The volleyball team is moving on to the Elite Eight for the first time in 21 years, after beating the Illinois Fighting Illini, 3-1, in the Sweet 16 on Friday night.
Volleyball will advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament after they beat No. 15 Creighton, 3-1, in the second round Saturday night.
Volleyball is off to a good start in the NCAA tournament, as they swept the Missouri Valley Conference champion Missouri State Bears in the first round Friday night, 3-0.
Four Spartan volleyball team members were named to the two Big Ten’s post-season teams on Wednesday evening.
On Friday, the volleyball team will travel to Omaha, Nebraska to take on Missouri State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. This is the team's 20th overall appearance in the tournament and seventh straight at-large bid.
For volleyball head coach Cathy George, the 2017 season has been an emotional one to say the least.
Even through an emotional night for the women’s volleyball team, the No. 8 Spartans were still able to dominate the Hoosiers through three sets and take the win on their final home game at Jenison Fieldhouse of the season.
Cathy George earned his career win No. 600 as a volleyball coach earlier this year, but now, she’s the winningest coach in MSU volleyball history after the Spartans beat Northwestern Saturday night, 3-0, giving her win No. 251 as the head coach of MSU volleyball.
Three regular season home games remain at Jenison Field House this season. For the seniors of the No. 8 volleyball team, the time is winding down as their career as a Spartan slowly comes to an end.
For the second time this year, the volleyball team lost to No. 1 Penn State in four sets. The Spartans overall record against the historically dominant Penn State is 7-44.
The No. 10 MSU volleyball team went 1-1 over the weekend, losing to No. 7 Nebraska on Friday and beating Iowa on Saturday.
In a fighting battle, U-M took the second set while holding the lead the majority of the time. After the third set, the Spartans kept U-M from rallying back to win the match.
After a weekend filled with mostly Spartan victories, here is the roundup for the week.
“It’s just Big Ten volleyball,” head coach Cathy George said. “If you’re going to do anything in this league, you’re going to have to beat a lot of top ten teams. I felt good that we were able to beat Wisconsin two times this year already and even though it’s weird to have it so close, back-to-back.”
The Spartans get their third straight sweep this weekend after beating Maryland on Friday and Ohio State on Saturday. These victories make the team 4-0 in Big Ten Conference play. This is the team’s tenth sweep in overall play making their record 11-2.
As MSU women’s volleyball gets ready to kick off their first Big Ten match this season on Friday, a pair of sisters get ready to watch their schools face off for the first time. Redshirt junior outside hitter Maddie Haggerty and her sister sophomore outside hitter Molly Haggerty who plays Wisconsin will watch their schools compete against each for the first time in their collegiate careers.
For the typical college freshman just entering, already having a friend in the same boat as you can go a long way towards facilitating the transition to the classroom. For freshmen MSU volleyball players Jamye Cox and Meredith Norris, it facilitates their transition to the court.
The MSU Volleyball team cancelled their matchup today against the Florida Gators in Gainesville due to the threat of Hurricane Irma.
The MSU Women’s Volleyball team swept through the entire Auto Owners Insurance Spartan Invitational this weekend, defeating San Diego State, Marshall, and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Spartans won every set in each game due to the exceptional play of three seniors.
Volleyball head coach Cathy George earned her 600th career win as a coach after defeating San Diego State earlier today. Her overall record is now at 600-390 ranking her as the 20th for total wins in the NCAA Division I volleyball and currently is ranked in the top 80 coaches all-time with her career winning percentage at .607.