After another outstanding season, Wittenberg University volleyball team members added more hardware to their trophy cases as the 2003 NCAA Division III All-America teams were announced by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
Another banner fall sports season has reaped tangible rewards for 34 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams.
It's hard to imagine two teams more evenly matched. In the end, as the Wittenberg University Tigers and the Ohio Northern University Polar Bears battled down to the wire before an estimated crowd of 800 fans screaming themselves hoarse in the Wittenberg University HPER Center, it was a shame that someone would have to lose - unless you were a fan of the visiting team.
The Wittenberg University Tigers, champions of the North Coast Athletic Conference and the fifth-ranked team in the nation in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, swept their way into the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Championship game Friday with a 3-0 (30-22, 32-30, 30-15) win over the Alma College Scots.
CLEVELAND -- Wittenberg junior Sarah Yuskewich (Columbus, OH/Bishop Watterson) has been named Player of the Year to highlight the 2003 All-North Coast Athletic Conference volleyball selections. Yuskewich, a 6-0 setter, led the conference in assists with 1303 over 100 games (13.03 apg).
The Wittenberg volleyball team opens NCAA Division III Tournament play this week after winning three straight North Coast Athletic Conference matches last week to capture the NCAC Tournament title.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio The Wittenberg volleyball team has participated in the NCAA Division III Tournament in each of the last eight years and nine times overall. However, never have the Tigers won a national title, hence the motto regularly heard around the HPER Center, "Unfinished Business."
The No. 1 seeded Wittenberg Tigers were outstanding again, putting the finishing touches on yet another perfect North Coast Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championship with a 3-0 victory over Hiram at the HPER Center in Springfield.
The No. 1 seed, Wittenberg University, overwhelmed the No. 4 seed Denison University in the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament semifinals on Friday evening at Wittenberg's HPER Center. The Tigers, who have won eight of the last 10 NCAC tournament titles, including the last six consecutively, advanced to the NCAC Tournament championship match on Saturday with the win, where they will face the winner of tonight's other semifinal between Allegheny College and Hiram College.
The No. 1 seed, Wittenberg University, overwhelmed the No. 8 seed Ohio Wesleyan University in the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinals on Tuesday evening at Wittenberg's HPER Center.
The Wittenberg volleyball team is once again preeminent in the North Coast Athletic Conference after clinching a seventh consecutive conference regular season title with a perfect 8-0 record, but the Tigers have a lot of work to do.
CLEVELAND -- Wittenberg's Monica McDonald and Sarah Yuskewich head a list of stellar student-athletes named to the North Coast Athletic Conference's 20th Anniversary volleyball team. McDonald and Yuskewich are the only two members of the squad still actively competing. Thus far this season, the pair have led the Tigers to a perfect 8-0 conference record and the number one seed heading into the annual NCAC Tournament.
Last weekend, the Wittenberg volleyball team hosted a tournament that included one of the strongest fields in the nation in 2003, and the Tigers proved once again they belong among the elite of NCAA Division III.
The Wittenberg University volleyball team hosts the Wittenberg National Invitational II this weekend, featuring one of the strongest regular season fields anywhere in the nation.
The Wittenberg volleyball team is rolling at just the right time, and now the Tigers may have the proper momentum heading into the loaded Wittenberg National Invitational II this weekend at the HPER Center.
The Wittenberg University volleyball team hosts its annual Wittenberg Invitational this weekend, featuring the usual array of high-quality competition.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Defending champion Wittenberg University emerged as the preseason favorite in balloting by North Coast Athletic Conference volleyball coaches conducted via email ballot. Wittenberg, which rolled to a perfect 8-0 conference record and earned its sixth consecutive NCAC tournament championship last fall, earned seven of eight* first-place votes from league coaches to top Allegheny. The Gators earned the final first-place vote. Denison was tabbed third, while Hiram and Wooster were picked fourth and fifth, respectively.
The Wittenberg University volleyball team hosts the Wittenberg National Volleyball Invitational this weekend, featuring the usual array of high-quality competition.
After an offseason in which a coaching change occurred and three of the finest players in school history graduated, the Wittenberg University volleyball program is entering a year of optimistic transition. Head Coach Paco Labrador plans to sustain Wittenberg's tradition of excellence with fresh ideas and a formidable roster headlined by 2002 All-Americans Monica McDonald and Sarah Yuskewich.