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Volleyball Mustangs rally past Solvay (Cnylink)
By a slim margin, the Marcellus girls volleyball team avoided the upset bid of the Solvay Bearcats last Wednesday night as a great rivalry was reborn. Down 0-2 in games, and

No. 5 Women’s Volleyball Sweeps No. 18 Purdue, Advances To NCAA Regional Final (GoPSUsports.com)
SEATTLE, WASH.; December 8, 2006 – The fifth-ranked Penn State women’s volleyball team needed only an hour and 17 minutes to sweep No. 18 Purdue (30-24, 30-18, 30-15) in the NCAA Regional Semifinals Friday night in Seattle, Wash. The Nittany Lions improve to 32-2 while the Boilermakers end their season at 23-11.

Women's volleyball set for regional match (Penn State Collegian)
The markings are somewhere on Nicole Fawcett's forehead: 19-19. They're there, all right, just look hard. Can't find them? Has the relative ease with which the Penn State women's volleyball team moved through the season blinded you? Become too comfortable with where the team is right now?

UCLA advances to NCAA Regional volleyball final (Honolulu Advertiser)
Nana Meriweather had a match-high 17 kills to lead No. 4 UCLA to a 30-22, 30-16, 30-26 victory over No. 13 Oklahoma Friday in an NCAA Women's Volleyball Tournament regional semifinal at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Volleyball Tickets Sell Out; Huskers In Florida (KETV.com)
Next week's NCAA volleyball Final Four at Qwest Center Omaha is a sellout again, and local fans are hoping the Huskers will be in Omaha.

Volleyball: The importance of imports (Los Angeles Daily News)
With USC's women's volleyball team losing nearly 60 percent of its offensive production to graduation, coach Mick Haley attempted to fill the voids in his lineup by exploring the junior-college circuit and searching for European players, tworecruiting trails that have led the Women of Troy to past glory.

Cal volleyball team faces monumental challenge (Contra Costa Times)
When Cal's women's volleyball team knocked off Cal Poly last weekend to advance to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament, it was the first time the Bears had beaten a team ranked ahead of them all season.


Volleyball Commentary

When is it TOO Much?
One forum reader has a problem. Her daughter plays volleyball. "She tried out and made a new club VB team whose season runs Dec-Jun, two practices per week, 2-3...

Injury prevention - Landing Techniques
One of the worse things that can happen to a player is to hurt themselves. In our sport of volleyball, injuries are seldom minor and will take you out...

Focus on the Positive
"Visualization can help you a great deal. Your last outing was very positive, so you need to visualize your performance on that day repeatedly. Another technique you can use is...

Step-by-Steps Approach to Spiking; The Secret to Fooling Your Opponents.
An effective team has several different methods of attacks in their arsenal. The three basic attacks are; the dink, the off-speed spike and the hard-driven spike. The dink...

Keep up On Passing
Is your season over? Are you playing next year? Maybe you will be playing in clubs this winter? Whatever the case, one of the best things you can do...

The Finer Points on Passing
Learn some of the finer points of passing from one of the best Libero's in the world, Team USA's, Eric Sullivan. Eric Sullivan was the first Libero on the...

Steps to Developing that Ideal Volleyball Player
It is our responsibility as coaches to not only make our players aware of the mental skills needed to succeed in competition, but also to teach them how to develop...

Ten Tips for Coaching Survival
I have made so many coaching mistakes. However, I hope that I am now avoiding many of the errors that I made when I was younger. Here are some of...


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