In this edition of Volleyball Today, we’ve got the final AVCA regular-season top 25, some postseason conference honors, a look at the World Beach Pro Tour finals in Doha, and a report on USA women playing internationally. With so many Americans now staying home to play LOVB or Pro Volleyball Federation, you’ll see some different names of former NCAA standouts in the mix.
But first here’s the link you need to watch the start of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. All the matches will be shown on ESPN+, for which you need a subscription. For what it’s worth, ESPN+ comes with a Disney Plus subscription and that way you can watch the new Beatles documentary.
AVCA Division I Women’s Volleyball Poll
The final regular-season poll showed Pittsburgh still at No. 1, this time with 59 of the 61 first-place votes. Penn State, up two spots to No. 2, got a vote and so did Nebraska, down a spot to No. 3.
Louisvllle is fourth and Stanford is No. 5.
There was shuffling, but no major movement. BYU moved back in at No. 24 and North. Carolina dropped out.
Click here for the complete AVCA top 25.
Big leagues post-season honors
College volleyball is dominated by four conferences, the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and SEC (oh, the Pac-12, we miss you). To wit: Our USA Olympic team that won silver in Paris consisted only of players who went to college in one of those four conferences. The only almost exception was Jordan Thompson, who went to Cincinnati, which at the time was in the American Athletic Conference but is now in the Big 12.
The ACC announced its postseason honors Monday and Pitt right side Olivia Babcock is the ACC Player of the Year, Louisville libero Elena Scott is the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, Stanford’s Kami Miner is the ACC Setter of the Year and Louisville’s Nayelis Cabello is the ACC Freshman of the Year. Pitt’s Dan Fisher is the ACC Coach of the Year.
Click here for the story and all-ACC teams.
The SEC announced its honors Sunday and Brooklyn DeLeye of Kentucky is the SEC Volleyball Player of the Year, somehow beating out Florida’s Kennedy Martin. Maya Sands of Missouri is the Libero of the Year. Mychael Vernon of Missouri is the Newcomer of the Year and Jaela Auguste of Florida is the Freshman of the Year. Kentucky’s Craig Skinner is SEC Coach of the Year.
Click here for the story and all-SEC teams.
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