2020/2021 Proposed Volleyball Rules Changes

The NCAA Women’s Volleyball Rules Committee recently sent out a number of proposed rules changes to the volleyball conference commissioners and head coaches. These proposed rules changes were approved by the committee in its annual meeting earlier this year. The rules still have to be approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel but they……

DIII Legislation Results

The 2020 NCAA Convention was this past week where they voted on 11 proposals specific to DIII. You can find the proposals here. With respect to volleyball, there wasn’t a lot that impacted our sport. There was a proposal that passed that will allow student-athletes serving as leaders on their teams to participate in leadership……

West Region’s Lack of Depth

I think it’s time to take a serious look at the state of the West Region. We have now had two straight years without a West Regional and frankly that is a damning accusation by the NCAA that the region lacks quality depth. I wanted to look into this and see if they are correct.……

Linfield Hires New Coach

Welcome to the West Region, Coach Haley Doefler! Linfield has announced the hiring of Coach Doefler to lead the Wildcats volleyball team effective later this month. The school’s announcement can be found here. Coach Doefler comes from Seattle Pacific University where she spent the last year as an assistant. She ended her playing career at……

NCAA News & Notes

The DIII Presidents Meeting will occur next week and there is always some interesting things that come out of that. One item that will be discussed/reviewed is the realignment proposal that comes out of the “Sport Review Project”. As a reminder, the plan is to move from 8 regions to 10 in volleyball as early……

2020 Recruits are Up!

The 2020 Recruit Page is now up on the left hand side (for those on a computer). It’s in the pull down for other platforms. This page is one of my most popular as I try to find all of the student-athletes that have committed to a West Region program going into the 2020 season.……

La Verne Looking for New Coach

It appears that La Verne will not be giving Interim Head Coach Jeff Hendershot the permanent gig this upcoming season. A job posting has been issued for the position. No news from the school as far as I can find and Coach Hendershot’s information is still on the team site. I actually had Coach Hendershot……

Statistics Loss – Everyone Else

This is my last statistics loss article for this outgoing year as today we focus on the teams outside of the West Region as well as sneaking in the two teams from the West that play in the ACAA. Instead of linking to the other statistics loss articles already posted, I suggest you just go……

Statistics Loss – ASC

Small note…I didn’t intend for there to be a big gap in the middle of these statistic losses articles. The holidays got me and then my son and I took a spur of the moment trip to London to watch a number of soccer games. We got back yesterday and I’m currently a tad sleep……

Linfield’s Josh Davis Steps Down

Linfield’s Head Coach Josh Davis announced last month that he is stepping down to pursue other professional opportunities. Coach Davis was with the program for two years. You can find a short announcement from the school, here. You can also find another account, here, which goes into a little bit of the struggles the program……