Episode 203, College Volleyball Weekly, Men’s Top 20, Week 2 Recap & Week 3 Preview, 1/15/24

The Viral Volley Podcast

This week’s episode starts out my remembering and honoring Tom Tait, the founder of Penn St. Men’s and Women’s Volleyball who passed late last week. He was the catalyst of volleyball in Pennsylvania, the East Coast and EIVA. Coach Tait invested his life into volleyball and the people who were around him—including Russ Rose (PSU WVB) and Mark Pavlik (PSU MVB).

The CVW MT20 crew discusses some of the top matches in Week 2 of the 2024 NCAA Men’s D1-2 Volleyball season that include a few upsets and almost-upsets along with eye-catching performances from the top athletes in the week that include, Camden Gianni and Jackson Hickman of GCU, Jacob Pasteur of Ohio St., and Nolan Flexen of UC Irvine. We then ask the panel if UCLA and Long Beach St. are as good as the polls suggest.

As always, we finish up with key matches to watch in Week 3!