There are so many NCAA groups both within the midst of worldwide journeys or planning on them. We’ve acquired an replace from Tim Kelly and Bring It USA.
Since our final NCAA ladies’s volleyball replace on May 15, there have been some teaching transactions, schedule releases and more.
Coaching carousel
UCF promoted Jenny Maurer, who has been the UCF affiliate head coach and recruiting coordinator the final seven years. She takes over for Todd Daganais, who left to turn out to be the pinnacle coach of the Pro Volleyball Federation Atlanta franchise.
Maurer (then Cafazza), who was the pinnacle coach at Bradley when she moved to Orlando, was an All-American setter at Division II Washington University in her hometown of St. Louis. Before going to Bradley, she was head coach at Lehigh, employed at 30.
East Tennessee State employed Delaware State coach Dr. Bruce Atkinson. This previous season, Delaware State gained the MEAC and performed Nebraska within the first spherical of the NCAA Tournament. Atkinson was beforehand head coach at Winthrop, Towson and Hawai’i-Hilo. He takes over a ETSU program that completed 21-8 final season, 15-1 within the SoCon. After the season, fourth-year head coach Benavia Jenkins left for Michigan to be affiliate head coach.
Denver remains to be and not using a coach and now the Summit League program is and not using a setter. Lorrin Poulter transferred to Purdue for her graduate yr and freshman Lauren Carter has transferred to Northwestern.
Denver’s spring roster exhibits two outsides, three proper sides, two center blockers and three liberos. Coach Tom Hogan resigned in early April after lacking many of the 2022 season battling most cancers.
Louisiana-Monroe of the Southland Conference and Dartmouth of the Ivy League are additionally nonetheless and not using a coach.
Schedules
The Big 12 introduced its 2023 slate and, in fact, it has a special look with the addition of Houston, BYU, UCF and Cincinnati. For that matter, the primary match is Wednesday, September 20, when Houston goes to BYU.
Of observe, Texas is dwelling for BYU September 28-29, and performs host to Baylor October 26-27. This is the final season for Texas and Oklahoma earlier than they go to the SEC.
Click right here for the Big 12 information launch and schedule.
The ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC have but to formally announce their schedules, however groups are saying their respective slates. Arkansas and Kentucky, for instance, have tales on their schedules.
The Atlantic 10 and Conference USA schedules should be obtainable, as a result of colleges from these conferences have introduced, together with Western Kentucky.
91,000 for Nebraska?
The Huskers will play Omaha on August 30 within the soccer stadium in Lincoln. As we famous in our story on Aprll 27, there have been more than 82,000 tickets bought in lower than 48 hours.
Now Nebraska AD Trev Albert claims the match may draw a capability 91,000.
“Well we’re pretty excited about it,” Alberts mentioned on the Huskers Radio Network. “Again, we keep pinching ourself going, ‘are you kidding me?’ But we’re still working through a few things, but we actually think that the final total capacity’s gonna be at 91,000.”
Read the whole story at Rival.com’s Inside Nebraska.
On tour with Bring It USA
The locations they’ve been and volleyball tales they’ll inform. This is straight from Tim Kelly of Bring It USA on Monday:
Washington State leaves from Croatia tomorrow.
BYU wrapping up in Athens the following day
Texas Tech leaves from Milan the following day.
Old Dominion from Lisbon the following day.
Tampa from Rome the following day.
SMU from Venice on the 30tt.
USC arrives in Sao Paulo tomorrow.
Loyola in Madrid on the twenty sixth.
Maryland arrives to Maribor on the twenty eighth.
Hawaii arrives to Sao Paulo the identical day.
Bethel is in Costa Rica beginning Monday morning.
The following week will get heavy with the next arrivals:
May 31 — Iowa State, Athens; Cincinnati, Budapest.
June 1 — Creighton, Rome.
June 2 — Auburn, Milan; Rice, Sao Paulo.
June 3 — Wisconsin, Istanbul.
June 4 — Sonoma State, Rome.
The following week:
June 6 — Cornell College, Barcelona; Marquette, Warsaw; Ohio State, Athens.
June 7 — Sacramento State, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; and UCF in Prague.
Later in June now we have:
Georgia Southern (solely group going to Argentina), Louisville (Brazil), Wofford, Colorado, Stanford (Istanbul, Prague Maribor), Metro State, and Fordham (the one DI group going to Japan).
We wrote about touring groups in our final report, together with TK on a camel.
