The conventional wisdom and narrative is that this team met or exceeded expectations, and in general they did, even if we factor in that Hawai’i was a complete non-factor this season. The number of fans in the stands was disappointing, and other than the men’s team, the student section was anemic. The athletic dept should spring for a few hundred student passes and invest in the environment.
There are still rumblings, however. Logan King is rumored to be considering entering the portal—and she’s likely to get some attention and offers even If she isn’t. Natalie has a perma-grin pasted on, and gives the impression that everything is peachy, but the team isn’t enamored (although the team is fairly tight-knit). Not enough involvement from her, and too much delegation to Molina is the complaint (and no one knows what the Assoc HC does).
With Hawai’i and Davis gone, the Big West keeps lurching into mediocrity, and the goal of at least being the best in the conference starts to resemble a rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic. I would like to see a revitalized plan for some NIL for women’s volleyball, but I don’t really expect it to happen. 
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had another stellar serving game. She had great movement on that serve all year and she rarely made service errors, which is tough for a serving sub.
wish she would play another year, she was a top notch serving specialist. Previous Message
an entertaining match....for the first 3 sets lol
Beach had chances each set, especially in that crunch 3rd set, and just could not make some plays. Had real trouble with Beshear's serve.
and then just flopped on some not so difficult serves in a run by Poly 4th set.
Agi had a great attacking game, and helped keep things close.
now see what transpires in the new era of the portal.
even assuming everyone that could came back, there's a lot of development/recruiting for the OHs and pins.
hoping some way they can keep this young core together, and King obviously is a stud to build a team around. Painful to see her out of the rotation in that 4th set and often. She has a back row attack and in the future has to be in there.
Mad Max developed quite a bit. This was a fun team to see develop and watch, especially how defense played with the MB and backrow liberos and DS all starting for the first time.
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