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Wisconsin Badgers volleyball: Left-hander from Norway commits
Julie Mikaelsen, a 6-foot-2 right-side hitter who is left-handed, has signed a letter of intent to play at UW and will enroll this fall. read story
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball: Waite taps old stomping grounds for latest recruit
UW volleyball coach Pete Waite, who coached at Northern Illinois in DeKalb for 11 years, has received a verbal commitment from sophomore Courtney Thomas, a 6-foot outside hitter from DeKalb High School who is forecast as a setter at the college level. read story
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball: Gabrielsen, Ohlander named to Big Ten All-Freshman team
Wisconsin's Janelle Gabrielsen and Elle Ohlander were named Monday to the Big Ten Conference All-Freshman volleyball team. read story
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball: No NCAA tourney bid
As expected, the University of Wisconsin volleyball team was left out of the NCAA Tournament field announced Sunday night. For the first time in 13 years, the Badgers won't be competing in postseason play. read story
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball: UW swept by Illinois
The University of Wisconsin Badgers volleyball team didn't do itself any favors Friday night when it got swept 3-0 by Illinois which put a serious dent in its chances to land an NCAA tournament berth. read story
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball: UW sweeps Iowa
The Wisconsin volleyball team swept Iowa 25-16, 25-23, 25-16 in a Big Ten Conference match at the UW Field House on Sunday.
The Badgers improved to 17-11 overall and now hold sole possession of sixth place in the Big Ten at 7-9.
Wisconsin played without starting outside hitter Brittney Dolgner, who injured an ankle Sunday morning. Sophomore Allison Wack started in place of Dolgner and recorded a career-high 14 digs while adding seven kills and three blocks.
Audra Jeffers led the Badgers with 10 kills, while Caity DuPont and Morgan Salow both added nine kills to the UW offense.
Wisconsin dominated Iowa offensively, putting up 47 team kills and hitting .221. The Hawkeyes had only 25 kills, led by 11 from Aimee Huffman, while hitting .057.
The Badgers travel to Indiana and top-ranked Penn State next Friday and Saturday before returning home to host Illinois and Purdue in its final regular-season matches on Nov. 28 and Nov. 29.
read storyWisconsin Badgers volleyball: 5-set thriller ends in loss to Gophers
A thriller of a match ended the wrong way Friday night for the Wisconsin volleyball team and its fans at the Field House. In front of 5,644 fans, the Badgers fell short against 15th-ranked Minnesota -- 18-25, 25-18, 25-27, 31-29, 19-17. read story
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball: Waite announces recruiting class
The Wisconsin Badgers volleyball team signed an outside hitter and middle blocker on Wednesday, coach Pete Waite announced. The Badgers also will welcome Middleton's Kirby Toon as a preferred walk-on. read story
Wisconsin Badgers volleyball: Freefall continues with 5-set loss
The annual Halloween match for the University of Wisconsin volleyball team used to be a season highlight when the Badgers were virtually unbeatable.
Not anymore as Wisconsin dressed up for Halloween Friday night at the UW Field House as just another team and lost in five sets to Michigan State in a Big Ten Conference match.
Wisconsin's fifth loss in the past six matches meant the Badgers (15-9, 5-7 Big Ten) are continuing their freefall down the Big Ten Conference standings and are in danger of missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1995. Michigan State improved to 12-10 overall and 4-7 in the Big Ten.
It was also the Badgers' first loss in eight matches played on or near Halloween at the Field House. The crowd of 3,329 was quiet with few students showing up in costume. That was vastly different than past seasons when the Halloween match drew the largest, and most vocal, crowd of the season.
But this is a different UW team, too, because it lacks many of the strengths of its past teams that were always among the most fundamentally sound in the conference. This squad is bogged down with mental mistakes and lacks any consistent focus.
``There were just too many errors on our side of the net tonight,'' said UW coach Pete Waite after the Badgers lost to a Michigan State squad they swept in East Lansing earlier this season.
``At some critical times, whether it's service errors, hitting errors, net faults, they are all points for the other team in rally scoring and gave them enough momentum to make some moves on us,'' Waite added.
That explains why the Badgers looked so good rallying to win the fourth set but didn't use it to create any momentum and went down looking so bad in the fifth.
In the fourth, Wisconsin was trailing 20-18 when they rallied to win the set with a 7-1 run that included two kills each by freshman Janelle Gabrielsen and junior Brittney Dolgner, a kill by junior Caity DuPont and a block by senior Morgan Salow and Gabrielsen.
But after DuPont got the first point of the fifth set, the Badgers couldn't mount any kind of a consistent attack and then made some inexplicable errors to allow the Spartans to run away with the set and match. Fittingly, set and match point came on a mental error at the net by the Badgers.
``A lot is just discipline,'' said Waite, who added that the Badgers aren't training differently this season. ``It's just a matter of when we're going to grab it and just run with a low-error game.''
One highlight of the match was Dolgner's career-high 20 digs. She also had a team-high 18 kills. Sophomore libero Kim Kuzma had a team-high 22 digs for the Badgers, who were out-dug 84-82 and out-blocked 16-12. The Spartans hit .171 while the Badgers hit 168.
Freshman Kyndra Abron, a 6-foot-3 outside hitter, had a match-high 20 kills for the Spartans.
``I do think the passers did a good job for the most part in the match, they just have to stay consistent with it,'' said Waite. ``They made some errors late. That's the biggest thing: mental toughness throughout a five-game match.
``You just can't be there in spurts,'' he continued. ``It has to be everybody on the court and everybody who enters the court has to come in with the right mentality of playing a clean game and thinking and flowing together.''
UW volleyball: Badgers lose two at home this weekend
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team, which had been ranked No. 21 in the nation heading into the weekend, dropped its second consecutive home match Sunday. read story
