The Washington University women’s volleyball team reached the NCAA Final Four on Thursday afternoon with a win over Colorado College (25-16, 23-25, 25-21, 25-14) at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.
In a weekend full of individual successes and milestones, there was one true winner in the Washington University women’s volleyball team: the team itself.
And that’s just how the team wanted it.
In a weekend full of individual successes and milestones, there was one true winner in the Washington University women’s volleyball team: the team itself.
From 1998 to 2001, Washington University took control of Division III women’s basketball, stringing together four consecutive national championships in the process.
The Washington University women’s volleyball team lost a match this past weekend for the first time in nearly a month and a half as it dropped the final match of the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship in a sweep to Emory University (25-18, 25-19, 25-21) in Chicago.
As the legacy of a pair of seniors on the Washington University women’s volleyball team draws near its close, this year’s team may be close to setting in place a legacy of its own.
Sports reporters Kurt Rohrbeck and Daniel Kurzner talk about who will win the 2009 World Series in a discussion moderated by Steven Simon.
The Phillies have arguably the best lineup, top to bottom, in Major League Baseball. But just as important as how good they are is how clutch they are: they can never be ruled out of any game. They took the lead in the ninth inning in three out of their seven wins this postseason and have clutch hitters up and down the lineup.
Sophomore middle hitter Lauren Budde of the No. 3 Washington University women’s volleyball team has been saving her best performances of the year for the team’s biggest games. Last weekend, against No. 4 Emory University, she racked up 16 kills and zero errors on the attack, playing a key role in the Bears’ 3-0 victory. Her performances last weekend and throughout the entire season have earned her Student Life’s Female Athlete of the Week.
The biggest regular-season hurdle for the Washington University women’s volleyball team has been jumped.
The team took all four of its matches this past weekend at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Round Robin No. 2 in New York City, putting them at a perfect 7-0 mark in conference play for the season and guaranteeing them the No. 1 seed for the UAA championship tournament in November
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