Former Cougar volleyball legend Katy Ryan recorded 16 kills and 17 points in her first professional match on Sunday.
Ryan joined Club Regatas Lima, a professional Peruvian club team that plays in the Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol (LNSV), on Dec. 27. She was on the team, but did not play in their match on Dec. 28. Sunday was her professional debut, and she performed well, despite the team losing 3–1.
The match was tied 1–1, but Regatas dropped the third and fourth sets, 25–21 and 25–15, respectively, to lose the match.
The loss places Regatas in seventh place in the LNSV with an overall record of 6–5. They were once 6–2 but have lost their last three matches.
Before playing her first professional match on Sunday, she was a former all-time great Cougar and was on the coaching staff at Jacksonville State University as a volleyball graduate assistant.
This past season at Jacksonville State, the Gamecocks had an overall record of 14–15 and made it to the quarterfinals of the Conference USA Volleyball Tournament.
At WSU, as an opposite from 2021-2024, she racked up 1,198 kills, hit .282 (sixth all-time in program history) and logged 1,387 total points (seventh-most in program history). In her last season as a Cougar, she made the AVCA all-region first team and the all-WCC first team. She was also a two-time All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention. She was also a key contributor to the Cougars’ NCAA Tournament appearances from 2021 to 2023.
After being selected to WSU’s Top Ten Seniors list in April 2025, the official Pac-12 website wrote a story on the achievement, noting that Ryan planned on playing professional volleyball in Europe. Although it is not in Europe, she is still pursuing her dream of playing professional volleyball.
