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    Volleyball on the Range

    Oct 28, 2021 5 minutes
    By Jaime Aron

    Marilyn McReavy Nolen pulled into Alpine in the summer of 1968, headed from her family’s home in the West Texas town of Big Lake to California. She was joining her Team USA volleyball teammates to get ready for the Mexico City Olympics.

    She had stopped in to visit a high school friend at Sul Ross State University, then and now a school of about 2,000 students best known for its rodeo team. By the time she drove away, however, McReavy Nolen had accepted an offer to return in January as a graduate assistant in the women’s physical education department while also pursuing a master’s degree.

    Mary Jo Peppler pulled into Alpine in early 1969. A volleyball coach at a Catholic school in California, Peppler was on

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