Braun Verbals

#1 posting 3.31.2008
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BRAUN VERBALS

Amy Braun of Lakeville North, a three time Minnesota All State Selection and 2007 PrepVolleyball.com High School All American (HHM) has committed to the UNI Panthers and Head Coach Bobbi Petersen. Amy is a 5-10 Junior OH and plays with Mizuno Minnesota One Volleyball Club 18-1's team.

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Braun was also named player of the year in the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 2007.

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Braun is the 4th player from the 2009 Minnesota class to verbal a D1 school.

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#1 in Women & Men

#1 posting 3.30.2008
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DID YOU KNOW?
Penn State won the women's NCAA D1 volleyball title, and now the men (yes they have a volleyball program there) are #1 in the country with a 24-1 record after beating Ball State in a sweep. Looking at their schedule the only other Big 10 team is Ohio.

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Scrimmage Rescheduled, Illinois 1-2 Punch

#1 posting 3.29.2008
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SCRIMMAGE RESCHEDULE
Iowa State will reschedule their alumni scrimmage to Tuesday, April 1st.

ONE TWO PUNCH
Kylie McCulley and Laura DeBruler are providing Illinois with a one-two punch this spring. Both are pushing each other.

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Dunbar Comments, Templeton Verbals

#1 posting 3.28.2008
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HOOSIER HUDDLE
You can check out Indiana coach Sherry Dunbar and her comments on the all-access site from Indiana. It is free. Also free is the admission to the 8 team event this weekend. Action starts at 9 am with the championship starting at about 4:30 pm.

VERBAL/SIGNING
Caitlin Templeton of Rapid City Stevens has verballed Creighton. Templeton is a junior, and I don't think signing is available until the senior season. From the Rapid City Journal.

Thanks to the readers for the tips and news. If you have news, go to my profile and email me.

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Fond du Lac CC, Yet More Dingman

#1 posting 3.27.2008
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COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College will be adding volleyball next year and join the Minnesota Community College Conference. Gleaned from an article about softball in the Duluth News Tribune.

MORE DINGMAN
Here is more on the Dingman hire at Iowa.

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Coaching Changes 2008

COACHING CHANGES 2008

School, New coach

COLLEGE
D1
Albany, MJ Engstrom
Arizona State, Jason Watson
Auburn, Wade Benson
Bradley, Sean Burdette
Brigham Young, Shay Goulding
Columbia, Jonathon Wilson
Drake, Phil McDaniel
Eastern Washington, Myles Kidd
Georgia Southern, Chad Callihan
Illinois State
Indiana State, Traci Dahl
Iowa, Sharon Dingman
Montana State, Sara Schaub
North Dakota, Kari Peterson
Ohio, Ryan Theis
Ohio State, Geoff Carlston
Portland, Joe Houck
South Dakota, Kevin Marquis interim
South Dakota State
Virginia, Lee Maes
Washington State Andrew Palileo
Wyoming, Carrie Yerty
D2
Montana State Billings
Upper Iowa, Shari Robertson interim
D3
Buena Vista, Heather Noll
Presentation, Chelsey Deibert
Urbana, Wendy Cromer
NAIA
Dakota Wesleyan, Eric Viney
Dickinson State
Mayville State, Lindsey Kruse


HIGH SCHOOL
MINNESOTA--21
Apple Valley, Dan Kuklock
Bigfork, Doreen Matteson
Central Christian, Jill Blom
DGF, Tessa Tysver
Eagan, Lesley Bonin
Edina, Emily Buehler
Kingsland
Lakeview, Phil Lalim
Mankato West, Mary Nelson
Minneapolis Roosevelt, Wendy Vang
Minneota, Stephanie Hennen
Morris, Rebecca Hayden
New London-Spicer, Margaret Essler & Mimi Knutson
Robbinsdale Cooper, Brooke Schaffer
Sauk Rapids, Pam Rockensock
Southwest Star
St. Louis Park, Annie Adamczak-Glavan
Thief River Falls
Totino-Grace, Leah Welch
Tracy-Milroy-Balaton, Katie Gervais
Waseca, Leslie Bremer
Yellow Medicine East, Tasha Feldman

SOUTH DAKOTA
Belle Fourche
Rapid City Central

Dingman Introduced, Spring Schedules,

#1 posting 3.26.2008
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COACHING NEWS
Iowa introduced new women's basketball coach Sharon Dingman yesterday.

