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Gatorade National Volleyball Player of the Year: Jordan Burgess
by anngaff
posted January 11, 2012 at 12:54pm

World Champion and Pro Beach Volleyball Player April Ross Surprises Standout with Elite Honor  Tampa, Fla. (Jan 10, 2011) via release – In its 27th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in colla...more

UCLA Bruins, The 2011 NCAA National Volleyball Champions
by Bethany
posted December 17, 2011 at 11:31pm

The 2011 NCAA Women’s National Champions are the UCLA Bruins! The #9 seeded UCLA Bruins upset #3 seed Illinois for the championship! Illinois went further than they had ever gone in the NCAA tournament to reach the finals, while UCLA took down the ...more

Go to Coach Dawn's Session on Motivating Female Athletes at the AVCA Convention Saturday!
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted December 16, 2011 at 9:41am

source I wanted to hit pause on the A to Z series so that I can let you know that I’ll be speaking at the AVCA convention this Saturday.  If you’re here in San Antonio, I’d love for you to stop by and hear my talk and most importan...more

UCLA snaps Penn State’s 26-game volleyball tournament winning streak
by Pretty Tough
posted December 12, 2011 at 9:16am

Penn State women’s volleyball team will not win a record fifth consecutive national title. The ninth-seeded Bruins swept Penn State on Friday in the regional semifinals to end the four-time, defending champions’ 26-match winning streak. Set s...more

Ashley and Cameron Kastl making their mark at ASU
by amber0marie
posted November 29, 2011 at 11:19am

Ashley (volleyball) and Cameron (football) Kastl have both had to face significant challenges on their way to athletic success at Arizona State. Through it all, they have looked to each other for support. (Video by Amber Harding for PAC-12.org) ...more

Newly Crowned as Miss Oregon, Alaina Bergsma Leads Oregon Ducks Volleyball into NCAA Tournament
by Pretty Tough
posted November 28, 2011 at 1:35am

For decades, women have fought an uphill battle to be taken seriously as athletes. Alaina Bergsma gets that. The 6-foot-3 outside hitter for the Oregon volleyball team is considered one of the top offensive threats in the Pac-12, if not the entire countr...more

NCAA VB: #5 Stanford Drops to #15 Oregon in Five
by Bethany
posted November 19, 2011 at 1:01pm

The match up between the #15 Oregon Ducks and #5 Stanford Cardinal brought a battle to Maples Pavilion with Oregon pulling the upset on Stanford in five sets (23-25, 25-20, 25-14, 22-25, 15-9). To add to the battle, both teams also managed to receive a ye...more

NCAA VB Weekend Update: #1 Nebraska Falls
by Bethany
posted November 1, 2011 at 5:38pm

#8 Penn State Defeats #1 Nebraska in Four...more

NCAA VB Weekend Update: #2 Cal Drops Both Weekend Matches
by Bethany
posted November 1, 2011 at 4:16pm

#2 Cal Drops to Both #6 UCLA and #4 USC...more

NCAA Volleyball: #4 Nebraska Takes Down #1 Illinois in Four
by Bethany
posted October 23, 2011 at 10:38am

#4 Nebraska hosted #1 ranked Illinois in their home gym Saturday evening, battling to win the upset in four (24-26, 25-18, 25-19, 25-11)....more

NCAA Volleyball: Florida Gators Take Down South Carolina Gamecocks In Three
by Bethany
posted October 20, 2011 at 12:59am

Tonight the South Carolina Gamecocks hosted the #13 Florida Gators in their Volleyball Competition Facility, where the Gators ate up the Gamecocks in three sets (25-13, 25-18, 25-23)....more

NCAA Women’s Volleyball: Illinois Survives Michigan State, Stanford Tops Washington
by Bethany
posted October 16, 2011 at 10:36pm

Recapping matches from Saturday played by the top 10 ranked teams:...more

Friday Night Highlights in NCAA Women’s Volleyball: Oct. 14
by Bethany
posted October 15, 2011 at 3:03pm

A quick recap of the top 5 teams who competed on Friday evening...more

Super Stanford Sports Day Recapped!
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 11, 2011 at 3:17pm

C and R just had the most enjoyable Friday night at Stanford that didn’t involve women’s basketball. What we did see was the Stanford Women’s Volleyball team beat four-time defending champs Penn State and the Stanford Women’s Soccer Team beat defe...more

Super Stanford Women’s Sports Day!
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 8, 2011 at 12:10am

Well, Stanford Women’s Basketball has not started yet but there are other women’s sports we can watch, and this Friday, September 9th there is a perfect storm of Stanford Sports on the Farm. The Stanford Women’s Volleyball team is taking on defendin...more

Turkish volleyball player verbally and physically attacked in Istanbul bus‏ for wearing shorts
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted August 31, 2011 at 1:25pm

Nineteen-year-old Turkish volleyball player, Nurcan İbrahimoğlu, has confessed that she was verbally and physically attacked in Istanbul last July 28th inside a bus because she was wearing basketball shorts. Following this, on 13th of August, A gr...more