EIVA TEAMS POSTED

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The EIVA All East Selection Committee has announced the 2004 All East team. Nine players plus a libero (ten players total) compose each of the first and second teams. The teams follow. Also named were the Uvaldo Acosta Memorial EIVA Player of the Year and EIVA Newcomer of the Year, which were won by Penn State’s Keith Kowal and Alex Gutor respectively.

2004 ALL EAST TEAM
First Team
Keith Kowal Penn State MB 6’5” Jr. Reading, PA 4.70 P/G .572 hit %
Nate Meerstein Penn State MB 6’9” So. Pittsburgh, PA 3.41 P/G .516 hit %
Dan O’Dell Penn State S 6’7” So. Rochester, NY 13.38 A/G .346 team hit %
Aleks Ondelj Rutgers-Newark S 6’5” Sr. Orlando, FL 13.06 A/G .297 team hit %
Andrew Pink Rutgers-Newark OH 6’4” Jr. Evanston, IL 4.90 P/G 1.40 D/G
Matt Proper Penn State Opp 6’6” So. Guys Mills, PA 3.93 P/G 0.31 SA/G
Henry Richardson Rutgers-Newark MB 6’7” So. Lewiston, NY 2.99 P/G .418 hit %
Kevin Wentzel Penn State OH 6’4” So. Pittsburgh, PA 3.68 P/G .308 hit %
Ricky Ziegler Juniata S 6’5” Jr. Manchester, PA 13.51 A/G .322 team hit %

Ricky Mattei Penn State L 5’11” Sr. San Juan, PR 2.34 D/G .962 rec %

Second Team
Felix Campos George Mason OH 6’3” Jr. Puerto Nuevo, PR 5.86 P/G 1.34 D/G
Brian Dinning Juniata Opp 6’5” Sr. Pittsburgh, PA 4.01 P/G 0.56 SA/G
Kenny Eiser Juniata MB 6’4” Sr. Doylestown, PA 4.91 P/G .465 hit %
Alex Gutor Penn State OH 6’3” Fr. Irving, TX 2.72 P/G .306 hit %
Brian Hamming Princeton MB 6’9” So. Lake Forest, IL 4.17 P/G .479 hit %
Brain Honsberger Rutgers-Newark OH 6’5” So. Lancaster, NY 3.24 P/G 0.90 D/G
Brandon Mueller Springfield OH 6’2” Jr. Bartlett, IL 5.87 P/G 1.31 D/G
Blake Robinson Princeton OH 6’4” Jr. Aliso Viejo, CA 4.90 P/G 1.61 D/G
Matt Steinfurth George Mason MB 6’7” So. Portsmouth, VA 3.19 P/G .337 hit %

Eduardo Stawinski Springfield L 5’10” Jr. San Juan, PR 2.44 D/G .957 rec %

Uvaldo Acosta Memorial Player of the Year
Keith Kowal Penn State MB 6’5” Jr. Reading, PA

EIVA Newcomer of the Year
Alex Gutor Penn State OH 6’3” Fr. Irving, TX

[lalalaluuuke]

6 of 7 Penn State Starters on the 1st Team and the 7th on the 2nd Team and Newcomer. Wow. Talk about no balance in a conference. Nothing against them, they are definitely better players compared to the rest of the conference. No surprises why they make it to the Final Four every year though.

[Smooth "954" Mike]

I'm going to agree with you on every word you just said.

[VBfanatic]

I can't believe that Mark Pavlik is happy to be in EIVA. The conference is pretty much worthless for psu.

But don't forget that JUST because of the fact that they make it to the final four every year AND go to hawaii for outrigger tournament, they get a lot of recruits.

I bet Pavlik likes that althou he doesn't admit it.

I think it is time for psu to move out of EIVA or for some strong teams to get into EIVA so they can give psu some competition.

Seriously, how bad would it suck if you were practising and playing hard as a committed player either for rutgers and george mason and know that at the end of the day, you will not be rewarded for it by going to the final four.

[tigfan]

VBfanatic said:

Seriously, how bad would it suck if you were practising and playing hard as a committed player either for rutgers and george mason and know that at the end of the day, you will not be rewarded for it by going to the final four.

It would feel the exact same way as Irvine, Pacific, San Diego, USC, Stanford, Santa Barbara, and Northridge feel in the MPSF... (with RARE exception)

1 of 5 teams is going to win the MPSF every season (BYU, Pepperdine, UCLA, Hawaii, or Long Beach)... the other 7 teams compete for the last 3 playoff spots.