U of M Spring Tournament Schedule

On Saturday, April 9th, the Warriors will travel to Ann Arbor to participate in the Michigan Volleyball Spring Invitational. The Warriors schedule is:

10:00 AM University of Michigan
11:15 AM Oakland University
12:30 PM University of Toledo
2:30 PM Western Michigan University

The tournament will be held at Cliff Keen Arena. Come out and support the Warriors.

8-0 at Madonna Tournament

The Warriors traveled to Madonna University on Saturday for their second tournament of the spring. We opened the day by playing Madonna, winning 25-20 and 26-24. In the second match, we beat Rochester College 25-17 and 25-20. Against Marygrove, we won by the scores 25-12 and 25-9. In the final match of the day, we defeated a team from Oakland Community College 25-20 and 25-16.

The Warriors will continue the spring season next Saturday at the University of Michigan.

Go Warriors!

Tourney Recap

On Saturday, the Warriors traveled to Ypsilanti to play in Eastern Michigan's spring tournament. We started in a pool with Madonna, Saginaw Valley State, and Northwood. Pool play consisted of 2 games (I can't call them sets) to 25 or 45 minutes. We started out by beating Madonna 25-22 and 25-17. In the second match, we beat Saginaw Valley State 25-20 and 25-18. In the final match of pool play, we split with Northwood 25-21 and 23-25. We played pretty well in each match, but had a hard time controlling the tempo against Northwood. By winning our pool, we got to play the first place team from Pool A, which was Eastern Michigan. There was definitely a difference in the tempo at which Eastern was playing and the teams we had played in pool play, so it took us most of game 1 to adjust to the speed. We lost 20-25, but as we became acclimated to the tempo, we were able to win game 2 25-22, setting up a 15 point third game. We struggled with serve receive at the beginning, putting ourselves in a 6-0 hole. We fought out of it and got the score to within 2 or 3 points, but couldn't get any closer than that, eventually dropping the set 9-15.

Overall, it was a good weekend for the Warriors. This weekend, we head to Madonna for their spring tournament. Competing for the Warriors this spring is Kate Sak, Cydney Biessel, Madie Kent, Lindsey Graciak, Nicole Arends, Kristen Bulkiewicz, Amanda Wetherill, Jessica DeLeeuw, Jen Finkbeiner, and Kris Vulaj.

Warriors Open Spring Season On Saturday

The Warriors take to the court for the first time this spring on Satuday, March 26th at Eastern Michigan University. With 10 players in the gym this spring, we are looking to make great strides toward improving on our 4th place finish in the GLIAC last year. The team has been in the gym since the end of January, with 5 weeks of individual workouts and this, our third week of team practice. The schedule for this weekends action is:

9:00 AM vs Madonna University

10:55 AM vs Saginaw Valley State University

1:40 PM vs Northwood University

2:40 or Crossover Match vs TBD
3:40

Go Warriors!

Spring Schedule

The Warriors will be playing in four tournaments this spring.

March 26 @ Eastern Michigan
April 2 @ Madonna
April 9 @ Univ. of Michigan
April 16 Wayne State Spring Tournament

Hope to see you at one of these events.

Go Warriors!

Good Luck Jacqui

CHICAGO, IL - Last week Michigan native Jacqui Gatt was named the new Illinois Tech Head Women's Volleyball Coach. Gatt joins the IIT community after spending the last 3 years as the assistant coach for Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Gatt helped lead the Warriors to a 51-33 record in addition to coaching 2 players who received All-American honors.

Jacqui has also served as the Head Tier Trainer for the last three years for the Premier Volleyball Academy in Maumee, Ohio. In this time she has also coached the 18U National Volleyball Team out of the Premier Volleyball Academy.

Gatt spent her college career at Madonna University where some of her playing highlights included: 3 time All-Conference player, 2 time All-Region player, 2007 National Runner-Up libero of the year, 2007 All-American, and WHAC All-Freshman team in 2004. Gatt graduated from Madonna University in 2008 with a BA in Sport Management. Jacqui has a Master's degree in Sport Administration from Wayne State in 2010.

The Illinois Tech Athletic Department is pleased to welcome Gatt to the staff. Her experience and knowledge in volleyball will help continue the program on their winning ways.

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