MJ Engstrom has been named interim coach at UAlbany. Tawny Dahmes of Chaska is on the UAlbany roster.

SPRING SCHEDULES
Indiana starts their spring schedule on Saturday with an 8 team event. The teams involved and pools are Pool A Butler, Chicago State, Indianapolis and Indiana State and Pool B Indiana, IUPUI, Louisville and Southern Illinois.

Wisconsin opens their spring schedule at Marquette, plus the rest of their schedule.

AWARDS
Adrian High School junior Katy Slater has been awarded the EXCEL award (Excellence in Community, Education and Leadership). Slater is a volleyball player at Adrian. From the Worthington Daily Globe.

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Penn State Verbal, Iowa's New Coach

#1 posting 3.25.2008
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PENN STATE VERBAL
Darcy Dorton of Delta, IN has made a verbal to National Champ Penn State. She is a 6-2 outside hitter. From the Muncie Star Press.

COACHING NEWS
The Daily Iowan's headline states new coach Sharon Dingman is a proven winner.

GOPHER DIARY
Here is the Katie Vatterrodt diary entry for the Puerto Rico trip (four days later).

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End of National American University

#1 posting 3.24.2008
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END OF A PROGRAM
National American University in Rapid City has decided to end their NAIA volleyball program. NAU had been to eight straight NAIA tournaments. Where will the players land? From the Rapid City Journal.

BADGERS IN SAN DIEGO #2
The Wisconsin Badgers are in San Diego and there is a second blog posting by Audra Jeffers and Kim Kuzma.

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Big South Qualifier, Late Gopher Diary Entries

#1 posting 3.23.2008
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BIG SOUTH JO QUALIFIER
The Big South JO Qualifier going on this Easter weekend down in Atlanta. Last weekend there was a tornado that caused havoc in the area and the tournament is feeling the effects. Players and fans are adusting. From teh Atlanta Journal Constitution.

GOPHER DIARIES
These might be a bit old, but Kelly Schmidt, Brook Dieter, and Hailey Cowles all have diary entries.

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Iowa Hires

#1 posting 3.22.2008
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IOWA HIRES
The Iowa Hawkeyes have hired Sharon Dingman. She previously was head coach at Butler and Illinois State. Illinois State made the NCAA tournament last year. From the Des Moines Register.

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Gophers Split

#1 posting 3.21.2008
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GOPHERS SPLIT IN PUERTO RICO
The Minnesota Gophers split with Caguas Criollas in Puerto Rico 2-2 yesterday. Minnesota is 2-0-1 on their trip.

ACADEMICS
Gustavus had two volleyball players that made the MIAC Academic list in the fall.

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Gophers win in Puerto Rico, Badgers Enjoy San Diego

#1 posting 3.20.2008
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SPRING TRIPS
PUERTO RICO
The Gophers beat Guay Navo Volleyball Club 3-2.

SAN DIEGO
Wisconsin's Audra Jeffers and Kim Kuzma blog on their San Diego trip.

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Gophers Win in Puerto Rico

#1 posting 3.19.2008
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GOPHERS IN PUERTO RICO
Minnesota opened their PR trip with a sweep over Puerto Rico-Cayey.

It is Kyla Roehrig's turn at the diary blog.

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MacLean Signs, M1s Qualify, Theis Hired

#1 posting 3.18.2008
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SIGNING
Outside hitter Grace MacLean of Edina has signed with Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Rollins is a D2 school. MacLean is the 40th player from the 2008 Minnesota class to verbal and the 21st to head to a D2 school. MacLean plays with M1 18 Navy.

JO RESULTS
The M1 18-1's team took second this past weekend at the Hoosier Mideast qualifier which qualified them to Nationals.

