The NCAA Division I ladies’s volleyball teaching carousel did some severe spinning Tuesday, contemplating it’s February; the NCAA males’s schedule has a number of key matches on faucet for Wednesday; the AVCA high 25 seems to be quite a bit like final week’s AVCA high 25; and the Worldwide Volleyball Corridor of Fame seems to be at big transfer in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Teaching carousel
The long-standing emptiness in Evanston, Illinois, has lastly been crammed. Northwestern employed Grand Canyon coach Tim Nollan to take over the position vacated by Shane Davis, who resigned on December 1 after eight seasons.
Nollan, a former USC assistant for eight seasons with Mick Haley, has been the pinnacle coach at Grand Canyon in Arizona the previous eight years. This previous season, Grand Canyon completed 23-8, 13-3 within the Western Athletic Convention, which included this system’s first journey to the NCAA Event. Jeff Liu will function the interim head coach at GCU.
Northwestern completed 15-15 final season, September 11 within the Huge Ten. Northwestern has not been to the NCAA Event since 2010 …
Miami, Ohio, has employed Dan Gwitt to interchange Carolyn Condit, who retired after 40 seasons. Gwitt was an assistant the previous two seasons at Penn State, his alma mater, after 4 seasons as an assistant at Indiana. He additionally was the pinnacle coach at 24 at Centenary in 2007, which was then in Division I. He takes over a program that completed 5-25 final season, 1-17 within the Mid-American Convention. Miami has been to the NCAA Event 10 occasions, the final in 2016 and 2017 …
Lengthy Seashore State has a shock opening. Tyler Hildebrand, the pinnacle coach there the previous two seasons, will turn out to be an assistant to Brad Keller at USC. Hildebrand, who performed at Lengthy Seashore State and likewise professionally on the seashore, was an LBSU assistant coach for the boys and had two stints at Nebraska, together with when the Huskers gained the 2017 NCAA ladies’s title. USC completed 19-13 final season, 12-8 within the Pac-12 and misplaced to Pittsburgh within the second spherical of the NCAA Event. USC strikes to the Huge Ten subsequent season …
Jackson State promoted Marcus Hereford to go coach at his alma mater, which completed 17-13 general, 10-6 within the SWAC final season, shedding to Wisconsin within the first spherical of the NCAA Event. Hereford replaces Rose Washington, the 2023 SWAC coach of the 12 months who retired after 22 seasons.
AVCA ballot, POW
The highest three groups — Lengthy Seashore State, Grand Canyon and Hawai’i — stayed the identical. Lengthy Seashore received all 23 first-place votes. UCLA moved up a spot to No. 4, tradiing locations with Stanford.
The most important leap was by Princeton, up six spots to No. 10. Ball State is up 4 notches to No. 11. UC Santa Barbara dropped from twelfth to No. 17. Lincoln Memorial, which gained its solely match, dropped out, and Purdue Fort Wayne, which upset Penn State, moved in at No. 20. PFW was then swept by Loyola Chicago on Tuesday.
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Additionally, the AVCA nationwide participant of the week is UCLA sophomore Cooper Robinson. The skin hitter had 23 kills in a five-set win over UC Irvine after which 22 extra two days later in a four-set victory over UCI, hitting .427 for the 2 matches. He additionally had averaged a block per set.
NCAA males
The highlight is on Honolulu on Wednesday when No. 3 Hawai’i of the Huge West performs host to No. 5 Stanford of the MPSF. They play once more Friday. There’s one other Huge West-MPSF match when No. 7 UC Irvine performs host to No. 15 USC.
There’s a key MIVA match when No. 6 Ohio State goes to No. 14 Lewis. The MIVA’s Lindenwood is at unbiased Missouri S&T, the Huge West’s CSUN is dwelling for UC Merced and the ECC’s American Worldwide performs DIII Rivier.
