How Carter Booth reunited with former Wisconsin volleyball teammate Mimi Colyer on the Dallas Pulse
Plus, how the former Badgers have navigated the professional game.
Carter Booth’s early professional career initially took her overseas, but she’s back stateside and hoping to win a championship with a very familiar face.
Booth wrapped up her University of Wisconsin volleyball career on a blistering run on way to a Final Four berth in December, and she began this year with Unione Yamamay Busto Arsizio (UYBA) of the Italian Serie A1 League. It allowed her to experience, as she explained it, a “Welcome to Pro moment” in adjusting to another level of the game to help her mature as a player.
Before all that, Booth was selected in the third round of the 2025 Major League Volleyball Draft by the Dallas Pulse in November. As one season ended in Italy, another continued for the Pulse. It’s been quite a successful first year for the franchise with a 20-8 record and clinching the No. 2 seed in the MLV postseason.
Booth was approached about joining the team for its final weeks, and Dallas announced her signing April 15. That’s allowed her to reconnect with former Wisconsin teammate (and roommate) Mimi Colyer, who gushed that “it’s been nothing short of awesome.”
“I think at the time, they had a few injuries, and they had to put in Kelsie (Payne), who’s not a middle, and they had to put her in,” Booth told Badger Observer on April 28. “Mimi probably has a better perspective of how that went, but I’m hearing that it was not ideal. So they just kind of wanted to get another middle, another body on the roster.
“And I was like, ‘Sure, why not?’ It’s three extra weeks, and I want to be playing volleyball for as long as possible right now, because when it’s the offseason, like it’s the offseason. There’s not a lot of opportunities to play until September, November rolls around. So yeah, that was kind of my journey. I’m here now finishing out … and yeah, it’s going great.”
The transition to Major League Volleyball and the Pulse appeared pretty smooth off the court, as Booth said she was “fully settled in literally in a day.” She’s played in Dallas’ last five matches leading into the postseason, and her time with the team could extend beyond Thursday in a win over the Mojo (which can be seen on ION). They would face the winner of the Indy Ignite and Omaha Supernovas for the MLV championship on Saturday.