COACHING NEWS
Ryan Theis has been named head volleyball coach at Ohio. Theis is originally from Madison.

SPRING SCHEDULE
Purdue will start their spring schedule at Michigan on March 28 with the Michigan Spring Tournament. Other teams involved include Eastern Michigan, Notre Dame, Northern Michigan and the host Wolverines.

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JO Qualifiers in Colorado and Indiana

#1 posting 3.17.2008
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PARALYMPIC ASSISTANT
Cara Bartolic (St. Cloud Cathedral, St. Cloud State) is the second assistant coach with the U.S. Women's Sitting Volleyball Team. They are getting ready for the Paralympic Games in Beijing this summer. From the St. Cloud Times.

COACHING NEWS
Ohio will name a new coach this morning. Amanda Andersen of Centennial will be a senior next season there.

OFF TO ITALY
Northern Lights 18s are off to Italy. They will play in the Ferruccio Cornacchia Memorial Volleyball Tournament in Pordenone, Italy.

COLORADO CROSSROADS
Northern Lights 16-2s finished 3rd. 8 different NL teams played in the Colorado Crossroads event.

HOOSIER MIDEAST QUALIFIER
MN Select 18-1 finished 3rd in the Hoosier tournament and has qualified for the national tournament.
M1 teams were also were in Indianapolis.

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2 Signings, Puerto Rico Blog

#1 posting 3.16.2008
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SIGNINGS
Sartell seniors Mallory Johannes and Ashley Smoley have signed letters of intent to play volleyball at Jamestown College. From the St. Cloud Times.
This makes 39 known Minnesota 2008 players that will go on and play college volleyball, and the 5th and 6th to go to an NAIA school.

DEAR DIARY
Gopher setter Rachel Hartmann has a blog entry on the first two days of their Puerto Rico trip.

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Badgers San Diego Bound

#1 posting 3.15.2008
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SPRING BREAK
Wisconsin will be going to San Diego for spring break.

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Mattai Verbals, Gophers to Puerto Rico

#1 posting 3.14.2008
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VERBAL
Kelsey Mattai, a 6-3 middle from White Bear Lake and also the Northern Lights 17-1s, last week verbally committed to Marquette University.
She is the third Minnesota player from the 2009 class to verbal.

PUERTO RICO BOUND
The Gophers are off to Puerto Rico for a week of action.

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Yager Verbals, Sparby Resigns

#1 posting 3.13.2008
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VERBAL
Catherine Yager, a 6 ft. setter from St. Michael, made her verbal commitment to the University of Michigan. She is a junior and will join the Wolverines in 2009.

DE COMMITTING
Tia Gaffen, a 6-2 middle from Wayzata, has de-committed to Georgia Tech.

The net result is there are two verbals from the 2009 class, both from St. Michael-Albertville.

COACHING
Tammy Sparby has resigned as volleyball coach at Thief River Falls.

TOURNAMENT
Southern Minnesota Volleyball 16-3 team won the Gold Division at Farmington on March 1. The Next day they were 2nd at Stewartville.

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Lopez Resigns at DGF, Hoosier Mid East Qualifier

#1 posting 3.12.2008
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LOPEZ RESIGNS
Jean Lopez has resigned as volleyball coach at DGF. She coached 24 years and had over 300 wins. Tessa Tysver will replace her. From the Fargo Forum.

JO EVENT
Hoosier Mid East National Qualifier will be held this weekend in Indianapolis. MN Select will send a few teams east.

MINNESOTA VOLLEYBALL NEWS
The latest issue is out.

CLINIC
Illinois and UW Milwaukee worked a clinic in inner city Chicago last weekend.

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Colorado Crossroads and UMM JO Results

#1 posting 3.11.2008
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JO TOURNAMENTS
In the Colorado Crossroads National Qualifier last weekend the Northern Lights 162s finished in 3rd place.

The Fergus Falls 16-1 JO volleyball team won an eight team tournament this past weekend at Minnesota-Morris. From the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.

