.

Reilly Morrow (Sr., S) – Morrow, a two-time second-team All-Empire 8 selection, has tallied more than 800 assists in back-to-back seasons with 884 in 2023 and 829 in 2024. She averaged a career-best 9.11 assists per set last season. Morrow has also amassed 455 digs, 122 kills, 96 service aces and 55 total blocks over the last three years.

Kaylene Noble (Jr., OH) – One of the top players in the region since her freshman year, Noble enters her third collegiate season with nearly 700 career kills. Last season, she pounded a career-best 354 of them en route to second-team All-Empire 8 and AVCA All-Region honorable mention honors. She won the E8 Player and Rookie of the Year awards and was named an honorable mention All-American by the AVCA as a freshman.

Ana Gutman (Jr., MB) – Gutman, a two-time first-team All-Empire 8 selection, enters the year with 439 kills and a .362 hitting percentage. In 2024, she slammed 243 kills while hitting a gaudy .390 – the highest mark by an Empire 8 player since Nazareth's Maria Allocco hit .420 in 2014. The AVCA honorable mention All-American and first-team All-Region honoree also led the Cardinals with 58 total blocks. Gutman earned Empire 8 MVP honors after slamming 38 kills with a .516 hitting percentage over three matches in the conference tournament. She added 10 blocks across those contests, including four in the championship against Nazareth.

Numbers To Know

2 – The Cardinals have had the Empire 8 Rookie of the Year honoree in back-to-back seasons (Noble and Fraser).

3 – The Cardinals have just three Empire 8 losses (two regular season, one postseason) since the 2020-21 season. They have 55 conference wins in that span.

3 – The Cardinals have three AVCA All-Americans on their roster — Fraser, Gutman and Noble.

4 – Fisher has won more than 20 matches in four of the last six seasons.

5 – The Cardinals have won the Empire 8 in five of the last six seasons.

6 – The Cardinals are chasing the sixth Empire 8 title in program history, which would tie them with Ithaca for the second most in conference history.

7 – The Cardinals have claimed at least one major E8 award – Player of the Year, Libero of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year or Tournament MVP – in seven straight seasons.

8 – Greapentrog needs eight more victories to reach 300 for her career.

15 – Gutman hit .400 or better in 15 of the 29 matches in which she played last season.

16 – The Cardinals return almost all of their production from last season, with 16 players returning from the 2024 team. For example, they return 93% of their kills from 2024 (1,249 of 1,329) and 96% of their digs (1,596 of 1,646).

.735 – The Cardinals have a .735 winning percentage in Empire 8 regular-season games under Greapentrog.

1,350 – Hartpence needs 136 more digs to reach 1,350 for her career and pass Colleen Helak for 10th in program history.

1,819 – Morrow enters the season ninth in program history with 1,819 career assists. With a third consecutive 800-plus assist season, she would pass Rebecca Hay (2017-20) for fifth all-time.