College has been full of adjustments, and not just on the court for Wittmer, who notes “Time management is the toughest thing for me. You’re at weights, and practice is like all day, and then you have to find time to get your studies in. It’s just really hard.”

And weeknight bus trips to Paoli, Linton, Vincennes and points in between have been replaced by weekend road trips all across the Midwest and the Big Ten Conference, such as the weekend of Nov. 2-3, when the Hoosiers played Ohio State in Columbus on a Friday, then traveled on to University Park, Pa., to face Penn State on Saturday before returning to Bloomington.

In addition, while her old high school concluded its season in the IHSAA state finals that same weekend, the Hoosiers still had a month left in their regular season after the road match at Penn State.

“It’s difficult, like just for your body, it’s so different because you’re not used to having a season that lasts that long. And the travel, we leave on Thursday and we don’t get home until Sunday or Saturday night really late,” said Wittmer.

“It’s your whole weekend whenever you’re gone. And you have to be at the gym four hours before the match, and your warmups are an hour. It takes so much more time than high school.”