GROVE CITY — Jordyn Wyllie towered over everyone at a libero camp at West Virginia University this summer.

She was so much taller, in fact, that the 5-foot-11 senior on the Grove City High volleyball team received some very curious looks.

“Everyone else there was 5-4 and under,” Wyllie said, laughing. “I was telling people, 'I swear I'm not bad at volleyball. I'm just working on things.'”

Already dangerous at the net for the Eagles, Wyllie was at the camp to hone a different set of skills that she knew she would need during her senior season if she was to be the all-around player she so desperately wanted to become.

Wyllie also attended some other ball-control camps to work on her passing.

“From my middle-school years on, I have been a middle blocker,” Wyllie said. “Your middles are the tallest girls on your team and they don't go all the way around. So, I begged my coaches, 'Can I, can I, can I play all the way around' like every two seconds.”

Wyllie, though, had to prove to her coaches she could — so she went to the libero camp and felt like a giant.

“She has a tremendous work ethic,” said Grove City volleyball coach Dawn Haggart. “It shows because she used to play middle for me and now she's playing in the back row. She worked so hard to get herself to be able to play the whole way around.”

Wyllie's main job, though, remains the same: getting the volleyball to the floor as quickly and with as much force as possible.

She's still quite good at that.

Wyllie had 34 kills against Lakeview in a five-set loss and added 26 more kills in an epic five-set win against Slippery Rock last week.

Her spikes have been so thunderous, they have caused bodily harm to others.

Wyllie has doled out deep bruises and concussions this season. Unfortunately for the Eagles, one of her spikes concussed her own setter, Hannah Santom, in practice.

“I hate doing that. I hate hitting people. I hate hurting people,” Wyllie said. “I love hitting the floor just in front of them, but not them. Hitting people really makes me feel bad.”

Wyllie has a lot of other things to feel good about, however.

She has already committed to play next season at Indiana (Pa.) University and carries straight A's in the classroom at Grove City.

While it would have been easy for Wyllie to coast through her senior year, she had other ideas.

“Both athletically and academically, I want my senior year to be my best year,” Wyllie said. “I'm working my butt off academically because I want to be a distinguished scholar.”

Wyllie is also cognizant that all eyes on a young team are on her.

The Eagles lost six seniors off a team that went to the District 10 playoffs last season.

Wyllie had a goal of being a leader on and off the court this season. Part of that was showing she could play any position on the floor.

“Being a senior and being a leader out there, the younger girls are going to look at me,” she said. “I have to know what I'm doing. I can't bumble around and look like a fool out there.

“It doesn't matter if it's an 8 a.m. practice on a Saturday,” Wyllie added. “I'm going to go all out. There's no point in doing anything less.”