Outdoor Volleyball Tournaments
The UVSC men's volleyball team is hosting five outdoor doubles volleyball tournaments in 2008. Get a $5 discount for online pre-registration. CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS AND REGISTER TODAY.
2008 Mountain West Volleyball Conference Champions!
The wolverines traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, on March 7 & 8 and won the MWVC Tournament. UVSC defeated University of Nevada - Las Vegas in the quarterfinals, University of Arizona in the semifinals, and Arizona State University in the finals. Three players were named to the All-Tournament Team: #2 Tyler Widdison (MB), #3 Clay Salazar (LIB), and MVP #4 Joseph Moore (OPP).
2007 National Tournament recap
The Utah Valley State Men's Volleyball team travelled to Louisville, Kentucky on April 12-14 for the NIRSA Collegiate Volleyball Sport Club Championships. They entered the tournament with a ranking of #34 in the nation among the 158 mens teams in attendance. Utah Valley finished in 5th place after an extremely close match against Lakeland College (#2).
On the first day of the tournament, the UVSC varsity squad defeated University of California - San Diego (#15) in three games 22-25, 25-19, 15-7. They then lost to Illinois State University (#39) in a tight three game match 22-25, 25-22, 13-15. They were still able to take the top seed in their pool by upsetting University of Wisconsin - Madison (#10) 25-22, 20-25, 15-10. Utah Valley advanced into a championship flight "power pool" on Friday where they defeated UCLA (#7) 25-20, 25-22 and San Jose State University (#23) 28-26, 25-23. The wolverines faced Arizona State University (#12) in the first round of the Division I gold bracket single-elimination tournament and surprised them with a quick two-game match 25-19, 25-21. Utah Valley finished in 5th place after an exciting three-game match against Lakeland College (#2) in the quarter-finals 23-25, 25-23, 13-15.
The Utah Valley men's JV team also performed much better than the #15 seed they were given this year in their own division with other JV teams. They beat Northeastern University (#7) 25-12, 25-22 and San Jose State University (#10) 25-19, 25-18. They were not able to overcome University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh (#2) 16-25, 19-25. The JV team continued to perform well on day two of the tournament by beating University of Wisconsin - Platteville (#9) 25-19, 25-18 and upsetting Marquette University (#6) 25-20, 25-22 and University of California - Davis (#4) 25-13, 26-24. They succumbed to top-ranked JV team, CalPoly SLO (#1), 17-25, 19-25. The UVSC JV quickly knocked out University of Central Florida (#5) in just one game in the first round of the Division III gold bracket because of a forfeit 25-0, 25-12. The JV squad was again not able to get past CalPoly SLO (#1) in the semi-finals 22-25, 20-25 and took home a 3rd place award.
This year's traveling teams included 11 freshmen, 2 sophomores and 4 juniors. Next year should be exciting as almost every player will be returning. Please visit the NIRSA website for more details:
http://www.nirsa.org/sports/volleyball/sport_club/
Open tryouts for the men's 2007-2008 volleyball teams were held in October. Please contact us if you have any questions or may be interested in playing next season.
Read the article about UVSC Men's Volleyball on page 28 of the January 2006 edition of Schooled Magazine.
