Wow! What a great road win against a ranked, previously-undefeated-at-home team. Great overall effort.

The Tigers never seemed to be able to stop the short set to the center. I don't know how many points we scored off of that play, but it was a lot.

Way to go Ladies!

We need to start putting coach's challenge record on here too

Great win.

Even though Rachel Corbelli is an assistant coach at auburn it's tough seeing John and Lori wearing auburn shirts at the match.

I wish we could eliminate our service errors.

She just got voted into the Texas A&M hall of fame, she's fine lol. She's an aggie til they die. All their kids went to A&M too.

This team is getting better. At no point last night did I feel we lost control of the game. It was a tight match but our girls were confident. We're the only SEC team so far to take a set from t.u. and we were competitive in all but the first set.

Middles did really well vs Auburn though there was a lull in blocking at times.
Underwood is also doing really well. I think she's wrapped up the libero position?
Really happy Hellmuth finally figured out how to hit in this system. Hopefully she can sustain the progress which have been lacking with the OHs in recent years.
Waak I felt started off the season well but recently had some minor issues in recent games. But she's back now!
Lednicky is having a year so far. Very hard to shut down. I wish she had a couple more years with this program instead of just one more.

Volleytalk poll has A&M coming in at No. 25.

It's just a fan poll, but sometimes I get the feeling the posters on Volleytalk put more thought into it than the coaches do each week what with their more pressing job of coaching their team.

https://volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/100845/volleytalk-fall-2024-week-rankings

Masseyratings has us at 24, the rest of the sec in the top 50 are

6. tu
16. Kentucky
21. Arkansas
24. TEXAS A&M
25. Florida
28. Auburn
32. Tennessee

45. Oklahoma
46. Missouri
48. Ole Miss

https://masseyratings.com/cvol/ncaa-d1/ratings

Here is RPI from the NCAA website, first version I've seen posted this year. We are at 22.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/volleyball-women/d1/ncaa-womens-volleyball-rpi

Receiving votes in the AVCA, #28. Even more interesting, Auburn is still ranked at #25.

https://www.avca.org/polls-awards/polls/?_divisions=division-i-women

RadCouncil 21 said:

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That 5th in state is a stark figure

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Baylor at #15. We are closing the gap. I would be VERY happy if we ended the season in the teens.

I'm excited for Megan Fitch to come in an be the immediate OH2, which we need bad this year

Wicked Good Ag said:

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While I am excited on this play and the continued improvement I also can't wait for the 2025 class to come in and mesh with these current players. I think we I'll be even more complete and also a lot of depth and players pushing each other for playing time

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and we only lose Molly Brown to graduation, and maybe Ellee Stinson! We bring back everyone which will be scary! With what I think we can accomplish this season combined with another year of experience and a talented recruiting class!! MY OH MY!

Another outside hitter seems to be a significant need for this team.

Today I listened to the Answering the call podcast with ifenna Cos-BLOCKpalla as guest (Sept 26). Good listen. At one point she was talking about Jamie really knowing volleyball and helping her improve where she had struggled her freshman year. She must have said Jamie really knows volleyball 5 times.

I forgot where I heard it, but i remember her saying that when Bird was coaching she was quitting after the season but when Jamie came in she said it was a sign to give it one more try and she fell back in love with the sport