Brooks: Schroeder, Buffs On Way To Making Their Point

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BOULDER – In the midst of what would be the Colorado volleyball program’s most successful home stretch in a long, long time, Liz Kritza posed a couple of questions last weekend to her players: “Do you want to be Colorado? Or, Colorado!”

If you need a translation/clarification, allow outside hitter Kerra Schroeder: “Do you want to be Colorado with a question mark, or Colorado with an exclamation point?”

Good questions; very, very pertinent questions. Schroeder, a fifth-year senior, has been around long enough to vividly recall CU not even belonging in high-profile volleyball conversations, much less debating the appropriate punctuation.

As she told me Monday before going to practice at the Coors Events Center, “We’ve been waiting for this moment to shock everyone . . . and to tell you the truth, I’ve been waiting for four years. Yeah, it’s been a long time.”

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