Patriot League 2024

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Last Year’s Results:

School	PL	Pct.	Overall	Ovr. Pct.
Colgate	13-3	0.812	22-8	0.733
Army	11-5	0.688	14-12	0.538
American	11-5	0.688	20-11	0.645
Bucknell	11-5	0.688	15-11	0.577
Navy	9-7	0.562	18-9	0.667
Loyola Maryland	6-10	0.375	11-16	0.407
Lehigh	5-11	0.312	13-14	0.481
Lafayette	5-11	0.312	9-15	0.375
Holy Cross	1-15	0.062	4-21	0.160

Story Lines:
Colgate is going for their 4th straight Conference Championship.
Army and Navy graduated a bunch of starters, making way for new names to have the spotlight in the star match.
American graduated player of the year Zeynep Uzen, but bring in 7 freshman and return setter of the year and first team all-conference Esma Sipahi.

Bucknell returns with libero of the year Jordan Hardy, and the last two reigning rookie of the years with Sydney Shaffer and Bri Frazilus, as they continue to improve year over year.

Lehigh and Lafayette knocking at the door for post season birth, can this be the year they return to the playoffs?

    Returning All-Conference Players
From First Team:
    Esma Sipahi, American, Sr., S *SOTY*
    Jordan Hardy, Bucknell, Sr., L *LOTY*
    Abby Shadwick, Colgate, Sr., OH
    Gillian Hauschild, Colgate, Gr., RS

    Megan Schulte, Lehigh, Sr., OH

From Second Team:
    Sidney Shaffer, Bucknell, So., MB *ROTY*
    Sydney Jones, Colgate, Sr., S

    Lauren Link, Loyola Maryland, Gr., OH

Preseason poll and awards.

[trojansc]

Let's go Jordan Hardy!

[socalvbhomer]

I think the ‘Gate should be able to give some unsuspecting teams in OOC a run for their money

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Patriot League Weekly Awards

Gracie Reisman wins first player of the week award of the year. She lead the league with a 0.451 hitting percentage over the weekend and tallied 43 kills. The last time a Holy Cross player won this award was the 20-21 COVID shortened year, and 2016 before that.

Zedo Yilmaz wins rookie of the week after a 4-0 weekend with American University. The 6-rotation Freshman from Turkey had double digit kills in all four matches and was two digs away from having a double-double in each of those matches.

Current Records

American 4-0
Lafayette 3-1
Army West Point 2-1
Bucknell 2-1
Lehigh 2-1
Holy Cross 1-2
Loyola Maryland 1-2
Colgate 0-3
Navy 0-3