BILLINGS — It might not have been a traditional birthday gift or Happy Birthday wish, but Billings Senior’s Emma Ormsby will long remember her 16th birthday.

That’s the day her future collegiate team, the Colgate University (New York) Raiders, made an offer the Broncs’ volleyball standout couldn’t turn down.

On June 22, Ormsby was in Orlando, Florida, for the AAU national volleyball tournament with her Big Sky Volleyball Club teammates.

Only a few days prior the AAU tournament, Ormsby first became aware of the Colgate volleyball program. “They just texted me on June 15 and kind of wrote a little bit about their program. And I was like, ‘Oh, wow, OK, that sounds great. I’ll call them.' And the more I talked with them, kind of getting to know the coaches it just intrigued me more and more

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