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Busse & the Olympics

#1 posting 3.10.2008
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OLYMPICS
Former Gopher Cassie Busse of Prior Lake Christian has a chance to make the American Olympic squad. Here is her story on her opportunity from the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

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Three Signings

#1 posting 3.9.2008
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THREE SIGNINGS
Annika Smed of Albert Lea has signed with North Dakota. From the Albert Lea Tribune.

Also joining Smed at North Dakota will be Taylor Bohannon a Libero from Eagan. Bohannon plays her JO ball with Northern Lights 18-1s.

The third signing is Jennifer Henke a Libero from Rosemount. She plays JO with M1 18-1s. Henke is headed to South Dakota.

These three signings push the Minnesota 2008 class commitments to 37 overall, and 13 to D1 teams. Both North Dakota and South Dakota will be playing at the D1 level next season. Here is a list of all signees. If you have a player that isn't on the list, go to my profile and email me.

JEWELL
Purdue assistant Kathy Jewell gets a feature on the Boilermaker website.

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Meningitis Death

#1 posting 3.8.2008
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MENINGITIS DEATH
Loras volleyball player Audrey Fitzgerald died of Neisseria meningitis last week. From the Des Moines Register.

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Scrimmage Postponed

#1 posting 3.7.2008
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SCRIMMAGE POSTPONED
The Iowa State alumni scrimmage that was scheduled for March 11 has postponed and will be rescheduled later.

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Law Suit

#1 posting 3.6.2008
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COURT TIME
The parents of a girls sexually abuse by Troy Bernard, former Montgomery-Lonsdale coach, are suing the school. The parents claim the school district is partially responsible for the behavior. The suit is now in federal court. From the Mankato Free Press.

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Iowa Interim Hire

#2 posting 3.5.2008
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IOWA HIRES
Katie McGuine has been hired as interim volleyball coach at Iowa. McGuine is a Rochester Lourdes grad 1997. She also attended MSU Mankato. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.

Iowa is still looking for a full time coach. From the Iowa City Press Citizen.

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Hagerty to Ball State, Hertaus to Marquette

#1 posting 3.5.3008
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HAGERTY TO BALL STATE
Former Gopher Rachelle Hagerty has received a scholarship at Ball State. From the Ball State Daily Online.

HERTAUS TO MARQUETTE
Sammy Hertaus of New Prague is headed to Marquette. Hertaus, a DS/setter plays for the Northern Lights 182s. She was all Conference in the Missota last fall.
Hertaus is the 34th player overall in the Minnesota 2008 class to commit to a school and the 10th to head to a D1 program.

NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL CENTER
The National Volleyball Center in Rochester is looking for state money for four more courts. From KTTC.

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Granquist Minnesota Bound

#1 posting 3.4.2008
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GRANQUIST LOCKED IN AT MINNESOTA
Blaine's Jessica Granquist has de-commited from Florida State and has commited to Minnesota.

Granquist was the first MaxPreps volleyball player of the week from Minnesota this year.

WEEKEND EVENT
Ralia Sports Center will host another event this weekend.

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South Dakota Volleyball Coaching Openings

#1 posting 3.3.2008
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COACHING NEWS
There are a couple of head volleyball jobs available in South Dakota.
Belle Fourche and Rapid City Central both have openings.

I guess even MySpace has a volleyball job site.

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Two New Coaches

#1 posting 3.2.2008
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COACHING NEWS
Shay Goulding is the new coach at BYU.

Chelsey Deibert is the new coach at Presentation.

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Viney Hired, Rule Changes, NDSU Clinic

#1 posting 3.1.2008
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COACHING NEWS
Eric Viney has been hired at Dakota Wesleyan in Mitchell. Viney was a grad assistant at North Dakota State for a couple of years. Last season he was an assistant at Oklahoma Panhandle.

RULE CHANGES
The NCAA has approved 15 new rule changes. One that will grab attention is moving from 30 points to 25 points a game. Game five stays at 15. Substitutions will drop from 15 to 12.

CLINIC
North Dakota State will be holding a coaching clinic on March 14 and 15.

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