Stanford's 2007 Schedule

[hwy101]

From the Stanford athletics website:

gostanford.cstv.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/013007aaa.html

Stanford Releases 2007 Women's Volleyball Schedule
Cardinal will play 15 matches against top-25 teams.

Jan. 30, 2007

Stanford, Calif. - Stanford women's volleyball head coach John Dunning has announced the schedule for the upcoming 2007 volleyball season. The Cardinal squad, which advanced to the 2006 NCAA Championship match, is set to take on another one of the most challenging line-ups in the nation. Stanford will face 10 teams that finished last season ranked in the AVCA Top-25 and 13 teams that advanced to the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

The Cardinal kicks off the 2007 season on the road, heading to Long Beach State for the season-opener on Aug. 25. The team then travels to Minneapolis, Minn. to compete in a Labor Day weekend tournament hosted by No. 6 Minnesota. In addition to the Cardinal and the host Golden Gophers, No. 14 San Diego and No. 25 Ohio will compete in the three-day event.

Stanford opens the home season the following weekend, hosting the annual Stanford Invitational in Maples Pavilion, Sept. 6-8. This year's line-up includes Saint Mary's as well as No. 17 Cal Poly and No. 20 BYU.

On Sept. 12, the Cardinal meets Cincinnati on the road, before heading to a tournament hosted by Yale in New Haven, Conn. On Sept. 14 the Cardinal will begin tournament action with Hartford, and will have a chance to square off with No. 5 Penn State the following evening.

The Cardinal begins its defense of the Pac-10 title on Sept. 21, battling Bay Area rival California in Berkeley. The Pac-10 will again provide a challenging agenda, as half of the conference finished 2006 in the top-25 and seven teams return from NCAA Tournament appearances. Three teams from the Pac-10, including the Cardinal, appeared in the 2006 Final Four.

Stanford's conference schedule is highlighted by home meetings with the other Pac-10 powerhouses. Stanford opens up home Pac-10 action with No. 8 USC on Sept. 27. Fellow Final Four participants UCLA and Washington will visit the Farm on Sept. 28 and Oct. 12, respectively, while the team closes out regular-season action with No. 13 California on Nov. 23.


The complete 2007 Stanford women's volleyball schedule is available:
gostanford.cstv.com/sports/w-volley/sched/stan-w-volley-sched.html

[sasa]

This is a great schedule. Along with Pac-10 competition, they throw in Long Beach, Minnesota, Cal Poly and Penn State. Anyone know what other teams are in the Minnesota tournament?

[sasa]

...never mind, just re-read original post. Two more great teams to compete with in San Diego and Ohio.

[5100]

Is Nji Nnamani still with the team this year or did she graduate already?

[Nutter]

ericplim said:

Is Nji Nnamani still with the team this year or did she graduate already?

She's a senior. She's used up her eligibility. Don't know if she's graduated though.

[ims2pidladat]

Are they going to show the Stanford-Penn State game? Seems like that is going to be a good match. Stanford with Klineman and Barboza and Penn State with Hodge and Fawcett. WHOO! damn, get some hoses ready, they might start a fire with their hot hitting! LOL.

[cbrown1709]

That would be awesome if they would broadcast that match-up.

[HOLIDAY]

No Nebraska or Texas??

[Tex_VB_Fan]

Nice schedule. Good mix of home and away matches.

[OverAndUnder]

In the long run, their match with PSU will probably help PSU more than it will help Stanford. The best that that could happen to Rose's squad is for them to be humiliated in the preseason, giving them enough anger and drive to maybe make it through the first two weeks of December for the first time in many years.

[tsunami]

At this point, I think Stanford and Nebraska have separated themselves from the rest of the league. It's a possibility that a rematch between Stanford and Nebraska down the road for the national title will happen. Unless Texas, Florida, Penn State, USC, and Hawaii wake up and play some amazing volleyball.

[jgrout]

Neither Penn State-Stanford season opening match (the State Farm (?) final in 1997, the NACWAA semi-final in 2005) seemed particularly special to me. Except for the end of Game 1 (where Stanford built a 29-23 lead and lost 29-31), their five-game loss to the Nittany Lions in the middle match of the 2004 Stanford Invitational at Burnham Pavilion might have been the clearest sign that Stanford would pull things together before

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