Quantity sixth ranked Carthage cruised all the way down to Chicago to tackle 19th ranked Dominican College for a Saturday afternoon match. The 2 squads have created a pleasant rivalry that dates to 2014. The Carthage Firebirds maintain the higher going into the match with an 11-5 file over the Stars.
The 2 packages graciously accepted to be a part of KP’S NCAA Division III Match Of The Week. A practice I hope to proceed for a very long time. It is a chance to focus on NCAA Division III Volleyball and permit our followers to study some unbelievable faculties. Saturdays match didn’t disappoint with Carthage defeating Dominican in 4 units (25-17, 25-20, 25-22, 25-13). “Carthage is at all times a aggressive robust group to play. They did a pleasant job with their service strain and in addition centered on a whole lot of swiping off the block, which we didn’t deal with properly sufficient,” stated Dominican Head Coach Doug Burchett.
In set one the Firebirds jumped out to a 10-4 lead and Owen Otto picked up his 100th kill on the season. “Owen Otto is likely one of the greatest gamers I’ve ever been round. His capacity to be a artistic level scorer in troublesome conditions is elite. He makes our offense go and provides our setters a safety blanket they’ll depend on. He’s an entire participant. I’m fortunate to teach to teach this group, but in addition extremely fortunate to mentor Owen Otto,” stated Carthage Head Coach JW Kieckhefer. Carthage sided out for 70 p.c and was profitable from the service line getting Dominican out of system in set one. The robust serves result in the celebrities committing seven attacking errors and hitting .000 for the set.
For set two Carthage continued to remain in full management for a lot of the set. The Stars made a late run to maintain issues attention-grabbing, however the Firebirds in the end received the set 25-20. It was not the cleanest match for each groups with the Firebirds dipping their aspect out share to 47 p.c and hitting solely .219. The Begins nonetheless couldn’t discover an offensive rhythm hitting .135 for the set.
Set three was when the Dominican had been at their greatest by rising their aspect out share to 73 p.c and making use of good service strain. Sophomore exterior hitter Ty Geschke had 4 kills and two blocks within the set. “Ty has a fantastic vertical and brings a whole lot of offense energy to the court docket. He’s making strides in his all-around sport and can get higher as his volleyball IQ matures,” stated Coach Burchett.
Carthage bounced again in set 4 and performed very clear. They’d 17 kills, zero errors, hit a formidable .459 and sided out at 85 p.c. “I’m actually happy with this group. We struggled a bit in set three with errors, however we got here again sturdy in set 4. With a younger group it’s good to see us reply to adversity with confidence and aggression. After we play our model we’re actually robust to beat,” stated Coach Kieckhefer.
Coach Burchett mentioned the positives the Stars took after this match, “I assumed we had battle in us, however simply didn’t execute at a excessive stage constantly. After we handed properly within the third set we had been in a position to execute our offense properly and put the strain on them.”
Carthage was led by Owen Otto with 18 kills and hitting .400 on the match. Setter Ryan Morey ran an environment friendly offense that totaled a .331 hitting share and had 43 assists. Owen Hendricks added 13 kills and Ryan Cholewinski contributed 10.
For Dominican Ty Geschke had 12 kills and Casey Goss received to double figures with 10. The aspect out share underneath 50 p.c within the units the Stars misplaced, 21 attacking errors and a .142 hitting share for the match ended up being a distinction maker.
Over the week I used to be in a position to study quite a bit about each packages. The SID’S at each faculties had been excellent in offering me with a wealth of data. NCAA Division III males’s volleyball is on the rise. Inspiring school males’s volleyball gamers ought to give Division III an sincere look with many extra states beginning highschool boys’ volleyball packages.
Dominican College:
Volleyball historical past: The Males’s Volleyball program at Dominican College and previously Rosary School has seen many alternative types, initially beginning as a Membership sport after which transferring into NAIA again into Membership after which lastly beginning up as a Division III program with an inaugural season in 2014. At present within the twelfth season as a Division III program.
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Previous coaches: Dan Ames (Head MVB Coach at Aurora College), Dan Pawlikowski (Ladies’s Assistant Coach at Depaul College), Cameron Andrew (Ladies’s Head Coach Elmhurst College), and Will Craft (Assistant MVB Coach at Pepperdine College).
Notable Alumni: Luke Spicer (Reverse, ’18), Jack McGuire (Setter, ’22), Ethan Klosak (Exterior, ’20) Alex Coyne (Setter, ’17), George Kougan (Reverse, ’22)
Group service fall 2024: The Stars teamed up with the River Forest Group for the annual September 11th LemonAid Fundraiser. The occasion the lads’s volleyball group helped out with handing out meals/drinks, child’s video games, crosswalk donation assortment and takedown of the occasion. Coach Doug Burchett and his squad volunteered with Feed My Ravenous Youngsters. The group spent a few hours creating and packaging meals that’s distributed all world wide for ravenous youngsters.
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Carthage:
Volleyball historical past: Carthage Firebirds received back-to-back NCAA titles in 2021 and 2022. The 2021 title it was the primary NCAA group championship in class historical past. For years Carthage has dominated the CCIW convention, they’ve been to eight last fours from 2005 to 2022.
Former Firebirds teaching on the school stage: LJ Marx who began because the coach of our males’s program is now at Marquette, Matt Ulmer simply received employed at Kansas, Curtis Madson males’s Concordia Wisconsin, Ryan Thompson males’s Missouri S&T, Connor Wexter previously males’s Loyola Chicago is now with James Madison, Justin Girodat TCU, Keegan Brumitt North Dakota St and Kyle Cohan Western Kentucky.
100 Win Membership: Just lately, Coach JW Kieckhefer surpassed 100 profession wins. JW is the second coach in Carthage volleyball historical past to succeed in the milestone. Each LJ Marx and JW each collected 100 wins of their first six years.
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Kevin Pratte has enthusiastically been concerned in volleyball for over 23 years. Pratte began enjoying in center faculty and was lucky sufficient to play NCAA Division 1 volleyball at The College of the Pacific. After his enjoying profession Pratte received concerned in teaching volleyball. In 2009 Pratte was the graduate assistant coach for the College of Nebraska girls’s volleyball program. Later in his profession Pratte made teaching stops at College of the Pacific, a number of neighborhood faculties and coached at WAVE Volleyball Membership for seven years. At present Pratte is a bodily schooling trainer within the San Diego Unified Faculty District, San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary member, a university volleyball recruiting coordinator, hosts a volleyball podcast present, the proprietor of the Center Hitter web site and runs a non-profit group to assist increase funds to present boys’ highschool volleyball college students scholarships to play membership volleyball. He’s excited to proceed writing for Volleyball Journal and is raring to cowl the sport.
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