The day after the NCAA Division I Volleyball Championship supplied us with loads of information and notes for this ultimate version of Volleyball Right this moment.
Purdue star outdoors hitter Eva Hudson has picked her new crew, Michigan State and Cincinnati employed new coaches, the AVCA has a ultimate ballot, and LOVB introduced the final of its six standouts headed to the brand new league.
We’ve additionally bought our final worldwide professional girls’s report of the 12 months.
And Tuesday is chock full, as a result of Emily Ehman and I’ll do our final 900 Sq. Ft video of the 12 months and we plan to publish our VolleyballMag All-American groups and announce the coach, participant and freshman of the 12 months.
Hudson goes south to Kentucky
Eva Huson, the Purdue outdoors hitter who led the Huge Ten in kills this season, will end her profession at Kentucky. The 6-foot-1 Hudson had 567 kills this season (4.81/set), tied for fifth within the NCAA, and hit .287. She had 70 blocks, 5 solo, and averaged 2.44 digs/set.
Two different key Purdue gamers are within the portal, fellow outdoors Chloe Chicoine (363 kills, 2.95 digs) and Lourdes Myers (146 kills, 121 blocks, 13 solo).
As we mentioned earlier than, we’re not going to attempt to sustain with all of them, however right here’s one other: Illinois junior setter Brooke Mosher is headed to Pittsburgh. She averaged 8.91 assists, 1.94 digs and had 44 blocks, one solo, and 43 aces, which tied for seventh within the B1G.
Teaching carousel spins at Michigan St., Cincy
Michigan State employed Kristen Kelsay who has been an assistant at Minnesota the previous two seasons. She’s a former Michigan State assistant who has additionally coached at Northwestern.
She takes over a program that completed 13-18 this season, 6-14 within the Huge Ten.
Cincinnati employed Bowling Inexperienced’s Danijela Tomic. Tomic has been at Bowling Inexperienced for 13 seasons and earlier than that was head coach at Florida Worldwide. Bowling Inexperienced received MAC titles in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022.
The Bearcats completed 14-15 final season, 5-13 within the Huge 12.
Penn State atop ultimate AVCA high 25
The ultimate-four groups took the primary 4 spots, with NCAA-champion Penn State No. 1, adopted by Louisville, Pittsburgh and Nebraska.
Florida State and BYU, which have been within the ultimate regular-season ballot, dropped out, and Texas A&M jumped in at No. 16 and Marquette did the identical at No. 25.
Click on right here for the entire AVCA Division I Girls’s Volleyball Ballot.
https://www.avca.org/polls-awards/polls/?_season=2024&_divisions=division-i-women
LOVB rounds out its class of six
League One Volleyball is asking them the LOVB 6.
The final one to be introduced was Penn State’s Jess Mruzik, the star of the NCAA Champioship. She is going to play in Houston.
The others:
Sophie Fischer of Georgia will play at LOVB Salt Lake, Sarah Franklin of Wisconsin is staying dwelling with LOVB Madison, Onye Ofoegbu of Oregon will be a part of LOVB Atlanta, Lexi Rodriguez of Nebraska is staying near dwelling by going to LOVB Omaha, and Madi Skinner of Texas will change into the ninth former Longhorn on the LOVB Austin roster.
USA girls’s worldwide professional report
Khalia Lanier and Imoco Conegliano received the Membership World Championship by sweeping the Chinese language crew Tianjin.
Nia Reed had 45 kills, three blocks and three aces and was eighth greatest scorer within the event, however her Praia Clube crew misplaced to Milano within the bronze-medal match. Payton Caffrey had 42 kills, three blocks and three aces throughout the 5 matches.
In Italy, Avery Skinner had 10 kills and a block however Chieri was swept by Novara. Ashley Evans set Bergamo to its eighth win of the season in a sweep of Perugia. Evans had three aces and two kills.
Within the German Cup, Dresden earned a spot within the ultimate aby beating Potsdam in 5. Marta Levinska had 19 kills and a block for Dresden and Emma Clothier added 5 kills, three aces and a block. Danielle Harbin led Potsdam with 21 kills, a block and an ace. Eleanor Holhaus had 12 kills and two blocks and Sabrina Starks had a match-high six blocks, three kills and an ace.
Within the German League, Schwerin pulled off a reverse sweep in opposition to defending champions Stuttgart, profitable 16-14 within the fifth. Jaelyn Keene had 9 kills, 4 blocks and two aces for Schwerin. Madelyn Robinson had two kills as an alternative choice to Stuttgart.
Setter Jenna Ewert had three kills and two blocks and was named MVP as Potsdam beat Suhl in 4 units. Harbin was high scorer with 13 kills and three blocks. Holthaus added 12 kills, a block and an ace. Starks had 5 kills and two blocks.
Aachen upset Wiesbaden in 5 units as Cara McKenzie had 10 kills, three blocks and two aces. Serena Bruin added eight kills, three blocks and an ace. Rachel Anderson-Gomez had 5 kills and two aces for Wiesbaden.
In France, Mulhouse escaped Quimper’s upset bid in 5 units. Annayka Legros was high scorer with 17 kills (.483), two blocks and one ace. Katelyn Evans had 13 kills. Jasmine Gross completed with seven kills, three aces and two blocks.
Nantes bought again into the win column by sweeping Chamalieres. Haylie Bennett was high scorer with 10 kills, three blocks and an ace. Jess Robinson had 4 kills, a block and an ace. Setter Ella Could Powell had two kills, a block and an ace.
Alondra Vazquez was named MVP as Nancy beat Cannes in 5 units. She had 17 kills and two blocks. Breana Runnels had 10 kills and an ace. Bella Bergmark added seven kills and three blocks. Lauren Matthews had 13 kills and one block for Cannes. Anna Katherine Griggs added kills, a block and an ace.
Morgahn Fingall was named MVP as Volero Le Cannet swept Marcq en Barouel. Fingall was the highest scorer with 17 kills, three blocks and an ace.
