Author Archives: Allison Ho

With more friends and family than usual coming to cheer them on at senior night Saturday, the members of the women’s volleyball team will be getting what they hope will be enough support to spur them on to what could be the biggest win of the 2007 season.

This weekend holds a grab bag of goodies for men’s volleyball fans.

There is no doubt that the defense has carried the UCLA women’s volleyball team this season. And it has also not been a surprise that its offense has been its Achilles’ heel.

After the Galen Center went pitch black, spotlights shone down on the members of the USC women’s volleyball team as they were introduced to the crowd. Although UCLA was able to steal that limelight for a moment, in the end it was the Women of Troy who proved that they were the stars of the night.

The Lyon Center, USC’s old shoe box-sized gym that was once packed to capacity and echoing with the sounds of screaming Trojan fans and the thunderous band, will no longer be able to aid the USC women’s volleyball team.

After meeting the best and the worst of the Pac-10 conference this weekend, the women’s volleyball team became acquainted with both sides of the broom, getting swept by No. 4 Washington (19-1, 8-1 Pac-10) 20-30, 27-30, 30-26, on Thursday, and sweeping Washington State (9-14, 0-9) 33-31, 30-18, 30-23, on Friday.

While the rest of her teammates are celebrating a kill, Nellie Spicer sometimes finds herself on the outside looking in.
Of the volleyball court, that is.