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Post by jcvball22 on Dec 3, 2023 3:29:50 GMT -5
Congrats to an excellent Juniata team. Scary thing .. both teams return an awful lot. Foley will obviously be a big whole to fill. But .. a lot still. Word is, Foley may come back for her grad year. Juniata may return the entire line up.
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Post by coahc21 on Dec 3, 2023 15:26:52 GMT -5
Congrats to an excellent Juniata team. Scary thing .. both teams return an awful lot. Foley will obviously be a big whole to fill. But .. a lot still. Foley may come back
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Post by jcdad on Dec 3, 2023 20:45:32 GMT -5
From juniata sports.net Every year of this roster is filled with absurd statistics. After not playing as first-years due to COVID-19, the senior class and the junior class are 101-3 in their careers. They have dropped just 37 sets across three seasons and have not lost inside Memorial Gymnasium. The sophomore class has ended every year of their careers with a national championship, while the first years have yet to experience losing a match.
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Post by fightingminime on Dec 3, 2023 21:36:00 GMT -5
Congrats to an excellent Juniata team. Scary thing .. both teams return an awful lot. Foley will obviously be a big whole to fill. But .. a lot still. Word is, Foley may come back for her grad year. Juniata may return the entire line up. Wowsa. I thought someone else was a senior too, but I glanced so do not claim to be an expert. Hope also returns everyone but I think the bro.
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Post by ned3vball on Dec 4, 2023 6:04:23 GMT -5
Word is, Foley may come back for her grad year. Juniata may return the entire line up. Wowsa. I thought someone else was a senior too, but I glanced so do not claim to be an expert. Hope also returns everyone but I think the bro. The class of '24 has the option of a covid year. So any school that has an academic path and wants to, can bring back all their seniors.
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Post by bigfan on Dec 4, 2023 10:08:22 GMT -5
Wowsa. I thought someone else was a senior too, but I glanced so do not claim to be an expert. Hope also returns everyone but I think the bro. The class of '24 has the option of a covid year. So any school that has an academic path and wants to, can bring back all their seniors. Could you please explain this? I thought we were done with covid extensions?
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Post by coahc21 on Dec 4, 2023 10:18:39 GMT -5
The class of '24 has the option of a covid year. So any school that has an academic path and wants to, can bring back all their seniors. Could you please explain this? I thought we were done with covid extensions? This year's seniors were freshmen during the '19-'20 season. No one lost a year of eligibility that year.
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Post by finnmacool on Dec 4, 2023 11:56:52 GMT -5
Congrats to an excellent Juniata team. Scary thing .. both teams return an awful lot. Foley will obviously be a big whole to fill. But .. a lot still. As do CMS - not so sure about NYU, W-Oshkosh etc.
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Post by coahc21 on Dec 4, 2023 12:55:53 GMT -5
Congrats to an excellent Juniata team. Scary thing .. both teams return an awful lot. Foley will obviously be a big whole to fill. But .. a lot still. As do CMS - not so sure about NYU, W-Oshkosh etc. I THINK most of NYU's seniors were already on their 5th year...they had a couple D1 grad transfers that will now be done. Holz I believe used her extra COVID year this season.
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Post by d3follower on Dec 4, 2023 18:16:16 GMT -5
Word is, Foley may come back for her grad year. Juniata may return the entire line up. Wowsa. I thought someone else was a senior too, but I glanced so do not claim to be an expert. Hope also returns everyone but I think the bro. Hope has its injured OH returning for up to two more seasons. Easy to see Juniata and Hope running it back in 2024, but the rest of us will do our best to play spoiler.
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Post by fightingminime on Dec 4, 2023 21:24:12 GMT -5
Wowsa. I thought someone else was a senior too, but I glanced so do not claim to be an expert. Hope also returns everyone but I think the bro. The class of '24 has the option of a covid year. So any school that has an academic path and wants to, can bring back all their seniors. I understand how the covid year works. TBH, I thought kids in D2 and D3 would be less likely to use the year ... paying for school makes for a different perspective on an extra year (unless of course you need it academically speaking). Clearly I shouldn't have made assumptions because you know what happens when you assume ..
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Post by ned3vball on Dec 5, 2023 5:57:08 GMT -5
The class of '24 has the option of a covid year. So any school that has an academic path and wants to, can bring back all their seniors. I understand how the covid year works. TBH, I thought kids in D2 and D3 would be less likely to use the year ... paying for school makes for a different perspective on an extra year (unless of course you need it academically speaking). Clearly I shouldn't have made assumptions because you know what happens when you assume .. I agree with less likely. But there will be a reasonable percentage (20-30%??). At the school(a college with no post grad programs) I follow closest, 3 players, across different classes, took a spring semester off so they could play a 4th season. This is where the universities have a big advantage, if you were going post grad anyway, now you have options to get the 4th season. Juniata is a special case. It is one thing to decide to comeback for a 4th season, and another to decide to comeback so you can three peat as NCAA champs.
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Post by coahc21 on Dec 5, 2023 8:23:20 GMT -5
I understand how the covid year works. TBH, I thought kids in D2 and D3 would be less likely to use the year ... paying for school makes for a different perspective on an extra year (unless of course you need it academically speaking). Clearly I shouldn't have made assumptions because you know what happens when you assume .. I agree with less likely. But there will be a reasonable percentage (20-30%??). At the school(a college with no post grad programs) I follow closest, 3 players, across different classes, took a spring semester off so they could play a 4th season. This is where the universities have a big advantage, if you were going post grad anyway, now you have options to get the 4th season. Juniata is a special case. It is one thing to decide to comeback for a 4th season, and another to decide to comeback so you can three peat as NCAA champs. Juniata is such a unique powerhouse too...other traditional "blue bloods" are elite across many if not most sports on campus. At Juniata, volleyball athletes are the campus celebs with their other sports teams struggling to make conference tournaments, much less be a national contender. Not only does this year's class have a chance to 3-peat, but also another year to bask in celebrity status on campus.
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Post by jcvball22 on Dec 5, 2023 11:43:43 GMT -5
Juniata is unique in a lot of ways, biggest one being student population.
Undergrad Population- NYU: 26,733 UW Oshkosh: 8,419 Johns Hopkins: 5.727 CMS: 5,614 Hope: 3,251 Northwestern-St Paul: 3,161 Trinity (TX): 2,506
Juniata:1,177
It's a tiny school in the middle of nowhere, but an amazing place to go to spend 4 (or 5) years. Although, ask anyone that played there: "Basking in celebrity status on campus" is fairly laughable. But mostly accurate on the rest. Juniata has grad programs, so students have options to stay for a 5th year for a grad degree, which really makes playing that final season a reality.
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Post by ned3vball on Dec 5, 2023 18:23:52 GMT -5
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