2003 News
After another outstanding season, Wittenberg University volleyball team members added more hardware to their trophy cases as the 2003 NCAA Division III All-America teams were announced by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
Another banner fall sports season has reaped tangible rewards for 34 Wittenberg University athletes who were selected to All-North Coast Athletic Conference teams.
It wasn't the ending to the 2003 season the Tigers had envisioned, but the Wittenberg volleyball team has no reason to hang their heads.
It's hard to imagine two teams more evenly matched. In the end, as the Wittenberg University Tigers and the Ohio Northern University Polar Bears battled down to the wire before an estimated crowd of 800 fans screaming themselves hoarse in the Wittenberg University HPER Center, it was a shame that someone would have to lose - unless you were a fan of the visiting team.
The Wittenberg University Tigers, champions of the North Coast Athletic Conference and the fifth-ranked team in the nation in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, swept their way into the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Championship game Friday with a 3-0 (30-22, 32-30, 30-15) win over the Alma College Scots.
CLEVELAND -- Wittenberg junior Sarah Yuskewich (Columbus, OH/Bishop Watterson) has been named Player of the Year to highlight the 2003 All-North Coast Athletic Conference volleyball selections. Yuskewich, a 6-0 setter, led the conference in assists with 1303 over 100 games (13.03 apg).
The Wittenberg volleyball team opens NCAA Division III Tournament play this week after winning three straight North Coast Athletic Conference matches last week to capture the NCAC Tournament title.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio The Wittenberg volleyball team has participated in the NCAA Division III Tournament in each of the last eight years and nine times overall. However, never have the Tigers won a national title, hence the motto regularly heard around the HPER Center, "Unfinished Business."
The No. 1 seeded Wittenberg Tigers were outstanding again, putting the finishing touches on yet another perfect North Coast Athletic Conference regular season and tournament championship with a 3-0 victory over Hiram at the HPER Center in Springfield.
The No. 1 seed, Wittenberg University, overwhelmed the No. 4 seed Denison University in the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament semifinals on Friday evening at Wittenberg's HPER Center. The Tigers, who have won eight of the last 10 NCAC tournament titles, including the last six consecutively, advanced to the NCAC Tournament championship match on Saturday with the win, where they will face the winner of tonight's other semifinal between Allegheny College and Hiram College.
The Wittenberg volleyball team continues to make headlines.
The No. 1 seed, Wittenberg University, overwhelmed the No. 8 seed Ohio Wesleyan University in the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinals on Tuesday evening at Wittenberg's HPER Center.
The Wittenberg University volleyball team is once again the preeminent team in the North Coast Athletic Conference.
The Wittenberg volleyball team is once again preeminent in the North Coast Athletic Conference after clinching a seventh consecutive conference regular season title with a perfect 8-0 record, but the Tigers have a lot of work to do.
The Wittenberg volleyball team, ranked No. 5 in the nation in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, is at it again.
CLEVELAND -- Wittenberg's Monica McDonald and Sarah Yuskewich head a list of stellar student-athletes named to the North Coast Athletic Conference's 20th Anniversary volleyball team. McDonald and Yuskewich are the only two members of the squad still actively competing. Thus far this season, the pair have led the Tigers to a perfect 8-0 conference record and the number one seed heading into the annual NCAC Tournament.