Colorado College Announces Coach

Colorado College has just announced their 8th Head Volleyball Coach in their history and it’s Sharon Dingman. Coach Dingman was most recently the coach of the University of Chicago for the past 6-seasons and has 30 years of experience at both the DI and DIII levels. During her time at Chicago, Dingman had a 144-55……

I’m Not Mad

One rule I implemented for this fall season (only) was that I wasn’t going to complain about school’s schedules. Long-time readers know that schedules are a big talking point with me and that I get pretty upset when (for instance) West Region teams that have a chance at an at-large bid don’t play a schedule……

Emily Hayes Steps Down (Lewis & Clark)

Emily Hayes is now the former Head Coach of Lewis & Clark as it was announced by Bates College that she has taken their open Head Coach position. Bates College plays in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) with schools like Bowdoin and Tufts. Bates is in Lewiston Maine so Hayes is really……

West Region Returners (2021)

One of the series of articles I’ve written in the past attempted to highlight the returning players going into the new season. This is a difficult assignment because often rosters are not published this early in the process. For some reason coaches like to wait until all their players are on campus before releasing the……

Anniversary (Again!?!)

Look who’s four today! That’s right, I’m almost out of diapers! (Oddly, this almost became true due to the number of times I was having to get up at night while on chemo.) Time to look back at the year that was. Normally, we would see how the website has grown but that will not……

Tuesday Musings

Southwestern hired a new assistant coach (Tara Wulf) to replace Sarah Palmer who left for the east coast earlier this year. Tara is a former Baylor player, which as a TCU fan this is obviously going to cause problems in our relationship. I, for some reason, didn’t receive an interview for the position and I……

Tournament Preview (Week 2)

This is our second look at the tournaments the West Region (or Region X) will be playing in to start the season. These tournaments will start on September 10th. With the change to the ASC conference alignment (moving from 11-teams and 2 divisions to a single 10-team division), a number of these schools will already……

D3VbWest Top 25

Let’s start this Top 25 off by saying there isn’t anyone in the world that can in anyway form or fashion put together a DIII Volleyball Top 25. Then, of course, there is me. Alright, I admit this Top 25 isn’t worth anything, either. With a number of schools missing out in 2020 and spring……

Tournament Preview (Week 1)

I started feeling better so I thought about some website content. A number of things I did back in July/August 2019 and prior I can’t do this year because they are roster related. Not to mention, we basically lost an entire season while a number of teams did lose a season. So, while I figure……

Scheduling Issues

I had been hearing that schools were still having some difficulties scheduling for the fall 2021 season so I thought I would reach out to some coaches to see where they are at and whether they had experienced any unique issues. I certainly can understand how this upcoming season would prove difficult in scheduling. There……