Eagle volleyball program starts second year

The small team lost their first game, but the team holds lots of potential, according to Coach Bre Sykes.

The defending state champion MUHS team is on a double-digit winning streak that continues from last year.

There are plenty of games lined up the next few days.

The Middlebury College team return its leading offensive star for her final season with the Panthers.

Does winning foster team chemistry, or does team chemistry lead to winning? It’s a good question, and this past fall high school sports season helps to answer it.

The Tigers defeated No. 3 Enosburg, three hard-fought sets to none, to claim the Division II championship.

No. 1 seed MUHS girls’ volleyball easily got past a skunky, but overmatched, No. 9 seed Vermont Commons School squad in a Division II quarterfinal, three sets to none.

The Middlebury and Mount Abraham girls’ volleyball teams each won two recent matches as their regular seasons enter the home stretch.

Mt. Abe’s first-year varsity volleyball team lost to visiting Middlebury on Monday.

The Middlebury Union High School volleyball team kept up its winning ways with a pair of three-set victories, while the first-year Mount Abraham program came up short in its only outing.

In local high school girls’ volleyball action in the past week, Middlebury opened its season by winning twice in three outings, while varsity newcomer Mount Abraham prevailed once in three matches. 

The Mount Abraham girls’ volleyball team won their first match as an official varsity sport.

When Middlebury College women’s volleyball team defeated Manhattanville College in the 2023 NCAA postseason tournament it gave Middlebury volleyball coach Sarah Raunecker 500 wins exactly for her career at Middlebury.

The Middlebury College volleyball team won two NCAA Division III matches in a regional hosted by Juniata College in Pennsylvania late last week before falling to their top-ranked hosts in the third round, 3-0.

The second-seeded Middlebury College volleyball team defeated top-seeded host Colby, 3-2 (14-25, 25-16, 25-22, 16-25, 16-14), on this past Saturday to claim the program’s sixth NESCAC title.