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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!

https://fightinghawks.com/sports/womens-volleyball/roster?path=wvball No Lindqvist, Carney, Julson, Pribyl, or Ward. Sewell is still listed but don’t think she will be back next fall.

Looks like Sewell is no longer on the team. Social media posts saying she’s graduated and no longer on the team. Guessing with Timperly coming in, she may have seen the writing on the wall. Not sure who else is leaving at the roster is still full online even though they should have started last week. Carney was MIA at the end of the season, so not sure where she stands. Also, Jordan Vail is no longer on the list of coaching staff, it just says TBD. Wonder who they are looking at for that position.

No Kortney Carney for the tournament? Anyone know anything?

3 starters didn’t play according to the stats. Olson, Carney, and Barber. Resting before the conference tournament? Don’t want to give anyone more film at the end of the year? Like a certain match up better as a 6 seed? I wonder if we’ll see Stockman, Ward, and ???? Sit on Saturday? I understand the logic, but unless Barber is nursing an injury I feel like she needs the reps… You also need 100% buy in from the team if you’re going to throw a match or two. And ending on a 5 match losing streak could cause some confidence issues. I like the confidence from the staff, and excited to see if it works next weekend! Should be a fun tournament, hope all the matches are free to watch online.

Not sure… her Instagram says UNDVB commit, and she posted her signing day yesterday. Maybe she signed a few days late so they didn’t include her? They usually announce walk ons as well as scholarship. Also, only two seniors recognized last night. Sierra Ward and Taylor Pribyl. So we get Stockman for another year?!?! That would be great news!

She’s a Tiffin recruit, who Tupac kept.

Also, are we in the conference tourney for sure?

Lots of thoughts: Fun game to watch. Lots of challenges and almost a 3 hour match, so exactly what you’d expect from a rivalry game. Errors seemed to be the story. NDSU had a lot of hitting and serving errors the first 2 sets, but squeaked a win in set 2 because Lopez won 3 challenges. NDSU had 12 blocks to UND’s 3 during the 3rd set. NDSU would have won that by 8 points if they could have kept their serves in. Stockman was on fire the first set, but UND quit setting her until the 4th, which then they won easily. Not sure if it was due to not passing well or what. UND didn’t get anything from their other middles! NDSU pulled their setter in the 4th, it looked like Lopez wanted to light a fire under her butt, which worked because she was GOOD in the 5th. Set 5 UND just fell apart. Couldn’t pass, miscommunications, and hitting errors. Norris, Olson, and Stockman were really good, no one else did much. Hornyak got smoked in the face during set 3, laid on the floor for 30 seconds and the trainer didn’t even take her off the court. Looked like an easy concussion to me, but they didn’t even run her through the tests…. She seemed pretty out of it the rest of the match, so hopefully it isn’t another Chwialkowski situation like last year.