SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Garnet volleyball team (6-11, 1-1CC) swept Washington College 3-0 on Wednesday night at Tarble Pavilion. Swarthmore beat the Shorewomen (5-7, 0-3 CC) in the Centennial Conference match by game scores of 30-22, 30-27, and 30-20. With the victory the Garnet improve to 6-11, 1-1 CC while the Shorewomen drop to 5-8, [...]
BOX SCORE SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Garnet volleyball team got double-digit kills three different players yet fell to visiting Dickinson 3-0 Wednesday evening in the Centennial opener for both squads. The Red Devils won by game scores of 30-26, 30-26 and 30-22. Swarthmore falls to 3-9 overall, 0-1 in the Conference while the Red Devils improve [...]
SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Stevens Institute of Technology overtook Frostburg State to win the championship at the fifth annual Garnet Classic volleyball tournament, hosted by Swarthmore College this past weekend. The Ducks (10-1), led by tournament Most Valuable Player Melanie Volk (Thompson Station, Tenn./ Father Ryan), beat the Bobcats 3-0 (30-24, 30-24, 30-19). Volk, a [...]
Results: Swarthmore 3, Rutgers-Newark 0 – (30-11, 30-12, 30-11)Frostburg St. 3, Rutgers-Newark 0 – (30-12, 30-9, 30-14)Salisbury 3, Cabrini 0 – (30-24, 30-25, 30-19)Salisbury 3, Stevens Tech 2 – (27-30, 30-26, 25-30, 30-14, 15-7)Frostburg St. 3, Swarthmore 0 – (30-18, 30-22, 30-26)Stevens Tech 3, Cabrini 0 – (30-18, 30-22, 33-31) Swarthmore 3, Rutgers-Newark 0The host [...]
BOX SCORE SWARTHMORE, Pa. -Swarthmore junior outside hitter Jen Wang (Palo Alto, Calif. / Henry Gunn) posted her fourth double-double of the season, including a season-high 18 kills, yet visiting Moravian took home a 3-1 win Tuesday night in Tarble Pavilion. The Greyhounds won by scores of 16-30, 30-21, 30-25, and 30-27. The Garnet (2-5) [...]
SWARTHMORE, Pa. -The Swarthmore volleyball team made its 2007 Tarble Pavilion-debut, splitting a pair of matches with Neumann and Marymount (Md.) on a steamy Saturday afternoon. The Garnet (2-4) jumped on Neumann (4-2) in the early match, claiming the first game 30-26. The Knights re-grouped and pushed past Swarthmore by sweeping the final three games [...]
CORTLAND, N.Y. – Garnet junior outside hitter Jen Wang (Palo Alto, Calif. / Henry Gunn) posted a team-high 41 kills with two double-doubles as Swarthmore posted a 1-3 record at the 2007 Red Dragon Classic, hosted by SUNY-Cortland this past weekend. Swarthmore drew SUNY-Fredonia in the first match, falling 3-0 by scores of 30-22, 30-21, [...]
Following the 2006 season with an overall record of 12-13, the Garnet look forward to returning the Centennial Conference playoffs with a strong core of veterans. Each member of the 2007 Swarthmore volleyball team will be asked to step up and fill the void left by the graduation of outside hitter Erica George ’07. George [...]
2007 AVCA ACADEMIC RELEASE (pdf) LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Swarthmore volleyball team was one of 307 schools to earn the Game Plan/AVCA Team Academic Award for the 2006-2007 season, given by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). The award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school teams that displayed excellence in [...]
Lancaster, PA – Swarthmore College outside hitter Erica George (Phoenix, AZ / Mountain Pointe) has been named to the 2006 All-Centennial Conference second team, as voted by the conference coaches. George, a senior tri-captain, led the Garnet with 2.91 kills per game and was second on the team with 3.52 digs per game. On Sept. [...]