Spring Volleyball

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Go Shockers - Volleyball Unveils Spring Schedule

Head coach Chris Lamb has announced the 2024 spring schedule for the Wichita State volleyball program.

• March 6 - at Oklahoma (6:30 PM)
• March 29 - at Kansas State (5:00 PM)
• April 6 - at Kansas City Tournament (Time TBD)
• April 13 - at Kansas/Missouri (Time TBD)

The schedule is filled with familiar foes. Wichita State and Oklahoma played a fall exhibition last season, with the Shockers rallying for a 3-2 win at Charles Koch Arena. Kansas State and Kansas City were spring opponent for the Shockers in 2023, and Kansas came to Wichita for the Shocker Volleyball Classic in early September.

Wichita State returns 11 players from the 2023 club that finished 26-8 and won the NIVC championship, dropping just one set over five matches in the run to the title. All-Conference selections Izzi Strand and Morgan Stout are back to complement a talented group of liberos and defensive specialists in Gabi Maas, Katie Galligan, Annalie Heliste and Reagan Anderson. Chris Lamb enters his 25th season at the helm in 2024 with 508 career wins, just the ninth active NCAA coach to reach 500 victories at a single school.

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Go Shockers - RH: Podcast On Shocker Volleyball With Katie Zimmerman, Ashleigh Houlton

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Assistant coaches Katie Zimmerman and Ashleigh Houlton update us on spring volleyball practices.

We look back at the NIVC title and how the trip to El Paso motivated the Shockers. We discuss newcomers Sarah Musial, a freshman setter, and outside Alyssa Gonzales, a transfer from TCU. We dive into Morgan Stout's improvement in 2023, what's ahead for Emerson Wilford and candidates to break into regular playing time in 2024. We wrap up with a conversation about favorite coffee places in Wichita and coach Chris Lamb's regular order at Fairmount Coffee Co.

The Shockers are early in their spring practices and they will play their spring scrimmages starting in March. Both Zimmerman and Houlton are in their third seasons on the coaching staff at WSU.

The Shockers went 26-8 last season, 15-4 in the AAC, and won five matches in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship to take that title with a sweep at UTEP.

[1972Shocker]

Interesting new rule on double touches:

• The new rule is that if the double contact occurs in a single attempt on the team’s second contact (usually the pass or set), and the ball is played to a teammate, then no fault will be called, that will be a legal play. If the double contact goes over the net to the opposing team, then that hit will be called a fault.

[Critter's Pa]

Interesting new rule on double touches:

• The new rule is that if the double contact occurs in a single attempt on the team’s second contact (usually the pass or set), and the ball is played to a teammate, then no fault will be called, that will be a legal play. If the double contact goes over the net to the opposing team, then that hit will be called a fault.

I'm glad they changed that rule. I wonder if coach has everyone working on, at least a little bit, on setting overhand. It doesn't have to be pretty, just accurate. If you have enough players that can deliver an accurate set, a team might never be out-of-system.

I believe they said we will be hosting the AAC post-season volleyball tournament next year and the AAC is still working on the conference schedule for next year after the departure of SMU.

Hopefully going to the Team USA camps will be helpful to Brooklyn, Emmerson and Morgan.

They said Lamb compared Sarah Musial to Emily Hiebert. Maybe she won't be redshirted, instead taking the starting job from Izzi..? If she could beat out Izzi as a freshman, she will have the potential to be really really good.

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I be getting tickets to this.

[WuDrWu]

Emily redshirted in 2013 and took over as a R-FR in 2014. I would expect Sarah to follow a similar path. Izzy is too good to be replaced by a freshman, I don't care how good she is, but I've been wrong many times before so who knows.

[1972Shocker]

Shocks scrimmaging OU this evening in Norman. Not sure we will hear much, if anything, about it unless a Shockernetter happens to be in attendance.

[1972Shocker]

Did a little searching but not finding anything about the OU spring scrimmage last night.

Since none of the spring scrimmages are in Wichita this year perhaps Paul Suellentrop can do a Roundhoue Podcast with Lambo once they finish up the spring schedule.

[1972Shocker]

Sounds like Coach Katie made a good impression on Sarah Musial.

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I sent an email to Paul Suellentrop suggesting a Roundhouse Podcast with Lambo after the Spring Scrimmage Season is over in mid-April. He responded that he is planning on doing that.

[1972Shocker]

Totally cryptic and a bit unusual:

I hope we don't get the follow-up on April 1st.

[1972Shocker]

Totally cryptic and a bit unusual:

I hope we don't get the follow-up on April 1st.

Possibly a couple of Class of 2025 recruits: See finds by RoyalShock on the recruiting thread:

https://shockernet.net/forum/wichita-state-athletics/wichita-state-volleyball/1376745-volleyball-recruits?p=1436392#post1436392

https://shockernet.net/forum/wichita-state-athletics/wichita-state-volleyball/1376745-volleyball-recruits?p=1436393#post1436393

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The Shocks were at K-State yesteday eveing for a scrimmate. Not find anything on my Shocker sources but K-State had quite a bit of info on their Volleyball twitter page.

https://twitter.com/kstatevb

Looks like they played 5 full sets with KSU pretty much dominating with scores of 25-12, 25-19, 25-13, 17-25 and 20-14 (last score posted on X).

As far as I know Izzi is not playing this spring due to an injury. Also keep in mind Lambo does a lot of experimenting in the spring so not sure one can read too much into these scores one way or the other.
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[WuDrWu]

Definitely see Sarah Musial #11 in those posts.

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RH: Podcast on Shocker Volleyball with Katie Galligan, Emerson Wilford

The RoundHouse | 4/10/2024 9:22:00 AM
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We check in on spring volleyball with libero/DS Katie Galligan and outside hitter Emerson Wilford. They update us on the two newcomers, goals this spring and how the NIVC title helped set a high standard in the gym. We also talk about contentious game nights at the Galligan house and how their family lives shaped their college careers. We wrap up with a Morgan Weber appreciation segment before discussing Katie's future as an influencer and plans for the team's trip to Brazil in May.

Katie Galligan is a junior libero from Omaha, Neb. She recorded a career-high 20 digs in a win over Tulsa in the National Volleyball Invitational Championship.

Emerson Wilford is a junior outside hitter from Laguna Hills, Calf. She started 17 matches last season and had three double-doubles. She recorded a team-leading 11 kills and hit .214 in the NIVC title win at UTEP.