First-year setter Luanna Markus ‘sets’ up front row rodeo

Photo by Marquette Athletics Markus, the two-time Big East Setter of the Week, leads the team with 514 assists. It was within Tani Juric’s first week in the U.S. when she and her new teammates went to a rodeo. For the first-year opposite hitter, the event in Edgerton, Wisconsin, felt almost surreal. She had only ever seen rodeos on TV. But what did this team trip have anything to do with volleyball? For Juric, it’s where she felt the initial spark of a connection with her teammates. A connection that would later be relied on inside the Al McGuire Center…