Kevin Burch after helping guide Springfield to a NCAA Division III championship will now join the coaching staff of the defending NCAA Division I champions.
UC Irvine announced Friday that it hired Burch to be an assistant coach for the upcoming season.
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A Pfeiffer middle attacker was killed during the weekend as a result of a car accident.
Lance Johnson, a junior, died in a one-car accident Sunday near his home in Pennsylvania, according to the Pfeiffer athletics department.
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A former all-conference libero from Lewis will move to the college sidelines for the upcoming season.
The Toledo athletics department announced Monday that it hired Nick Perakes to serve as a women’s volleyball assistant coach for the 2012 season.
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Penn State after a one-year hiatus will return to Hawaii to open its season at the annual Outrigger Invitational.
The Nittany Lions return to the island was made official last week as Hawai’i unveiled its 2013 schedule and announced that Penn State, Ohio State and UCLA will play in the school’s home tournament in January 2013.
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Three NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball teams received a national honor for their performance in the classroom during the 2011-12 school year.
The American Volleyball Coaches Association announced Friday that George Mason, Harvard and Stanford earned the annual Team Academic Award.
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David Kniffin one year after leaving UC Irvine will now return to the school to become its next head coach.
The UC Irvine athletics department announced Monday morning that it hired Kniffin to be the head coach of the defending NCAA champions Anteaters.
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Anyone who missed Pepperdine coach Marv Dunphy win his 500th career match will get a chance to see him try to accomplish the feat again.
Dunphy moved back below the 500-win milestone earlier this week after the NCAA vacated Pepperdine’s 66 victories from 2008-11 because of NCAA rule violations — dropping the Hall of Fame coach from 532 to 466 career wins.
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More than 10 men’s volleyball incoming freshmen recruits ended their club careers with top individual honors at the nation’s premier tournament.
Fifteen recent high school graduates who have committed college men’s volleyball teams for the upcoming season were selected Wednesday to an All-Tournament Team at the USA Volleyball Boys’ Junior National Championships.
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Pepperdine will have to vacate its most recent MPSF championship and have scholarship reductions during the next three years because of NCAA violations.
The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions announced Tuesday that Pepperdine was sanctioned for failing to monitor its athletics department and improperly distributing financial aid to student-athletes.
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