Things will be a little bit bigger at Long Beach State compared to other college men’s volleyball venues starting next season.
Long Beach State announced Wednesday that it will begin installing in Walter Pyramid the nation’s largest wall-mounted video scoreboard for an on-campus college arena.
A former All-American outside attacker will now return to St. Francis to be on the coaching staff.
St. Francis coach Mark Rumbaugh announced Tuesday that he hired Jordan Varee to be an assistant coach for the upcoming season.
An Ohio State associate athletics director will help decide the NCAA Tournament field for the next four years.
The NCAA recently announced that Janine Oman was selected as the Midwest representative on the three-person NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball selection committee.
Coach Kevin Ring is well aware of the challenges of playing in the MPSF but for the UC San Diego there is a reason to be optimistic about the upcoming season.
Ring said in a recent interview with Off the Block that UC San Diego will be a young team next season but is capable of being in the contention for conference tournament berth.
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Winning a national championship in Chicago has its perks.
The defending-NCAA champions Loyola announced Wednesday that it will be honored next week during a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field.
There will be a new team at one of the most prestigious non-conference tournaments in college men’s volleyball next season.
UC Irvine will make its first appearance in program history at the upcoming Outrigger Invitational, which had its four-team tournament field unveiled earlier this week.
For the first time in its program history, Ohio State will be on the road for a non-conference match against Cal Baptist.
Ohio State as part of unveiling its 2015 regular season schedule earlier this week announced that the two teams have agreed to play each other during the open week of the upcoming season.
When coach Kevin Ring put together his team’s non-conference schedule he made sure to include an emerging rival.
Ring said in a recent interview with Off the Block that UC San Diego will play a home-and-home series against Concordia-Irvine during the upcoming season.
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With the school year starting and the second half of the college men’s volleyball off-season here, Off the Block in a new series is examining the successes and challenges currently facing the sport.
Off the Block during the summer conducted a series of interviews with various leaders in the volleyball community to discuss the current state of college men’s volleyball.