WCC 2024

[sixrotationkilla]

The poll is locked

[bayarea]

The Official Preseason Poll is out:

1 - Pepperdine (8)
2 - San Diego (2)
3 - LMU (1)
4 - Oregon State
(tie) - Pacific
6 - Washington State
7 - Saint Mary's
8 - Santa Clara
9 - San Francisco
10 - Portland
11 - Gonzaga

2024 All-WCC Volleyball Preseason Team
Name Institution Yr. Pos.
Genevieve Bane Saint Mary's Jr. OH
Nemo Beach San Diego So. OH
Grace Chillingworth Pepperdine Sr. OH/OPP
Alexa Edwards Pacific Gr. OH
Sam Hastings LMU Sr. LB
Jenna Heller Pacific Sr. S
Birdie Hendrickson Pepperdine Gr. OH/OPP
Annika Hester Oregon State Sr. OPP
Sophia Meyers LMU Sr. OH
Elena Radeff Santa Clara Jr. OH/OPP
Maui Robins Portland Jr. OH
Lauren Rumel Oregon State Jr. MB
Katy Ryan Washington State Sr. RS
Mia Schafer LMU Sr. S
Riley Simpson Pepperdine Gr. OH/OPP
Haylee Stoner San Diego Sr. MB

[JJVb]

San Diego seems a bit high for me on the poll this year, but time will show. I'd swap them and OSU.

[bayarea]

Washington State with a new coach and new team projected to be middle of the pack... hard to guess what they will look like.

(Three people in the thread poll picked Gonzaga to finish first?!)

[socalvbhomer]

Pretty cool that a team like OSU now gets a shot at winning a conference championship! GoBeav’s!

[vballfreak808]

Portland with a sweep over Stetson to start the season! (29-27, 25-22, 25-14). Overall good stats for the team

Kaauwai with 11 kills (.625) & 7 blocks
Robins with 12 kills (.259), 8 digs, 5 blocks
Larsson with 13 kills (.259), 2 aces
RS Frosh setter Havannah Hoeft with 38 assists, 12 digs, 4 blocks, and team hit .330 for the match
Freshman libero Woodward-Hart with 16 digs, 4 assists

[JJVb]

WCC teams go 6-5 on day 1 of the season. The three 5 set losses by WSU, St. Mary's, and Pacific could have gone either way though.

[bayarea]

Day 1 scores:

Portland over Stetson 3-0
Portland over Bethune Cookman 3-2
Gonzaga over Southern Utah 3-0
Santa Clara over Villanova 3-1
OSU over Fresno State 3-1
San Francisco over Portland State 3-0

Wyoming over WSU 3-2
Arkansas over St. Mary's 3-2
Iowa State over Pacific 3-2
Western Michigan over LMU 3-1
USC over Pepperdine 3-0


I saw part of the Pepperdine game and they looked very competitive against a sharp looking USC. I'm a bit surprised about LMU's loss. Anyone see that match?

[bayarea]

SATURDAY:

Portland (3-0) playied at 8 AM today vs Manhattan - Portland won 3-1
Saint Mary's (0-2) vs Cal Poly at 10 AM - Cal Poly won 3-0
WSU (0-2) vs Houston at 10 AM - WSU lost 3-1
USF vs Cal at 11:30 AM - tied 2-2...
LMU at Clemson at noon - LMU is up 2-1
Pacific vs Northwestern at 1:00 pm.
Gonzaga vs N. Arizona at 1:00 pm
USF vs Nevada at 2:30 pm
USC vs Pepperdine rematch at 6pm
Oregon State vs Grand Canyon at 7pm
Notre Dame vs Santa Clara at 7 pm
San Diego vs SMU at 10 pm Pacific (in Hawaii)

[vballfreak808]

Aug 31, 2024 12:09:50 GMT -5 bayarea said:

I'm a bit surprised about LMU's loss. Anyone see that match?

Western Michigan is a team that came off dominant MAC run last year and upset Auburn in the NCAA tournament. They return a few key starters while LMU had to rebuild it's roster. Not so surprising but a good challenge by them

[bayarea]

San Francisco vs Cal is in set 5!  (Cal is leading 6-1.... now 6-5... Cal won 15-11 in the fifth.)

[bayarea]

SATURDAY:

Portland (3-0) won 3-1 vs Manhattan 
Saint Mary's (0-2) lost 0-3 to Cal Poly 
WSU (0-2) lost 3-1 to Houston 
USF (1-1) vs Cal - Cal won 3-2
LMU (1-1) at Clemson - LMU won 3-1 (Clemson hit .045 for the match, LMU hit .186)
Pacific (1-1) vs Northwestern - Pacific 3-2 in a reverse sweep
Gonzaga (1-1) vs N Arizona  - NAU swept, hitting .265 and Gonzaga hitting .090)
USF (1-2) vs Nevada - Nevada won 3-2
USC vs Pepperdine (0-2) - 3-1 USC
Oregon State (1-1) vs Grand Canyon - GCU won 3-1
Notre Dame at Santa Clara (1-1)  - ND won 3-1
San Diego vs SMU at 10 pm Pacific (in Hawaii)

(USF agreed to a horrible schedule with an 11:30 AM 5-set loss to Cal that just finished, and immediately going into a new match with Nevada, scheduled at 2:30pm.)

[bayarea]

Pacific came back from down 0-2 to Northwestern and is headed to a 5th set. Pacific Opp Gorospe went down in the 4th set with an ankle? injury...looked like she rolled it after coming down from a block onto her teammate.

Northwestern looked all kinds of awful in the fourth set (ie. a free ball dropped in the middle of the court) after giving up a 23-21 lead in the third set and allowing Pacific 4 straight points.

[bayarea]

Pacific was down three points in the 5th set and came back to beat Northwestern 15-13.

[bayarea]

San Francisco went 5 against Nevada and dropped the last set 14-16. I really feel for them, having just played back-to-back 5-set matches...both losses. Those girls will have no legs tomorrow. (Fortunately they don't play again until Thursday.).