On this version of Volleyball Right now, we now have NCAA updates, the AVCA prime 25, hurricane havoc for 2 North Carolina faculties, Athletes Limitless and an enormous occasion in India.
NCAA volleyball Tuesday
There are 21 NCAA Division I matches Tuesday, only one involving a ranked workforce when No. 22 Dayton goes to Duquesne. The Flyers, who’ve received 24 Atlantic 10 matches in a row, are 14-1, 4-0 within the A10. Duquesne is 11-5, 2-2. Additionally within the A10 VCU is at Davidson.
Convention USA has three groups atop the standings and so they’re all in motion as Western Kentucky is residence for Center Tennessee, UTEP is residence for New Mexico and Liberty is at FIU.
Colorado State, at 4-0 the one Mountain West workforce unbeaten in league play, performs the one convention match when the Rams are residence for Wyoming.
UC Riverside is at UC Davis within the Massive West, and there are 4 matches within the Southland, together with the 2 groups at 4-0 as Southeastern Louisiana is residence for New Orleans and Stephen F. Austin goes to Lamar.
The 2 MAC matches have Buffalo at Akron and Ball State at Miami.
Excessive Level of the Massive South has an uncommon mid-season non-conference journey when it performs at Brown of the Ivy League in Windfall, Rhode Island, earlier than going to New Hampshire of the America East on Wednesday.
NCAA volleyball Monday
There have been 4 matches Monday, three within the SWAC, as Southern beat Grambling in 5, Prairie View swept at Mississippi Valley State and Jackson State swept visiting Texas Southern. Within the WAC, Grand Canyon swept visiting California Baptist as Tatum Parrott had 14 kills, hit .407, and had an help, 9 digs and a block.
AVCA prime 25
The highest 11 groups stayed the identical. The primary change after that was Kentucky, up a spot to No. 12.
Pittsburgh acquired all 61 first-place votes.
The most important jumps had been by USC, up 5 spots to No. 16, and TCU, additionally up 5 spots to No. 17.
The most important fall was by Florida State, from No. 16 to twenty first.
Nobody dropped out however Washington at No. 24 and Auburn at twenty fifth traded locations.
Click on right here for the full AVCA Division I Ladies’s Volleyball Ballot.
For comparability, here’s a hyperlink to the VolleyballMag Tremendous 16 Media Ballot.
UNC Asheville, App State cope with post-Helene
Whereas Hurricane Milton has already triggered postponements and cancelations in Florida, a few volleyball groups in North Carolina had their lives turned the wrong way up by Hurricane Helene.
The UNC Asheville volleyball and males’s and ladies’s soccer groups at the moment are residing 130 miles to the east at UNC Charlotte. UNCA, which has received six in a row and is 6-2 total, has not performed since profitable in 5 at Charlotte on September 17. Three matches have been postponed up to now. The Bulldogs are scheduled to play Radford on Friday in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
App State, 8-5 total and 2-0 within the Solar Belt, has stayed residence in Boone, North Carolina, however hasn’t performed since September 27. Its residence matches final weekend with Louisiana had been canceled.
Coach Sarah Rumely Noble stated her workforce practiced simply three days final week, as a result of “our foremost enviornment has was a Pink Cross shelter, so we can’t be in there.”
Whereas faculty is canceled till subsequent Wednesday, the volleyball workforce goes on the highway to play back-to-back matches at Previous Dominion on Friday and Saturday, “attempting to have as ‘regular’ every week as doable,” coach Noble stated.
The Mountaineers have been volunteering on the foremost distribution heart in Boone.
“My workforce cherished it,” stated Noble, who went there each day final week. “It felt like they had been doing one thing productive. It was arduous work, although, that’s for positive.”
Athletes Limitless wraps up first week
After the primary three matches of the primary week of play, Bethania De La Cruz is the general chief with 1,066 factors. Brittany Abercrombie is second at 1,050, with an enormous lead over third-place Kayla Caffey (795).
Click on right here for the recap of the primary match, when Abercrombie had 15 kills and 12 digs as Staff De La Cruz-Mejía beat Staff Hentz 74-59.
Click on right here for the recap of the second match, when Madi Kingdon Rishel had 16 kills to guide Staff Valentin-Anderson to a 70-63 victory over Staff Nuneviller.
40,000-plus at volleyball occasion in India
The FIVB reported that greater than 40,000 kids just lately attended the mass participation Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Volleyball Basis Competition in India.
In accordance with the FIVB, “The occasion occurred on the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Know-how (KIIT) and KISS Athletic Stadium, that includes 60 out of doors courts that hosted fun-filled volleyball actions for the youngsters. As much as 480 contributors performed concurrently on these courts. Along with the out of doors courts, volleyball actions occurred throughout a number of venues on the KIIT campus, together with indoor halls and a multi-purpose gymnasium.”
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