[hurricane fan]

Lady Flames vs. #10 California in Durham, NC

Roster:

• No. Name Position Height Year Exp. Hometown/Previous School
  1 Carli Lloyd S 5-11 FR HS Bonsall, Calif./Fallbrook Union HS
  2 Kristen Kathan DS/L 5-6 SO 1V Moraga, Calif./Campolindo HS
  3 Morgan Beck OH/MH 6-3 JR 2V Coto De Caza, Calif./San Clemente HS
  5 Maria Zizka S 5-9 FR HS Oakland, Calif./Bishop O'Dowd HS
  6 Angie Pressey OH 5-8 SR 3V Heathrow, Fla./Lake Mary HS
  7 Cat Dailey OH 6-1 SO 1V Newport Beach, Calif./Sage Hill HS
  8 Am'ra Solomon OH 6-0 JR 2V Los Angeles, Calif./St. Bernard HS
  10 Kat Reilly MH 6-2 SO 1V Plano, Texas/Plano East Senior HS
  11 Ellen Orchard MH 6-3 SR 3V Houston, Texas/Cypress Springs HS
  14 Caitlyn Murphy DS/L/OH 5-10 FR HS Roseville, Calif./Granite Bay HS
  21 Mindi Wiley MH 6-3 SO 1V Sonoma, Calif./Sonoma Valley HS
  26 Hana Cutura OH 6-3 SO 1V Zagreb, Croatia/Sportska Gimnazija
  44 Meagan Schmitt DS/L 5-9 FR HS Kentfield, Calif./Redwood HS

Match Results:

• Date Location Result
  Nov 23 Stanford, CA Stanford 3, California 2 (30-32,30-19,23-30,30-22,16-14)
  Nov 17 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Arizona State 0 (30-27,34-32,30-22)
  Nov 16 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Arizona 0 (30-25,38-36,30-22)
  Nov 09 Seattle, Wash. Washington 3, California 1 (16-30,30-21,30-26,30-22)
  Nov 08 Pullman, Wash. California 3, Washington State 0 (30-16,30-18,30-28)
  Nov 02 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Oregon 0 (30-23,30-28,30-23)
  Nov 01 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Oregon State 0 (30-15,30-19,30-23)
  Oct 27 Los Angeles, Calif. California 3, UCLA 2 (27-30,30-20,27-30,30-27,17-15)
  Oct 26 Los Angeles, Calif. USC 3, California 2 (30-21,37-39,30-26,33-35,15-10)
  Oct 19 Tucson, Ariz. California 3, Arizona 2 (20-30,23-30,30-28,30-22,15-12)
  Oct 18 Tempe, Ariz. California 3, Arizona State 1 (27-30,30-26,30-20,30-26)
  Oct 12 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Washington State 0 (30-18,30-22,31-29)
  Oct 11 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Washington 2 (30-28,25-30,15-30,30-24,15-11)
  Oct 05 Corvallis, Ore. California 3, Oregon State 0 (30-17,30-24,30-13)
  Oct 04 Eugene, Ore. California 3, Oregon 1 (30-27,31-29,22-30,30-24)
  Sep 28 Berkeley, Calif. USC 3, California 1 (17-30,30-25,30-19,30-27)
  Sep 27 Berkeley, Calif UCLA 3, California 2 (28-30,24-30,30-28,31-29,15-9)
  Sep 21 Berkeley, Calif. Stanford 3, California 1 (27-30,30-26,32-30,30-25)
  Sep 15 Santa Clara, Calif. California 3, Notre Dame 2 (23-30,24-30,30-28,30-24,15-11)
  Sep 14 Santa Clara, Calif. California 3, Santa Clara 0 (30-20,30-19,30-25)
  Sep 08 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Minnesota 0 (30-16,30-21,30-19)
  Sep 08 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Eastern Kentucky 0 (30-16,30-16,30-19)
  Sep 07 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Utah State 0 (30-14,30-19,30-28)
  Sep 02 Boulder, Colo. Colorado 3, California 0 (30-28,30-25,30-28)
  Sep 01 Boulder, Colo. California 3, UNCW 0 (30-16,30-14,30-13)
  Aug 31 Boulder, Colo. California 3, UCF 0 (30-17,30-20,30-18)
  Aug 25 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Fla. International 0 (30-23,30-16,30-21)
  Aug 25 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Northeastern 0 (30-22,30-19,30-15)
  Aug 24 Berkeley, Calif. California 3, Idaho 0 (30-20,30-23,30-15)

[PAmedic]

hmmm.

don't know anything about that program and this ^^^^ hurts my eyes

synopsis?

either way, GO FLAMES!

[HenryGale]

Yea...they do not look to bad...hate to see a draw of a west coast team. Lets hope we are ready to go, do not let them intimidate us and play our game!

[hurricane fan]

I do like the fact that Cal has to travel across the country and we drive a couple hours.

[ToTheLeft]

Well, it will be MUCH closer to home for our girls. It is in Durham, after all.

Go Lady Flames!

[HenryGale]

Yup

[Hold My Own]

I cant say this is that bad of a draw...Pinder mentioned early on maybe Clemson and they are 20 in the country and Cal is 18...not a huge difference....


Whats sad though is we werent to far off from getting Duke (28 in the country)....American is 80 in the country and we are not but a few spots behind them in the polls and they landed Duke


Duke is the place we went to the last time I went to the Volleyball Tourny...it was a very fun place to watch it at and we sat with Boozer!

[Buck_Bronson]

Division I CSTV/AVCA Coaches Poll: Nov. 19, 2007
Rank School (First-Place Votes) Pts. Record Prev.

