3 Amigos, Northern Sun All Conference

#2 posting 11.12.2008
your daily dose of girls volleyball news & information

COLLEGE REPORTS
BIG 10
The Three Amigos (part 2) ride again for the Gophers. From the Minnesota Daily.

D2
NORTHERN SUN
Augustana beat Wayne State, Nebraska in five with a margin of 12 points. WSN led 2-1. Ellen Andrews (Bancroft-Rosalie, Nebraska) had 19.5 points for the Vikings. Mindy Moody (Sioux City Heelan) had 18.5 points for WSN.

MSU Mankato swept MSU Moorhead with a margin of 20 points. It was the Mavericks 5th straight win. Kimber Kuhl (Chaska) had 13.5 points for Mankato. Cathy Turner (New Prague) had 11 points for Moorhead. From the Mankato Free Press.

#8 SW MN State swept UM Crookston with a margin of 19 points. Kasey Loeslie (Tracy-Milroy-Balaton) had 13.5 points for SW. Amber Meyer (Paxton, NE) had 11 points for UMC.

Winona State beat Upper Iowa in four with a margin of 10 points. Jenna Padley (Lodi, WI) had 14 points for WSU. Beth Deutmeyer (Dyersville Beckman, IA) had 18 points for UIU.

The Northern Sun released their all Conference list prior to the end of the season.
Concordia St. Paul's Maggie McNamara (Zumbrota-Mazeppa) was named player of the year.
Concordia St. Paul's Mary Slinger (Bethlehem Academy) was named libero of the year.
SW MN State's Devin Diedrich (Braham) was named freshman of the year.
Concordia St. Paul's Brady Starkey was named coach of the year.
CSP had 6 on the AC list
SW had 3 on the AC list, 1 HM
UMD had 2 AC, 2 HM.
Augustana had 2 AC and 3 HMs.

COACHING
East Ridge High School in Woodbury is looking for a volleyball coach. From the South Washington County Bulletin.

AWARDS
Gustavus' Bridget Burtzel (Rocori) is ESPN's Academic All District V

Next up: Still more to come.

Northern Sun Outlook, Braegelmann's Return, B&Y

#1 posting 8.14.2008
your daily dose of girls volleyball news & information

HIGH SCHOOL PRESEASON
Farmington has a strong core returning with Danielle Dombeck, Kirstee Rotty, and Katie Habeck. From the Farmington Independent.

PRESEASON OUTLOOK
NORTHERN SUN
The Northern Sun conference released their preseason picks and Concordia St. Paul is the favorite to take the title with 12 votes. CSP's Maggie McNamara has been named preseason player of the year. UM Duluth and MSU Mankato each had one vote for first and are picked for second and third respectively. UMD has a video report from the Northland's NewsCenter with Coach Boos and setter Katie Gangelhoff interviewed.
Southwest MN State is picked for 4th.
Bemidji State is picked for 11th.

BIG 10
Illinois held media day on Wednesday.

Indiana will hold Hoosier Hitter Clinics this fall.

New Wisconsin assistant coach Brian Heffernan blogs about the Badger coaching staff.

The Ohio State vs Northwestern match has been added to the Big 10 cable network list of games.

MIAC
St. Benedict is preparing for the start of their season.

COACHING NEWS
Chad Braegelmann has returned to UM Morris as volleyball coach. He is a 2000 grad from UMM. From the Morris Sun Tribune.

OLYMPICS
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Former Gopher Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs won their pool with a 2-1 win over Cuba in the Olympics.

Next up: when news breaks.

Northern Sun Tournament Opens

#2 posting 11.7.2007
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NORTHERN SUN TOURNAMENT
There were three sweeps in the opening round of the Northern Sun tournament. There were no upsets as the top seeded teams all advanced. MSU Moorhead's four game win over Winona State was the anomaly. Megan Norling of MSU Moorhead had 17 kills. From the Fargo Forum.

Concordia St. Paul beat Bemidji State. Emily Palkert (SW Christian Chaska) had 17 kills for CSP.

SW MN State topped Mary. Erin Contons (Apple Valley) had 16 kills for SW MN State. Leah Ashburn (Buffalo Lake-Hector) had 14 kills and a .667 hitting percentage. The Marshall Independent says the Mustangs played strong.

Wayne State stopped Northern State. Emily Schroeder had 16 kills for WSC.

Concordia St. Paul will host the Northern Sun tournament this weekend.

BREAKDOWN
games, % sweeps, % 5s; %first game winners, % upsets
4, .750; .000; 1.000; .000

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