loyalundfan

How did the scrimmage look? I was hoping to make it but no dice.

One middle, Trinity Blackwell, just committed to Texas Women’s University. Haven’t heard of any others, but could happen in a few months when spring is over. I think they have a freshman on campus this spring though. Mariana Riviera. Not sure what position, though hopefully middle!

Mom is Brenda slight who played for the Bison

Missing tournament sucks, but we were more competitive with the top teams this year than the last 3-4 years. Girls look like they enjoy every point, and have great energy. We will miss our middles ( stockman A LOT), but seems like everyone else will be back, which also helps cohesion and trust. Still looking forward to the future!

Article from December 2021 before Tupac was hired. Barber committed and signed with previous staff. https://fightinghawks.com/news/2021/12/14/womens-volleyball-und-volleyball-adds-four-signees.aspx 2019 roster- Gayle was on team. Might have even been a Pryor recruit. https://fightinghawks.com/sports/womens-volleyball/roster/2019 And thought stockman transferred after 2021 season before Tupac was hired, but could be wrong on her. Timperly committed to Tiffin (her Instagram says committed September of 2021), but all other freshmen this year are Tupacs. De Jong, Lugo, and O’Dell are the only three non freshmen that I can see that didn’t have a commitment on their Instagram before Tupacs hiring.

Well, the loss tonight sealed it if it hadn’t already. Tonight was bad, another 0-3 loss with no line up changes. Gayle consistently hitting .000 or negative, so Olson must not have the coaches trust for some reason. Potentially because she’s not a good passer, but Gayle was aced twice tonight with no blocks… Only announced 1 on signing day yesterday, so that means everyone is coming back but the two middles, or they have transfers in mind. Again, it’s only year two, and 3 of the staff is new this year, so it is still a building year and a learning process, even though it is a disappointment. Almost everyone on the court are last staffs recruits (McCormick, Norris, Timperly, Gayle, Barber, Stockman, Hornyak) so once they have their recruits in, we’ll get to see what their style/type is! Next year has to have some improvement, in my opinion!

Lost to St. Thomas today in 4 sets.

This loss puts UND down two to SDSU for that final conference tournament spot. A lot can still happen, but this was a BIG one. Uninspired volleyball tonight. Does McCormick bring all the energy? Lots of mistakes. Norris and Gayle not good again, and Olson doesn’t see action. No timeouts taken in 4th set loss. Middles were the bright spot. Love watching Stockman play and O’dell had a good match!

Lost to Denver in 5 tonight, an improvement from 0-3 earlier this year. 3rd set was 38-36, I think the longest set I’ve ever seen. Anyone confused why Ashlynn Olson isn’t playing? Keeping tabs on stats or two right sides, Norris and Gayle, consistently are hitting negative or close to zero for most matches. Olson has been our #1 hitter for the last two seasons, and she hasn’t gotten a chance. Must not have better practice stats or something. Just curious

Can we go 2-0 vs NDSU in 4 days? I think yes. NDSU lost to St. Thomas on Saturday, so hopefully we can capitalize on that. We beat them there last year. Hopefully we don’t have anyone else out with injuries. Be confident and break our mini losing streak!

Played well, blocking was phenomenal! Too bad serve receive broke down at the end of the 5th. Pink jerseys were very fun! Anyone notice how every game there are different girls on bench not dressed in uniform with headphones on? I can only imagine it’s concussions, but do we really have that many who get hit in the head?

Ladies played great last night, just a couple more plays go our way and we get a win vs. one of the top teams in the summit who just beat USD. seems like defense is set up to dig hard hit balls so they are far back, which means the tips are harder to get. Looks like they are back on their heels, so it’s harder to run forward to get them. new rule the last few years is they can wear whatever they want on their lower body as long as it matches (all the same color). I like it, would probably make a lot of them more comfortable!

They didn’t look good last night. Hornyak on the bench in crutches. McCormick also wasn’t dressed. Someone else was in a boot (Rivière perhaps). That could be why ball control was bad, but overall rough start to conference. Need to play better Saturday otherwise could lose to 2 teams picked lower than them in preseason pool.

On the summit league network!

I can understand why some fans wouldn’t be pleased, but I’m wondering how anyone here knows how the coaches and players are feeling.

How would anyone know this? I could see having this opinion 3-4 weeks into conference.

Non conference is so subjective. Strength of schedule, teams with injuries, resting players, changing lineups. This week is when we really so how they stack up!

Lost in 3 to norther Iowa yesterday. Some subs were made at the end of the 3rd set. Lipetzki and Olson got in. They play Dayton today at noon. Hopefully ESPN+ works on my phone (been having issues….) Dayton is good, best NDSU in 4, so it’ll be good to see how we match up. side note: Green Bay took USD to 5 sets!

lost in 3 to UNI. no line up changes from last weekend.

New Mexico is good. #88 in RPI, we are in the 200’s. I thought they played them tough. First set was phenomenal, but couldn’t sustain the energy, and both teams settled down for the rest of the match. #8 for UNM was fun to watch! Interesting that or two upperclassmen who have been on the court for two years didn’t play (Hornyak and Olsen). But figured out what happened to Gayle. Looked like a broken/dislocated/sprained pinkie.

Does anyone know what happened?

She’s wasn’t at the scrimmage either. I’m hoping she didn’t get injured again, she’s had a rough go of it. looks like they switched up line ups for the three matches this weekend, so I wonder if they are playing around with rotations until they find one they like. Good problem to have if there are 3-4 decent options!

Seems about right, that’s where we ended last year. I think we’ll finish better, but preseason polls are kind of just guessing based on returners. We’ve improved the roster quite a bit since last fall, which they don’t really take into account. Hopefully it’ll give the team some motivation to end up higher than this!

Can’t wait to get in the gym and see their new talent. Looks like they’ll have some big arms in the middle with the MSU transfer and the Texas freshman, so hopefully more stability in the middle opposite of Stockman. Norris and Timperly in the 6/2? Anyone at the scrimmage to see what their top line up looks like? I’m excited to see if Izzy McCormick will step into the libero role that Carney had last year. I wonder if preseason will look like last year where every set had a different lineup.

There will be quite a competition for the starting middle position! Unless we have someone leaving after this spring, I count 6 middles. Gr. Stockman So. Lipetzki So. Ortkqvist Fr. Blackwell Transfer O’Dell Transfer De Los Santos should be fun!