If you happen to’re sufficiently old, you bear in mind the jingle for Doublemint gum:
“Double your pleasure, double your enjoyable … ”
Properly, in NCAA girls’s volleyball any more, double on.
That’s as a result of “The NCAA Taking part in Guidelines Oversight Panel authorised permitting girls’s volleyball gamers to contact the ball greater than as soon as with any a part of the physique in a single try on a staff’s second contact when the ball is performed to a teammate.”
The total NCAA information launch, with different guidelines adjustments, follows.
So does the newest AVCA males’s ballot and POW, and our recap of Tuesday’s NCAA males’s volleyball, that included a five-set MIVA win by No. 7 Ohio State and a five-set Convention Carolinas win by Belmont Abbey.
There’s additionally information on the professional entrance, together with Professional Volleyball Federation, LOVB and Athletes Limitless.
Doubles, nostril rings, two liberos
We interviewed the chair of the NCAA Division I guidelines committee, Northern Colorado coach Lyndsey Oates, when the committee authorised all of the adjustments . You’ll be able to learn that story right here.
The remainder of the NCAA information launch:
Two liberos
The panel authorised every staff being allowed to designate two liberos for every set of the match. Just one libero could be allowed on the courtroom at a time, and the libero could be allowed to serve in a single place.
The rationale for the proposal is to permit extra gamers the chance to compete and to extend motion and enhance play.
Different guidelines adjustments
- Permitting the referee to challenge an administrative sanction (pink card) to the house staff in situations the place spectators encroach the taking part in space and the host administration fails to resolve the issue.
- Permitting interference above the online (whether or not an opponent was touched) to be added to the record of performs that may be challenged in video evaluation.
- Increasing the jewellery rule to permit small, snug-fitting nostril rings and ear cuffs.
- Requiring all protests to be resolved throughout the match.
Experimental rule
The Girls’s Volleyball Guidelines Committee in January authorised an experimental rule to permit girls’s groups to make use of the lads’s/worldwide volleyball (nonsmooth cowl) throughout the nontraditional season this spring.
AVCA POLL, POW
Daemen, a fifth-year program within the NEC at present 8-2, is in at No. 20, ranked for the primary time. The Wildcats are tied for the final spot with UC San Diego. Daemen is a Division II college situated in Amherst, New York, close to Buffalo.
The highest 4 groups — Lengthy Seashore State (14 first-place votes), unbeaten Grand Canyon (eight first-place votes), Hawai’i (one vote) and UCLA stayed the identical.
UC Irvine moved up two spots after profitable twice at Stanford, which dropped a notch to No. 6. Ohio State is up a spot to seventh, adopted by BYU, Penn State and USC.
Nobody dropped out.
Click on right here for the full AVCA high 20.
The AVCA nationwide participant of the week is UC Irvin junior outdoors Hilir Henno. The Frenchman averaged 6.38 kills in eight units final week, hitting .379, to with 1.25 blocks/set.
Males’s recaps
Ohio State (11-3, 5-1 MIVA) rallied to take an up-and-down 25-9, 23-25, 29-31, 25-23, 15-9 five-setter from visiting Purdue Fort Wayne (7-6, 1-3). Jacob Pasteur led the Buckeyes with 17 kills, two assists, two aces, 4 blocks and three digs. Ben Putnam had 11 kills, Cole Younger and Daniel Hurley — who had seven aces — 10 kills every, and Justin Howard 9 with one error in 17 assaults. Ohio State hit .320 and had 13 aces and 31 serving errors. The Mastodons, who hit .112 and had 4 aces and 14 errors, bought 13 kills every from Jon Diedrich and Mark Frazier, who had an ace, eight digs and 5 blocks, one solo …
Within the different MIVA match, No. 15 Lewis (8-6 ,3-3) swept at Quincy (5-5, 1-5) as Max Roquet had 13 kills and hit .458 within the 29-27, 25-22, 25-21 victory. Roquet had an help, an ace, two solo blocks and 5 digs. Quincy’s Alleyne Raje had 19 kills, hit .314 and had two assists, two aces, a solo block and 6 digs …
There have been two Convention Carolinas matches as first-place North Greenville (6-3, 5-0) swept at last-place Lees-McRae (1-11, 0-5) and Belmont Abbey (8-2, 4-1) saved tempo because it received in 5 at King (1-12, 1-4). 9 gamers had kills for North Greenville. Belmont Abbey, which received 21-25, 25-15, 20-25, 25-19, 15-10, bought 12 kills from Matthew Staskunas, Jibriel Elhaddad and 10 from Zach Puentes. Elhaddad hit .444 and had two aces, six digs and eight blocks. King’s Warren Davis had 19 kills, an help, two aces, six digs and a block …
Emmanuel (5-8) of Convention Carolinas swept visiting Edward Waters (2-5) of the SIAC. 9 Emmanuel gamers had kills, eight by Eli Zdonek. Tavion Ford led EWU with 17 kills and Richard Hendricks had 13 …
Lincoln Memorial (9-3), the unbiased ranked No. 19, swept Tusculum …
There are two matches on Wednesday’s schedule, as Dominican of the ECC is dwelling for Russell Sage and unbiased Thomas Extra is at Mount St. Joseph.
Professional Volleyball Federation
There’s one match Wednesday has the Omaha Supernovas (4-2) on the Columbus Fury (0-2). The 7 p.m. Jap first serve could be seen on the Professional Volleyball Federation YouTube channel.
The Grand Rapids Rise lead the league at 3-1, adopted by the Atlanta Vibe (4-2) and Omaha. The Vegas Thrill are 2-2, the Orlando Valkyries 2-3, and Columbus is a recreation forward of San Diego (0-3) within the loss column.
Orlando performs at Vegas on Thursday and Grand Rapids is at San Diego on Friday.
LOVB to KC
League One Volleyball, one other professional league that begins in 2025, introduced that it’ll conduct an in-season event subsequent February on the Triple Crown NIT in Kansas Metropolis. The Triple Crown event (which John Tawa coated this previous weekend) is annual gathering on Presidents Day weekend.
Click on right here for the full LOVB information launch.
Extra Athletes Limitless on ESPN
Athletes Limitless and ESPN introduced a multi-year renewal of their rights settlement.
For the primary time, the deal will embrace all 4 Athletes Limitless sports activities — girls’s professional volleyball, basketball, softball and lacrosse. AU volleyball was proven on ESPN retailers final season. The addition of AU basketball comes amid ESPN’s unbelievable success with the WNBA and faculty basketball.
Volleyball will likely be proven 30 instances subsequent fall on ESPN, together with 15 on ESPN linear networks (together with ESPNU, ESPN Information) and 5 instances on ESPN+.