The Cathedral Fighting Irish volleyball team hosted the Carmel Greyhounds on Senior Night at the Welch Activity Center on Tuesday, October 1. The evening began as the Cathedral faithful recognized and honored six Senior volleyball players and their parents for their commitment and dedication to Cathedral Lady Irish volleyball. Seniors Mia Dittoe, Jami Hansen, Mae Hedrick, Anna Neale, Jojo Suppiger, and Anna Trieloff were escorted by their parents onto the court as their memories of Cathedral Volleyball and future plans were shared. The first set wa...

The Cathedral Lady Irish volleyball team faced off against cross-town rival Roncalli Lady Rebels on Tuesday, September 3, in a packed Roncalli High School gymnasium. The match was a back-and-forth affair which saw the Lady Irish trade set wins with the Lady Rebels over the course of the first four sets. Roncalli ultimately prevailed in the match 3-2 by outlasting Cathedral in the decisive fifth set by a 16-18 score (11-25, 25-13, 19-25, 25-21, 16-18). Senior hitter Mia Ditto let the Lady Irish attack with 19 kills on 49 swings, and Junior libero Lucia C...

Cathedral Lady Irish volleyball bested the Bishop Chatard Lady Trojans in four sets in front of a packed house at the Welch Activity Center on CYO Night on Tuesday, September 10. Fans of both schools filled the stands and saw the Lady Irish win the first two sets convincingly, drop set three, then extinguish all hopes of a Lady Trojan comeback with a dominating fourth set win to take the match 3-1 (25-18, 25-15, 19-25, 25-12). Sarah Casper blistered the Chatard defense with 18 kills on 33 attacks for a .545 kill percentage, misconnected on only 2 attacks...

This is a new year, and a new era. Mary Hemer, part of Cathedral High School’s rich volleyball tradition as a player and assistant, in 2019 for the first time will be the program’s head coach. Her objective: take one of Indiana’s most-successful high school volleyball programs “back to what we know.” Her passion for the task couldn’t be clearer. “It’s personal for me,” Hemer said recently. Hemer, a two-time first-team All-State selection and two-time state champion who graduated from Cathe...

Congratulations to our boys and girls volleyball programs earning the AVCA (American Volleyball Coaches Association) academic award for the season 2018-2019.   There are 21 girls programs and 4 boys programs in Indiana that earned this prestigious award. Cathedral was one of two schools in Indiana to have their girls and boys team win the award. Cathedral boys' program leads the nation for high school boys with 16 years, 14 years in a row. The girls program places third in the nation for girls programs for the nu...

Jean Kesterson was inducted to the American Volleyball Coaches Association on December 13. Coach K led the Irish volleyball program from 1989 to 2016 and won eight state championships.  From the AVCA: Jean Kesterson is the type of coach that will have a long-lasting impact on the sport for generations to come. It isn’t just her astounding 826-166 record coaching the Cathedral High School (Indianapolis, IN) Girls Volleyball team, or her eight state championships, but the values she instilled in her players over her 40-year coaching car...

Cathedral High School is excited to announce the hiring of our new girls varsity volleyball coach, Mary Hemer. Hemer is no stranger to Cathedral. She graduated from Cathedral in 2009, and was a member of the Cathedral volleyball state championship teams in 2006 and 2008. Hemer received a volleyball scholarship to the University of Wisconsin where she played three positions and was co-captain her senior year. In her fifth year at Wisconsin, Hemer was a student volunteer coach. That season, Wisconsin's program finished as the NCAA national runner-...

Rose Meyer '19 was named 4A All-District by the Indiana High School Volleyball Coaches Association (IHSVCA). Meyer was one of 12 members named to the Central District team.

Meyer was also named to the All-City team. 

Congratulations Rose!

See the full IHSVCA All-District Team



 

Dee Dee Galligher couldn’t have been prouder. The Cathedral High School volleyball coach said the 2017 Lady Irish accomplished significant, memorable achievements during what she called a “find-your-footing” year for the program. The Irish seniors led all season, and helped a young team grow. They left a legacy. And for that the group will be remembered. “It was really a good year,” Galligher said. The Irish, after back-to-back Class 4A state titles in legendary coach Jean Kesterson’s final two seasons...