There’s no hiding Molly Phillips. After all, she is 6-foot-4.
But throughout her career, she’s always been the Texas volleyball X factor, the player who maybe you simply didn’t notice as much over the past four years, the silent assassion who has played alongside the likes of All-Americans Logan Eggleston and Brionne Butler and Skylar Fields and Asjia O’Neal.
“She doesn’t get enough credit,” O’Neal said. “She carries that well and still works extremely hard and doesn’t let it get to her. I think she deserves way more flowers than she gets. I love having her as a teammate.”
That’s not lost on coach Jerritt Elliott.
“I think there are players on each team that aren’t heavily scouted or undervalued in the opponents’ scouting report at times, and Molly’s one of those players that if you don’t pay attention to her, she can really hurt you,” Elliott said.
“And she’s been that way for a long time.”
The numbers prove it. As Texas went 28-1 last season and 15-1 in the Big 12, en route to winning the NCAA championship, there was the aforementioned Eggleston, the VolleyballMag.com two-time national player of the year…
