On this NCAA volleyball replace, now we have the AVCA information of the week, what’s on faucet for the lads, a Division I head-coach hiring and a brand new Division I assistant, and a enjoyable be aware about volleyball gamers who’ve hit the hardwood.
AVCA TOP 20, POW: Lengthy Seaside State bought 17 of the 24 first-place votes and stayed No. 1, adopted by Grand Canyon, which bought 5 of the votes and remained No. 2. Hawai’i, nonetheless No. 3, bought the opposite vote. UCLA stayed at No. 5 and Stanford is nonetheless No. 5.
After that there was a little bit shuffling, together with BYU shifting up two spots to No. 6. UC Irvine stayed at No. 7, Ohio State dropped two notches to eighth, Penn State remains to be No. 9, whereas Loyola Chicago moved up three spots to No. 10.
Impartial Lincoln Memorial is again in, this time at No. 19, and Purdue Fort Wayne dropped out.
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The AVCA nationwide participant of the week is Hawa’i senior exterior Spyros Chakas. The Inexperienced averaged 5.43 kills per set in a four-set win after which a sweep of visiting Stanford. Chakas hit .550 and likewise averaged 1.57 digs.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY MEN: There are six NCAA Division I-II males’s matches Wednesday, together with two MPSF openers when No. 4 UCLA (9-3) performs host to No. 11 Pepperdine (9-3) and No. 12 USC (8-4) is at Concordia Irvine (5-1).
There’s a MIVA match when No. 10 Loyola Chicago (7-6, 2-1) goes 44 miles to the southwest to No. 13 Lewis (7-4, 2-1).
The Huge West’s No. 16 CSUN (7-5) is dwelling for Hope Worldwide, King (1-8) of Convention Carolinas performs at No. 19 impartial Lincoln Memorial (7-3) and Roberts Wesleyan (4-6) of the ECC is dwelling Division III St. John Fisher (13-1).
Thursday exhibits 5 extra matches, together with two within the MIVA when No. 14 Ball State (9-7, 2-1) is dwelling for Purdue Fort Wayne (7-5, 1-2) and Queens (6-7, 2-2) is at McKendree (5-4, 2-1).
The Huge West’s No. 18 UC Santa Barbara (4-9) performs at Division III Cal Lutheran (11-3), No. 20 UC San Diego (3-8) of the Huge West is on the SIAC’s Central State (0-12) and Dominican (3-6) of the ECC is dwelling for Division III Bard (4-4).
UNC ASHEVILLE HIRES MARANTE: The North Carolina faculty employed Danielle Marante, who has been the top coach at Division II Tusculum the previous 5 seasons. Her group received the South Atlantic Convention event and misplaced within the first spherical of the NCAA Event. She beforehand was an assistant at Marshall and performed at Tampa, the place she was a four-time Division II All-American.
Marante takes over a group that completed 8-20 final season, 2-12 within the Huge South. She replaces Amber Haver, who coached there one season. UNC Asheville has by no means been to the NCAA Event.
TEALER TO VANDY: Former Kentucky standout center Azhani Tealer goes to be an assistant at Vanderbilt, the brand new program that begins play in 2025, and nonetheless get to play professional volleyball.
Tealer, a center on the Wildcats’ spring 2021 NCAA title group, completed at Kentucky final season. She was drafted by the Orlando Valkries of the Professional Volleyball Federation and stays on that group’s observe squad. Tealer performed underneath Vandy head coach Anders Nelson, who was a longtime Kentucky assistant.
FROM VOLLEYBALL TO HOOPS: A minimum of two NCAA Division I girls volleyball gamers have joined their respective faculties’ basketball applications this winter.
Emily Holterhaus of Northern Iowa, a 6-foot-2 first-team All-Missouri Valley Convention exterior hitter who led the Panthers in kills, joined the basketball group in early January and has performed in seven video games. She’s hit 6 of 12 photographs (1-4 on 3-pointers) and all 4 of her free throws to go along with six rebounds.
Harm depleted TCU girls’s basketball group desperately wanted our bodies and volleyball’s Sarah Sylvester answered the decision in late January. The 6-3 sophomore center is believed to be the primary TCU athlete within the Huge 12 period to play each sports activities. Sylvester, who led the Horned Frogs with 138 blocks — 13 solo — was fifth on TCU’s volleyball group final fall with 80 kills. She’s performed eight minutes in 5 basketball video games and hit a free throw towards Oklahoma final week for her solely level.
Loads of different volleyball gamers have additionally performed basketball.
5-time Olympian Danielle Scott, for one, performed each sports activities at Lengthy Seaside State and was near being a WNBA participant.
2008 Olympian Kim Willoughby, like Scott from Louisiana, was not solely a volleyball star for Hawai’i, however performed two seasons of basketball for the Rainbow Wahine.
Natalie Williams was a star in each sports activities at UCLA within the early Nineteen Nineties and is now the final supervisor of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces. Williams received NCAA titles in volleyball in 1990 and 1991 and in 1992 and 1993 received the then Honda Broderick Award for participant of the 12 months.
Kristin Fokl (now Kaburakis) was a four-time volleyball All-American at Stanford who received three NCAA titles and likewise received the Honda Award in 1998. She was additionally a basketball All-American who performed within the WNBA and professionally internationally.
BYU made all of it the way in which to the 2014 NCAA volleyball championship match with a group led by 6-7 basketball participant Jennifer Hamson. She led BYU, which misplaced to Penn State within the NCAA closing, in kills in 2014 and was third in blocks. She performed two years within the WNBA.
One other former BYU participant, Alohi Robins-Hardy from Hawai’i, is a member of the Philippines nationwide group and performed basketball at BYU.
Peyton Williams performed each sports activities at Kansas State. She was a basketball star for the Wildcats from 2017-20 and the 6-4 center performed three seasons of volleyball. In 2019, she was fourth on Ok-State’s group in kills and second in blocks.
Maggie Mendelson, who not too long ago transferred from Nebraska to Penn State???, performed sparingly the previous two seasons for the Nebraska volleyball group. Within the 2022-23 basketball season, the 6-5 center performed in 22 video games, scoring 43 factors to go along with 48 rebounds. She was recruited to Nebraska as a two-sport athlete however is predicted to play simply volleyball at Penn State.
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