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 applications graciously accepted to be a part of KP’S NCAA Division III Match Of The Week. A convention I hope to proceed for a very long time. It is a chance to spotlight NCAA Division III Volleyball and permit our followers to find out about some unimaginable schools. Saturdays match didn’t disappoint with Carthage defeating Dominican in 4 units (25-17, 25-20, 25-22, 25-13). “Carthage is all the time a aggressive robust staff to play. They did a pleasant job with their service stress and likewise centered on loads of swiping off the block, which we didn’t deal with nicely 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 among the finest gamers I’ve ever been round. His capability to be a inventive 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 a whole participant. I’m fortunate to teach to teach this staff, 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 fascinating, however the Firebirds finally gained 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 finest by rising their aspect out share to 73 p.c and making use of good service stress. Sophomore exterior hitter Ty Geschke had 4 kills and two blocks within the set. “Ty has an excellent vertical and brings loads 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 robust 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 believed we had struggle in us, however simply didn’t execute at a excessive stage constantly. After we handed nicely within the third set we had been in a position to execute our offense nicely and put the stress 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 be taught loads about each applications. The SID’S at each schools had been excellent in offering me with a wealth of data. NCAA Division III males’s volleyball is on the rise. Inspiring faculty males’s volleyball gamers ought to give Division III an trustworthy look with many extra states beginning highschool boys’ volleyball applications.
Dominican College:
Volleyball historical past: The Males’s Volleyball program at Dominican College and previously Rosary Faculty 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. Presently within the twelfth season as a Division III program.
AVCA Group Tutorial 8-Time Winner
24 First Group All-Convention Gamers
8 All-Individuals
5 Convention Participant of the Yr
3 Time NACC teaching employees of the yr
4 NACC Convention Championship 2018/2021/2022/2024
MVCL Convention Championship (Previous Convention)
Remaining 4 Finishes 2018/2021
Elite 8 Finishes 2017/2022
Candy 16 End 2024
203-82 total file
Previous coaches: Dan Ames (Head MVB Coach at Aurora College), Dan Pawlikowski (Girls’s Assistant Coach at Depaul College), Cameron Andrew (Girls’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)
Neighborhood service fall 2024: The Stars teamed up with the River Forest Neighborhood for the annual September 11th LemonAid Fundraiser. The occasion the lads’s volleyball staff 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 staff spent a few hours creating and packaging meals that’s distributed all around the globe for ravenous kids.
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#1 in Undergrad Educating in Illinois
#1 for Social Mobility in Illinois
#3 Regional College within the Midwest
16 Common Class Dimension
25+ Graduate Diploma Packages
20 Research Overseas Packages
35+ Pupil Golf equipment and Organizations
3.28 Common GPA for Pupil Athletes
3,300 College students together with Undergrad and Graduate College students
Carthage:
Volleyball historical past: Carthage Firebirds gained back-to-back NCAA titles in 2021 and 2022. The 2021 title it was the primary NCAA staff championship in class historical past. For years Carthage has dominated the CCIW convention, they’ve been to eight remaining fours from 2005 to 2022.
Former Firebirds teaching on the faculty 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: 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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Personal faculty positioned in Kenosha, WI subsequent to Lake Michigan
Roughly 2,500 undergraduate college students
Enterprise and Nursing are among the prime majors
Kevin Pratte has enthusiastically been concerned in volleyball for over 23 years. Pratte began taking part in in center faculty and was lucky sufficient to play NCAA Division 1 volleyball at The College of the Pacific. After his taking part in 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 schools and coached at WAVE Volleyball Membership for seven years. Presently Pratte is a bodily schooling instructor within the San Diego Unified College 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 elevate funds to provide 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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