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Tigerone94

2017 Volleyball Season

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Thought I'd start a thread on what tends to be one of the better teams year after year at Towson.  Hopefully others will contribute.  Volleyball has a new assistant on board this year who came from Georgia Southern.  Pre-season rankings has the team finishing in 4th with Charleston, Hofstra and JMU finishing ahead of us.  We have the pre-season offensive player of the year.  The team easily went 3-0 winning the tournament at Western Carolina this past weekend.  We play UVA on Labor Day weekend and they swept Hofstra to start the season.  Side note, the games at Western Carolina were shown on ESPN3 so I guess the SoCon has a decent online deal with ESPN.  I know the JMU board is livid about the poor online deal the CAA has with CBS and we all should be.  Sad that we won't see games on Comcast anymore.  

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Volleyball is now 11-0 which is the best start in school history.  JMU is also off to a perfect start at 9-0.  Towson has 3 more non-conference games this weekend before conference play begins.  Team plays Fort Wayne, Kent State and Oakland this weekend, with Oakland on paper appearing to be the toughest opponent of the 3.

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Our program is strong, year in  and year out, though we tend to choke in the CAA tournament. Still, I wish our field hockey team were as competitive -- they get drubbed, week after week. We didn't even take a shot against U-Md.

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No doubt we've struggled in conference tournaments since Chris Riley left for VA Tech years ago. As for field hockey, until the University and donors provide the team with an AstroTurf field, the team will be one of the worst Div 1 programs in the country year after year. It's not fair to the student-athletes that they are not given basic resources to be successful on the field. 

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Amazingly, Towson is one of only 11 teams in the nation with an undefeated record as the fourth week of the season begins. Great start for the Tigers. Hopefully, they can carry it into conference play, and win the conference tournament. 

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On 9/11/2017 at 7:57 PM, Tigerone94 said:

No doubt we've struggled in conference tournaments since Chris Riley left for VA Tech years ago. As for field hockey, until the University and donors provide the team with an AstroTurf field, the team will be one of the worst Div 1 programs in the country year after year. It's not fair to the student-athletes that they are not given basic resources to be successful on the field. 

great start for volleyball, and i hope they keep it going. field hockey was promised that astroturf field a long, long, long time ago. we used to be really competitive in that sport, but not so much anymore. 

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Volleyball now 16-0 and one of only 4 remaining undefeated teams in the country (Miami, Florida, Towson & JMU).  At home this Fri/Sun against Hofstra and Northeastern.  Of the two, the match on Sunday against Northeastern appears to be the biggest test.  Side note since field hockey was mentioned in this volleyball thread.  They finally won their first game of season against Long Island-Brooklyn 4-0, which was Towson's first shut out and most goals scored in many years.  Unfortunately, LIU is one of the worst, if not worst, programs in D1.  A wins a win....

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