2008-09 Headlines
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Juniata College head women’s volleyball coach Larry Bock was presented an All-Time Great Coach Award by USA Volleyball, during its 64th Annual Dorothy C. Boyce Annual Awards and Recognitions Banquet, Thursday night in Minneapolis, Minn.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Juniata College women’s volleyball senior Jessica Ritchey (Greencastle, Pa./Greencastle-Antrim) has been named to the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s (NSCA) 2009 All-American Strength and Conditioning Athlete team.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Juniata College senior Amber Thomas (Ephrata, Pa./Conestoga Valley), an outside hitter on the women’s volleyball team, has been named a finalist for the Collegiate Women Sports Awards’ 2008-09 Division III Woman Athlete of the Year, sponsored by Honda.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Juniata College senior outside hitter Amber Thomas (Ephrata, Pa./Conestoga Valley) has been named the ESPN The Magazine College Division Women’s Volleyball Academic All-America of the Year and a First team Academic All-America, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Juniata College’s hopes of collecting its third national championship in women’s volleyball ended Friday evening with a 3-2 loss to the University of La Verne (Calif.), in the national semifinals of the NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championships in Bloomington, Ill.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – The Juniata College women’s volleyball team advanced to the national semifinals of the NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship with a 3-0 victory over third-seeded University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Thursday afternoon at the Shirk Center in Bloomington, Ill.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Senior outside hitter Amber Thomas (Ephrata, Pa./Conestoga Valley) was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division III Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. The award was announced Wednesday evening at the 2008 NCAA Division III Championship awards banquet in Bloomington, Ill., which was held in conjunction with the NCAA Division III Championship, to be held November 20-22 on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Four members of the Juniata College women’s volleyball team were named to American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-America teams for 2008, when the squads were released Tuesday afternoon.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Four Juniata College women’s volleyball players to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Mid-Atlantic Region teams, which were announced on November 13.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Juniata College middle hitter Erin Albert tallied 13 kills on a .545 hitting percentage and helped her Eagles to a 3-0 win over Eastern University, in Saturday’s Regional Championship of the Division III Women’s Volleyball Juniata Regional. Set scores were 25-6, 25-16, and 25-23.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Juniata College senior Amber Thomas (Ephrata, Pa./Conestoga Valley) was named Player of the Year while Megan Sollenberger (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) earned Specialist of the Year honors, when the Landmark Conference post-season honors and all-conference teams were announced on Monday.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – Juniata College will begin its pursuit of a third NCAA women’s volleyball national championship this Thursday when its hosts an eight-team NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Regional at the Kennedy Sports + Recreation Center.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – The top-seeded Juniata College women’s volleyball team delivered its 28th consecutive conference championship on Saturday, knocking off third-seeded Susquehanna University, 3-0, in the 2008 Landmark Conference Championship match at the Kennedy Sports + Recreation Center in Huntingdon, Pa.
ATLANTA – The Juniata College women’s volleyball team wrapped up its 2008 regular season with a pair of wins at the Emory National Challenge in Atlanta, defeating NAIA-member Lee University (Tenn.) 3-0, then dispatching Birmingham-Southern College, 3-2.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – The NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Committee has announced that Juniata College has been selected as one of eight sites for the regional round of the 2008 Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship.
ATLANTA – The top-ranked Juniata College women’s volleyball team dropped its first game to a ranked Division III opponent this season with a 3-0 loss to no. 2 Emory University, Friday night in Atlanta, Ga., at the Emory National Challenge.