The season obtained underway on Tuesday with Nebraska topping Kentucky and Louisville outlasting Wisconsin.
Now, the remainder of the NCAA girls’s volleyball season begins Friday with greater than 200 matches, together with fairly just a few groups enjoying twice both Friday or Saturday.
ESPN reported excellent viewership for Tuesday’s season opener when Nebraska performed Kentucky
The AVP Chicago Open begins Friday morning on Oak Avenue Seashore on Lake Michigan, the USA girls have a sitting match on the Paralympics in Paris, and a Chicago highschool wants a volleyball coach.
There’s additionally unhappy information. Former Arkansas star Pilar Victoria, who additionally performed at Texas, was discovered useless in her residence in Türkiye.
And depart with a most weird scenario at a Chicago highschool.
Matches to look at in NCAA volleyball
As we’ve famous, there are a mere 218 matches on Friday’s NCAA Division I girls’s schedule. In the event you go to our TV and Streaming Listings web page, you may get hyperlinks on the place lots of the matches can be proven.
These are a few of the matches of notice Friday and notice that there are too many to notice all of them:
NC State vs. Creighton
Pittsburgh vs. Oregon
Penn State vs. Tennessee
UCLA vs. Georgia Tech
USC vs. Pepperdine
Northern Iowa vs. Dayton
UC Santa Barbara vs. Georgia
Florida vs. Colorado State
Southeastern Louisiana vs. BYU
Houston vs. Omaha
Me?
I used to be in Louisville on Tuesday for Nebraska-Kentucky after which was one of many late-night warriors who stayed till the top of Louisville-Wisconsin. After spending Wednesday with the Indiana College workforce and coach Steve Aird, I spent Thursday within the nice midwestern metropolis of Indianapolis.
And the hometown workforce is now not IUPUI, however IU Indianapolis, and people Jaguars and coach Andrew Kroger open their season this afternoon in opposition to Japanese Michigan.
First up is SIUE (not the actual SIU, say these of us who went to Southern Illinois College at Carbondale) vs. EMU at 10 a.m.
After watching that early match, it’s up the street to West Lafayette to Purdue for a doubleheader, first UC Davis vs. UMBC, adopted by No. 8 Purdue enjoying host to Kansas State, a workforce that obtained loads of votes within the preseason AVCA ballot. I’m trying ahead to seeing Purdue coach Dave Shondell and his workforce, together with two stars within the sport, Eva Hudson and Chloe Chicoine, and Kansas State coach Jason Mansfield.
The journey concludes in Milwaukee with what must be 4 nice matches, No. 1 Texas vs. No. 3 Wisconsin and No. 18 Minnesota vs. No. 5 Stanford on Sunday, adopted by Wisconsin vs. Stanford and Texas vs. Minnesota on Sunday.
AVP Chicago Open begins Friday
There are 16 groups on all sides, together with Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner because the No. 1 males’s seed and Olympians Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth topping the ladies’s area. Each pairs received gold on the Manhattan Seashore Open.
The sector contains 4 different units of Olympians, together with Canadians Brandie Wilkerson and Melissa Humana-Paredes, who received silver in Paris. They’re seeded third, whereas the USA’s Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes are seeded second. On the lads’s aspect, the sector contains second-seeded Andy Benesh and Miles Partain and fourth-seeded Chase Budinger and Miles Evans.
Click on right here to learn our pal Larry Hamel’s preview within the Chicago Solar-Occasions.
Click on right here to observe alongside: https://avp.com/brackets/ and right here to look at the stream: https://www.ballylive.com/
Large AVCA First Serve Showcase rankings for ESPN
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USA sitting girls fall to China
Of their first match of the Paralympics in Paris, the USA girls misplaced 21-25, 20-25, 18-25, 24-26 to China. The USA, which has received the final two Paralympics, obtained 18 kills from Heather Erickson and 11 from Katie Bridge.
Their subsequent match is Sunday in opposition to France.
Pilar Victoria dies in Turkiye
Pilar Victoria, the Puerto Rican who performed two years at Texas after which completed at Arkansas, was discovered useless in her residence in Türkiye on Thursday, in accordance with a number of media stories. She was 28.
Victoria was enjoying professionally for the Nilüfer Belediyespor membership in Bursa, Türkiye. Based on the Turkish information web site Haberler.com, Victoria’s physique was found in her residence when officers went to examine on her after she didn’t attend the workforce coaching Thursday morning.
Victoria, a 5-foot-11 outdoors, performed in two closing fours for Texas and have become an All-SEC participant at Arkansas.
Amundsen Excessive Faculty wants a volleyball coach
There’s a job opening at Amundsen Excessive Faculty in Chicago.
Because the Chicago Solar-Occasions reported:
Conservative speak present host Amy Jacobson resigned as Amundsen Excessive Faculty’s volleyball coach Wednesday after she drew criticism for mocking Gus Walz, the son of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on her radio present final week.
Amundsen Principal Kristi Eilers notified dad and mom in a letter stating, “Efficient instantly, Coach Amy Jacobson is now not a part of the athletic program at Amundsen.”
Jacobson was seen on a livestream laughing, and together with co-host Dan Proft, mimicking Gus Walz throughout their Aug. 22 radio present “Chicago’s Morning Reply” on WIND 560-AM.
Within the report by the Chicago Tribune:
After the present aired, a neighborhood father or mother Fb group, together with a bunch of feedback on Reddit, erupted with criticism of Jacobson’s remarks. Native father or mother Beth Hegelund — whose little one attends McPherson Elementary and plans to attend Amundsen, their neighborhood highschool, sooner or later — known as on dad and mom to write down to the principal about Jacobson’s feedback.
Amundsen’s bodily training trainer, Raquel Acosta, can be filling in whereas the varsity appears to be like for a brand new coach.
One must marvel about her lasting this lengthy as the varsity’s coach. Because the Solar-Occasions famous:
Jacobson beforehand labored as a reporter for WMAQ-TV NBC 5. She was fired from that job in 2007 after a WBBM-TV CBS 2 information crew secretly filmed her clad in a bikini along with her two kids on the house of a person whose spouse had been lacking for greater than two months.
Learn extra about it within the Chicago Solar-Occasions and extra within the Chicago Tribune.
