She’s bigger, faster, stronger. And she jumps higher.

Those are just some of the ways that junior setter Peyton Heatherly has changed since her freshman season for Mother McAuley.

However, Heatherly has cut back on one thing. She doesn’t cry so much.

“Ha-ha … yeah, I think my freshman year I was, like, very nervous,” she said. “I would always feel like I wasn’t playing up to my full potential. I was so young and everyone around me was so good.

“Any time coach ( Jen DeJarld ) would talk to me, I’d get so nervous and I’d start crying.”

That year, Heatherly set from start to finish as the Mighty Macs won the 2023 Class 4A state title.

Stay tuned for more.

Heatherly moved closer to a career milestone Thursday night for host McAuley in a 20-25, 25-23, 25-16 loss to Assumption of Kent

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