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Two of Indiana’s most decorated volleyball players in the Class of 2028 have found their college homes — and the programs that landed them should feel very good about what’s coming.
Chloe Ritchie | Libero/DS | Yorktown | Louisville
Chloe Ritchie was named to the 2026 JVA Girls All-National Team — one of the most prestigious individual honors in club volleyball — and she earned it playing up in the 17s age division with Munciana Volleyball while still a sophomore at Yorktown High School. The 5-foot-7 libero is a six-rotation outside hitter at the high school level who projects as a defensive specialist at the next level — the kind of versatile, high-IQ back-row player that programs like Louisville build their defensive identity around.
Louisville is coming off one of the most celebrated eras in program history under head coach Dani Busboom Kelly, who built the Cardinals into a consistent Final Four contender and national title challenger. Ritchie fits the mold of the defensive anchors that program has developed — competitive, vocal, technically sound, and hungry to impact both sides of the floor. She grows up in a volleyball family and has been playing since age six. That background tends to produce players who understand the game at a level that physical tools alone can’t replicate.
Yorktown gets a significant recruiting moment with this commitment — a program producing a Power Four volleyball commit in the Class of 2028 is a statement about the level of development happening in Madison County.
Cala Haffner | Libero | Carroll (Fort Wayne) | Texas
Prep Dig describes Haffner as the first libero off the board in Indiana’s Class of 2028 — a two-time defending 4A state champion whose experience representing the United States at the international level has already proven she can compete beyond the high school game. The gap between her and other defenders from Indiana in this class is wide — not many players in any Indiana class play at Cala’s level.
She is ranked No. 1 in Indiana’s Class of 2028 by Prep Dig — and the numbers back up the reputation. Solid in serve receive, anticipatory on defense, and described by evaluators as someone who acts as another coach on the floor, Haffner controls matches through the first contact in ways that change what opposing offenses can do. Teams that serve to her tend to regret it.
Texas is a program that competes for national championships annually under head coach Jerritt Elliott — consistently one of the top programs in the country and a perennial Big 12 and NCAA tournament force. Landing the top-ranked libero in Indiana’s 2028 class is exactly the kind of high school recruiting win that keeps the Longhorns stocked at a position that defines their defensive system.
Carroll’s pipeline to the highest level of college volleyball continues. Bailey Sinish, Carroll’s Class of 2026 libero, is currently the top-ranked player in Indiana in her class by Prep Dig — and now Haffner follows as the top 2028 name at the same position from the same program. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a program.
Indiana volleyball continues to export elite talent at the highest level. Two programs — one in Fort Wayne, one in Muncie — produced two of the most coveted defenders in the 2028 class. Louisville and Texas are better for it.
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