A coach with multiple NCAA championships and an Olympic gold medal will be on the sidelines for the U.S. Women’s National Team during its biggest international tournament of the year.
USA Volleyball recently announced that Pepperdine coach Marv Dunphy will serve as an assistant coach for the upcoming FIVB Women’s World Championships.
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The college men’s volleyball preseason will open with UC Irvine going up against international teams from China and Brazil.
UC Irvine announced during the weekend that it will play host to SADA Cruziro and Shanghi Tang Dynasty as part of an on-campus exhibition series.
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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.
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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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.
For the first time in its program history, Grand Canyon will not have to travel to play a non-conference match versus a projected top-10 nationally ranked team.
USC announced Thursday that it would open the upcoming season on the road against Grand Canyon in the first meeting between to the two programs in five years.