At 5-foot-5, Iliana (Castro) Stout doesn’t look like your average college volleyball hitter.
But that didn’t keep the 2003 Lamesa High School graduate from making quite a name for herself, first in high school and the later at Sul Ross State University in Alpine where she earned all-conference honors in the American Southwest Conference.
“It probably helped going to a (NCAA) Division III school but even there most of the time we were up against girls from 5-foot-11 to six feet tall. Even in high school it seemed like pretty much everybody was taller than me. It was always a challenge,” Iliana ...