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The 2024 Penn State Nittany Lions women's volleyball team represents the Pennsylvania State University in the 2024 NCAA Division I women's volleyball season. The Penn State Nittany Lions women's volleyball team, led by 3rd year head coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley, play their home games at Rec Hall. The Nittany Lions are members of the Big Ten.
The Penn State Nittany Lions women's volleyball program has had a long tradition, founded in 1976 by Tom Tait, long-time coach of the Penn State men's team, who coached the women's team from 1976 to 1979 and was named a USA Volleyball All-Time great coach in 2007.
Penn State went 23–9, reaching the third round of the NCAA tournament. [7] [8] In her fifth season of eligibility, granted to college athletes because of the pandemic, she made 4.25 kills per set with career highs of 0.256 hitting, 2.37 digs, and 0.40 assists per set, earning first-team All-Big 12 and first-team All-American honors.
Nebraska had two match point opportunities at 24–22, but Penn State tied it at 24–24. Penn State eventually won the fourth set, 28–26, to force a fifth set. In the fifth set, Penn State was able to maintain at least a 1-point lead throughout most of the set, and eventually won on a final kill from senior outside hitter Camryn Hannah, 15–13.
The Penn State women's volleyball team, one of the nation's premier volleyball programs, is coached by Russ Rose, who, since his first season in 1979, has led the Nittany Lions to a record of 1,189 and 186, an .865 winning percentage, through the end of 2015.
Penn State improved to 55–3 all time in the EIVA championship. [12] Penn State was the top seed in the final four, the first time in the history of the men's volleyball tournament that a non-west coast university was the top seed. [13] The final four was held in Irvine, California at the Bren Events Center from May 1–3.
Dimitrova earned the Opposite Hitter of the Year Award and was named to the All-PVF First team in her only season with the Columbus Fury. [ 3 ] On June 29, 2024, the Omaha Supernovas announced that Jess Schaben-Lansman retired from professional volleyball to take a coaching role at a local high school.
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