Growing up for Lincoln-Way East’s Brooklyn Ritter , it was volleyball, volleyball and more volleyball.

Her dad, Ken , is a St. Laurence graduate who played club volleyball while building a College Baseball Hall of Fame career at North Central in Naperville. Her mother, Maureen , maiden name O’Keefe, played volleyball at Mother McAuley and won a state championship in 1994.

Brooklyn’s six siblings, including a shortstop for the Colorado Rockies who was taken in the fourth round of the 2022 MLB draft, also played volleyball during family functions. And that’s not all.

“All my aunts and uncles played,” Brooklyn said. “At family parties, we would play with all of the cousins. I grew up in it.”

Ritter, a Southwest Missouri State-bound senior setter, has also grown up as a player — beco

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