• 1 Penn State (35) 1469 26-2 1
  2 Nebraska (19) 1448 25-1 2
  3 Texas (6) 1384 22-3 3
  4 Stanford 1337 26-2 4
  5 Southern California 1180 23-4 8
  6 Washington 1175 24-3 5
  7 California 1170 22-6 6
  8 Florida 1144 26-1 7
  9 Wisconsin 1004 22-4 9
  10 UCLA 918 18-9 10
  11 Hawaii 889 24-5 11
  12 Kansas State 829 22-7 12
  13 Oregon 735 19-9 14
  14 New Mexico State 706 26-5 13
  15 Dayton 605 30-1 16
  16 San Diego 520 21-7 18
  17 Cal Poly 496 21-7 19
  18 St. John’s 469 31-3 20
  19 Ohio 377 25-5 15
  20 Colorado State 333 21-6 17
  21 Oklahoma 301 20-8 22
  22 Wichita State 261 26-4 23
  23 Louisville 247 22-6 21
  24 Duke 140 22-6 24
  25 Clemson 134 26-3 NR

[PAmedic]

hey- better than drawing Penn State

thanks, BUCK BRONSON from BUTTE

[El Scorcho]

Well, it will be MUCH closer to home for our girls. It is in Durham, after all.

Mary Allice Pike is from Durham. Maybe her folks can rustle up a crowd for the game.

[Gymtalk]

In her sophomore year of youth volleyball, Kallie played the Golden Bear Volleyball Club nearly every weekend in Anaheim, California. The Golden Bear Volleyball Club is from Berkeley, but they played in the Southern California Volleyball Association that year because the northern volleyball association was to weak for their level of talent.

With pride let me say, Kallie's club team routinely beat them that year! Kallie has seen those Golden Bear uniforms (identical to the Cal uniforms) many times, and she is not intimidated! In fact I would say she has positive/confident memories.

On paper, they are a very good team, but we can play with them! Sure, they have talent, but we have talent of our own. The game is played on the court, not on paper! Our skill, grit, heart, unity, creativity, coaching, and will to win can bring the victory home! PLUS... this will be a home game for us.

Liberty in five tough games.

GO LIBERTY!!!

[thesportscritic]

wow you are confident. CAL has to travel across country while LU only gets to drive 2 hours south to play. it shall be interesting.

[Vadim]

Cal is ranked 10th in the RPI, 7th in the coaches poll. They took Stanford to 5 games early in the year. I was watching one of their matches on TV tonight just before the pairings show. They obviously are very good, but they did look human. If they take us for granted, we may be able to sneak past them.

Durham is only about 1.5 hours from us, so I think Nicki might get a good following from here to go watch. It's only 2 hours from Liberty, so hopefully we'll be able to pull a decent group from there as well.

Sorry to all you West Coast guys who have the long haul if you can make it.

[Gymtalk]

Does anyone know the game time on Friday?

The best flight from Portland to RDU would get us in at 4pm.

[thesportscritic]

probably will know the game time tomorrow.

[Vadim]

According to American's website, American plays Duke at 5:00 pm and we play Cal at 7:00 pm.

[ToTheLeft]

These's girls are on a mission, and they are gonna shock the world.

I won't predict a win or a loss. But I think these girls are gonna scare the Bears.

[thesportscritic]

here is the news from the SID's

The Liberty volleyball team will make its first NCAA Division I Tournament appearance since 2001, with a matchup against No. 10 California, Friday at Cameron Indoor Stadium on the campus of Duke University in Durham, N.C. The Big South champion Lady Flames will be meeting the Golden Bears, seeded No. 10 nationally, for the first time in program history.

http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... 10&TeamID=

[SuperJon]

Rumor has it there may be a bus going down to Durham. I don't know for sure. I'll be on it if there is.

[ToTheLeft]

Division I CSTV/AVCA Coaches Poll: Nov. 19, 2007
Rank School (First-Place Votes) Pts. Record Prev.

• 1 Penn State (35) 1469 26-2 1
  2 Nebraska (19) 1448 25-1 2
  3 Texas (6) 1384 22-3 3
  4 Stanford 1337 26-2 4
  5 Southern California 1180 23-4 8
  6 Washington 1175 24-3 5
  7 California 1170 22-6 6
  8 Florida 1144 26-1 7
  9 Wisconsin 1004 22-4 9
  10 UCLA 918 18-9 10
  11 Hawaii 889 24-5 11
  12 Kansas State 829 22-7 12
  13 Oregon 735 19-9 14
  14 New Mexico State 706 26-5 13
  15 Dayton 605 30-1 16
  16 San Diego 520 21-7 18
  17 Cal Poly 496 21-7 19
  18 St. John’s 469 31-3 20
  19 Ohio 377 25-5 15
  20 Colorado State 333 21-6 17
  21 Oklahoma 301 20-8 22
  22 Wichita State 261 26-4 23
  23 Louisville 247 22-6 21
  24 Duke 140 22-6 24
  25 Clemson 134 26-3 NR

Strange First Post, but thanks.

[Hold My Own]

I think he was showing the different rankings then the ones we mentioned (which are NCAA rankings, his are CSTV or whatever)....I think...not sure though

[ToTheLeft]

I think he was showing the different rankings then the ones we mentioned (which are NCAA rankings, his are CSTV or whatever)....I think...not sure though

not being critical at all, just odd to post for the first time like that. it's all good tho, informative.

[Hold My Own]

Oh i know...I'm with you, I didnt quite understand it

[Schfourteenteen]

Yep good first post he definitely wasnt pulling stuff out of his butte



Im such a loser

[Sly Fox]

The Cal star middle blocker went to high school with our own Anthony Smith.