Lynney Tarnow only had eyes for Wisconsin before she even thought about playing college volleyball. It’s been like a second home ever since the rising junior was 8 years old and attended her first camp in Madison. “My family actually had a lake house up there on Lake Delavan for the last 50 years, and we’d go there every summer, and one summer I just started to pick up volleyball and I went to their camp,” Tarnow said.
“When I was a kid, it was the only school in my eyes. I loved the school. I would tell my teammates when I was younger.
They all knew it was my dream school.” That dream has become a reality. Tarnow’s home away from home is now her future home.
Tarnow, a 6-foot-5 middle hitter for defending Class 4A state runner-up and a Downers Grove resident, made her verbal commitment earlier this month to NCAA volleyball powerhouse Wisconsin. Tarnow received a call with a scholarship offer the morning of June 15, had a volleyball tournament that afternoon and accepted the offer that night. “It was just insane, a feeling like no other,” Tarnow said.
“I was kind of baffled in the moment. I didn’t have words to say other than thank you so much. It’s crazy that my dream from when I was little, hoping to play college ball, was a possibility.
It was really cool.” Tarnow joins a Wisconsin program that has made five Final Four appearances since 2013 under head coach Kelly Sheffield, four since 2019 with a national championship in 2021. The Badgers have a t.