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There have been 5 matches Sunday, together with Ohio State (7-2) opening MIVA play by beating visiting Lindenwood (2-6, 0-2) in a troublesome 4. 4 Buckeyes had 10 or extra kills within the 30-32, 25-20, 25-17, 25-18 victory, 12 by Daniel Hurley, who had an ace and 6 digs. AJ Lewis had 18 kills and hit .571 for Lindenwood to go together with an help, three aces, two digs and three blocks, one solo … Hawai’i (8-1) notched its second straight sweep of visiting unbiased Tusculum (1-8) because the Rainbow Warriors hit .549 within the 25-15, 25-11, 25-7 blasting. Keoni Thiim had 14 kills with one error in 18 assaults, two aces, three digs and 4 blocks … The EIVA’s NJIT (7-4) swept visiting Merrimack (2-5) of the NEC as Antonio Feliciano led with 11 kills, two assists, an ace, 4 digs and two blocks … the NEC’s Daemen (4-2) swept the ECC’s American Worldwide (1-5) by hitting .435 as 9 gamers had kills … the SIAC’s Fort Valley State swept visiting Life …
There have been no matches Monday, however Tuesday Convention Carolinas had two conference-opening matches as Erskine (5-3,1-0) beat Emmanuel (1-6, 0-1) in 4 and North Greenville (2-3, 1-0) did the identical to Belmont Abbey (4-2, 0-1). Erkine received 18 kills every from Edgerrin Austin and Kacper Rybarczyk, who hit .471 and had 5 of his crew’s seven aces, a block and eight digs. Emmanuel’s Eli Zdonek had 19 kills, two assists and 4 digs. Nicklas Eichenberger had 15 digs and 4 assists. North Greenville’s Diego Rosich had 13 kills, hit .323, and had an help, two aces and 4 digs. Mark Autry, Michael de la Cruz and Logan Keothavy had 9 kills every …
Within the MIVA, No. 13 Loyola Chicago (6-6, 1-1) gained 25-22, 25-17, 25-16 at Purdue Fort Wayne (6-4, 0-1) because the Ramblers hit .449. Jake Learn led with 16 kills, hitting .600 after having one error in 25 assaults to go together with an help, two aces and 6 digs. Parker Van Buren had 10 kills with one error in 19 swings, no aces however 5 serving errors, a block and 5 digs. PFW’s Jon Diedrich had 11 kills in 23 errorless assaults …
Sacred Coronary heart (3-6) of the NEC hit .403 and swept visiting Dominican (2-6) of the ECC. Patrick Mucherino had 10 kills and Carlos Santa Cruz 9. They every had three blocks … Missouri Baptist beat Maryville in 4 and Fort Valley State (3-3) gained once more, this time sweeping Talledega.
Holyoke sports activities complicated
The Worldwide Volleyball Corridor of Fame, at the moment positioned in downtown Holyoke will get a brand new dwelling in a brand new sports activities complicated within the western Massachusetts metropolis.
The information launch from town after a information convention Tuesday:
The town of Holyoke is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking initiative to assemble a state-of-the-art sports activities complicated, set to turn out to be the brand new dwelling for the distinguished Worldwide Volleyball Corridor of Fame. Spearheaded by Mayor Joshua A. Garcia and native entrepreneur Cesar Ruiz, chief of the USA Worldwide Sport Advanced Group, this enterprise seeks to bolster Holyoke’s standing because the birthplace of volleyball and a hub for international sports activities improvement.
This bold undertaking goals to capitalize on Holyoke’s wealthy historical past in volleyball and propel its worldwide growth.
The Worldwide Volleyball Corridor of Fame, at the moment dwelling to over 160 inductees from 25 nations, attracts lovers from throughout the globe. Since its inauguration in 1987, the Corridor of Fame has celebrated volleyball’s elite via its annual induction ceremony, a practice cherished by sports activities lovers worldwide.
Holyoke’s affiliation with volleyball dates again to 1895 when William G. Morgan, then the bodily director of Holyoke YMCA, conceived the game’s idea and guidelines. His visionary contributions earned him the excellence of being the inaugural inductee into the Volleyball Corridor of Fame in 1985.
The proposed sports activities complicated is poised to revolutionize Holyoke’s sports activities panorama, internet hosting over 30 occasions and tournaments yearly. With an anticipated financial affect of $41 million, the complicated guarantees to invigorate the native financial system and supply unparalleled leisure alternatives for residents and guests alike.
Key options of the indoor complicated embody:
- An estimated funding of $50-65 million
- Roughly 140,000 sq. ft of indoor area
- 16 volleyball and basketball courts
- Household-oriented actions reminiscent of arcade, bowling, and mountain climbing
Furthermore, the complicated will generate employment alternatives, with 12 full-time and 30 part-time workers members envisioned to function the power.