Handshakes, high-5s prepare IU on game days
Freshman setter Whitney Granado and several other players on the IU volleyball team participate in several ritual activities before their matches, both collectively and individually.
Freshman setter Whitney Granado and several other players on the IU volleyball team participate in several ritual activities before their matches, both collectively and individually.
The IU volleyball team’s road trip ended with two more disappointing losses. The Hoosiers (14-10, 3-7) fell to No. 1 Penn State (22-0, 10-0) in straight sets Friday and suffered its third straight defeat at the hands of Ohio State (17-6, 5-5) on Saturday.
The IU volleyball team is one of three teams tied for sixth in the Big Ten going into this weekend’s slated matches. The Hoosiers (15-8, 3-5) could have tiebreakers over each of the other two after their road trip.
Sporting pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the IU volleyball team presented its largest audience of the season a dominant win Friday on Branch McCracken Court.The Hoosiers (14-8, 3-5) kicked off the annual Hoosier Hysteria festivities in Assembly Hall with a straight-set victory against Iowa (10-10, 2-6).
Thousands of Hoosier fans fill the seats of Assembly Hall one night in October each year, ecstatic to see basketball – even if it’s only a practice.
The IU volleyball team suffered two losses on its road trip through Illinois this weekend.
The Hoosiers (13-5, 2-2) hope to crack the top-25 as they travel for a pair of road matches against No. 12 Illinois (10-3, 2-2) at 8 p.m. Saturday and Northwestern (9-7, 0-4) at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Following its five-set victory at Purdue, the IU volleyball team got another taste of how difficult the Big Ten can be Sunday.
Now three games into the Big Ten season, each conference opponent the IU volleyball team has faced has been ranked at some point in 2009.
The Hoosiers (13-4, 2-1) won the third straight five-set match against the Boilermakers (9-5, 1-2) to earn IU’s first victory over Purdue in any sport in the 2009-10 academic year.
IU volleyball coach Sherry Dunbar said her team would have to be ready for a five-set match against Purdue given the rivalry’s recent history. That recent history repeated itself Wednesday, but this time the end result favored IU.
IU volleyball coach Sherry Dunbar said she knows what it will take for her young squad to compete in and win matches in such a challenging conference.
Compared to the 125 years of football or 108 years of basketball, the University’s volleyball program is still in its early childhood. However, IU volleyball has slowly but surely displayed signs of emergence among its fellow university sports teams as it enters its 34th season.
The IU volleyball team hopes the results of those matches are different this year. The Hoosiers (12-4, 1-1) play in West Lafayette for the first of two regular-season battles with Purdue (9-4, 1-1) at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The Hoosiers (12-4, 1-1) split their first two Big Ten matches at home, falling to No. 8 Michigan on Friday and then upsetting No. 16 Michigan State on Saturday.
IU volleyball coach Sherry Dunbar said that as underdogs, IU will have to overcome the pressure to win each match and apply that pressure on their favored conference opponents.
This volleyball season, thanks to Chaudoin, fans can see deeper into the happenings of the Hoosiers.
The Hoosiers (11-3) claimed two victories in three matches in their home tournament, falling to Western Michigan in four sets Friday and beating Alabama A&M and North Carolina A&T in straight sets Saturday.
The Hoosiers (9-2) enter this weekend’s T.I.S. College Bookstore IU Invitational on a six-match win streak, having swept two of three tournaments in which they have participated.
For junior middle blocker Ashley Benson and graduate student right-side hitter Whitney Thomas, the choice of what college they would attend was never really a question.