As you've likely heard, we don't have any live-action contests to cover at LetsGoPeay.com right now. What we do have is free time; oodles and oodles of free time. Enough free time to swap oodles of emails with various people who would know to create a snapshot of the best players in Austin Peay volleyball history. For our top spot, we turn to the facilitator that any Gov would have loved playing alongside.

Nobody has ever piloted an Austin Peay offense quite like Kristen Stucker.

It was akin to seeing a maestro conduct an orchestra a few times a week. Where others might see chaos, Stucker saw opportunity. The choices she made, choosing in a split-second between the talented hitters flanking her in all directions, were executed in a split-second but seemed to have been pondered and considered, every probability accounted for, long before she went up for the set. The likelihood of a mis-hit set was miniscule; the ball went where she wanted it to go as though sent there on a rope.

She joined Nikki Doyle as the only three-time All-Ohio Valley Conference performers in program history; not only that, they should probably rename the OVC Setter of the Year honor after Stucker, considering she won the first three from 2016-18. And she had a knack for raising her game in the important moments, becoming the only player in program history with three different appearances on the OVC's All-Tournament team.

After sharing setting duties her first season, Stucker made the position her own as a sophomore and posted three of the seven best single-season assist marks in program history, including 1,508 in 2017 to set the program record. She also was the setter for two of the three best teams by attack in program history, with her junior and senior teammates hitting .236. She was a complete player, capable of playing all over the court and holding her own defensively—she's one of five setters in program history to record 1,000 digs in addition to her duties running the show.

And she won. Stucker helped the Govs bring home two regular season titles and a tournament championship, becoming one of the most decorated players in program history not just in individual accolades but team success as well. Add in her academic successes—an OVC Scholar-Athlete nod in 2017-18, 2017 second-team Academic All-American honors—and Stucker put together as complete a career as anyone at Austin Peay.