The campaign for Long Beach State outside attacker Taylor Crabb to repeat as the National Player of the Year is off to a quick start.
Crabb had a match-high 19 kills as No. 4 Long Beach State defeated Harvard 25-18, 20-25, 25-19, 25-13 to win the UC Santa Barbara Invitational championship on Saturday in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Good luck trying to predict who will win the biggest individual award in college men’s volleyball for the upcoming season.
The two National Player of the Year winners from last year, BYU outside attacker Taylor Sander and Long Beach State outside attacker Taylor Crabb, return for their senior seasons. However, the field remains wide open in the race for 2014 National Player of the Year.
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It’s that time of year when every team is hopeful, but there are those select teams have good reason to be even more optimistic about their chances of ending the year as NCAA champions.
With the regular season starting in less than a week, several teams begin the year as the favorites to be crowned national champions in May.
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Anyone doubting how tight the race for the MPSF championship could be this season just needs to look at the conference’s preseason coaches poll.
The top four teams all came within nine votes of each other as BYU and Long Beach State finished tied for first place in the MPSF preseason poll released Thursday afternoon.
A nationwide voting committee selected 21 players to the annual Off the Block/Springbak, Inc. Preseason All-American Teams.
The Off the Block/Springbak, Inc. Preseason All-American Teams recognizes the NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball players projected to be the best in the nation during the upcoming season.
The All-American middle attacker who led Long Beach State to its only national championship in program history will now have jersey hanging from the Walter Pyramid rafters.
Long Beach State announced Wednesday that it will retire Brett Winslow’s No. 15 jersey during the upcoming season.