Hawaii women’s volleyball: Wahine receive votes in AVCA Top 25
The AVCA released the preseason NCAA women’s volleyball Top 25 poll today.
Hawaii received 13 points, worth an unofficial rank of 32nd along with Northern Iowa.
Stanford was near unanimous at No. 1 with 62 first-place votes. Nebraska had one first-place vote as well as No. 8 Penn State.
Ranked teams on the Wahine schedule are:
13. Washington; 20. Baylor; 21. San Diego; 23. Cal Poly
Missouri was just out of the Top 25 at 26, while UCLA received 7 votes, 35th most.
It’s the second straight year the Wahine were not in the preseason top 25. Last year, they had 27 points for 34th.
#AVCA Top-25:
1. Stanford
2. Neb
3. Minn
4. Texas
5. Wisc
6. Illinois
7. Kentucky
8. Penn St
9. BYU
10. Florida
11. Oregon
12. Pitt
13. Wash
14. USC
15. Mich
16. Marquette
17. Purdue
18. Creighton
19. Tenn
20. Baylor
21. USD
22. Wash St.
23. Cal Poly
24. Arizona
25. Louisville— AVCA (@AVCAVolleyball) August 13, 2019
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AVCA Top 25 is coming out today
complete poll supposed to be out 9 a.m. HST
@AVCAVolleyball
They teased it on Twitter in reverse order
No. 10 Florida
No. 9 BYU
No. 8 Penn State
No. 7 Kentucky
No. 6 Illinois
No. 5 Wisconsin
No. 4 Texas
No. 3 Minnesota
No. 2 Nebraska
No. 1 Stanford
https://www.avca.org/polls/di-women/8-13-2019.html
Wahine voted #32 behind Cal Poly at #23…..but ahead of UCLA at #35
Cindy have you attended any more practices? Any observations to share?
1. yes, updated that above per our style
Lots of opportunity for Wahine to move up with matches against 6 teams receiving votes – Washington, Baylor, San Diego, Cal Poly, Missouri and UCLA. Shaping up to be an exciting season.
Preseason poll is meaningless. The girls know what they got to do.
Why have the practice videos stopped? Can’t find any new ones on Twitter or the other TV channel websites. To increase the hype and interest, post more awesome videos! I wanna see Igiede and Westerberg make craters in the floor on stepout moves! 🙂
2. yes i have. Mostly been just reps. Serving drills. Passing drills. blocking drills
Sunday no jumping.
They are off today (Tuesday).
not really much to report. Freshmen continue to look good. Krug moving well, espeically coming off knee surgery from spring. Everyone battling it out, as Ah Mow says, no one has a guaranteed starting position.
6. guess you’d have to ask TV channels about videos
spectrum hasn’t shown up. Hawaii News Now came Monday morning.
We shot a few Saturday. Mostly from Brian McInnis and Dennis Oda. Think I did one.
UH has done some from practices.
To be honest with you, my job is not to do hype.
Thank you Cindy.
I dunno if the pre-season polls take into account the transfers or international players coming in, but I know we will surprise the women’s collegiate volleyball world this season. Polls are …. but still, it was nice when the Men were #1, even for those few weeks.
4…I agree with your view….I am glad we received votes and at #32. After witnessing the Spring Match against #4 Texas, I was not very impressed with Texas. The Bows competed very well against Texas ( the “Jolie Rasmussen” show) but now with the added summer transfers (Bailey/Brooke), with the host of very talented Freshman class, and all the returnees all coming back in their best shape…BEWARE!!!
All they need to do is compete hard and win those crucial preseason matches and that will speak volumes for polls sake. Can’t wait!!!!
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As good as it was, the team wasn’t at full capacity due to the flu bug that afflicted the team and Skyler having to be the only middle blocker available. Having overworked Skyler pretty much made it difficult for the Wahine to keep up with the Longhorns in terms of blocking. Once regular season hits abound, the question remains to who they’ll use as their second middle in the lineup. Krug has experience, having played last year, and 3 (Possible) freshmen middles. Which is it?
It’s going to be a curious season for sure as we head into Robyn’s 4th season.
CL
When does the Big West come out with their preseason poll? Is Tiff Wells again a pollster this season?
Should be a competitive conference season.
Is Reilly still here? Ang spoke about 4 True Frosh but I thought that there were5?Wagoner still here?
12. Big West poll out Wednesday, 9 a.m HST
Tiff does not vote on the Big West poll. It’s a coaches poll.
Tiff votes on Off The Block men’s poll. I have in the past as well.
13. Wagoner is here. Ljungqvist did not say four freshmen. I wrote that I made the mistake of typing four, not five, and forgot to mention Wagoner. (It’s Riley, BTW)
I mentioned my mistake in earlier post.
https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=50592
another thread up here with short feature on Sky Williams’ serve.
Kind of thinking way ahead of time ,but i wonder if Lang and Via (2020 commits) will be making a trip down to Waco when the Wahine take on Baylor and Missouri. I think they live about 2 hrs away.
Little over 2 weeks first serve, can’t wait. Hopefully by the time Wahine starts Conf play they are in the top 25.
https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=50607
new thread up on big west poll