(12-09-2023, 11:14 PM)paloalto Wrote:Watching some Ipar KURT's match highlights with her Turkish junior national team,(12-09-2023, 10:35 PM)joemontes Wrote: So looking at next season,
Stanford will have returning starters:
Jr RUBIN at OH1
Sr MINER at S
Sr FRANCIS at MB1
Sr OGLIVIE at L
And then most likely:
So BLYASHOV/ RSFr KURT at OH2 (replaces BAIRD)
So HARVEY at OPP (replaces KIPP)
Fr ANDREWS at MB2 (replaces VICINI)
Rubin is starting to remind me of Jordan Burgess. Burgess was the best digging and passing Stanford OH I have seen. FWIW Burgess is currently a full time student in the Stanford School of Medicine.
I haven't seen enough of Blyashov to know about her back row defense but I suspect it will be an upgrade. Passing and back row may be better next year. Middles and Opp good but probably not better than this year. IMO if Stanford gets all the recruits I'm hoping for in 2025, that will be the next year to look at a possible final four. Seems a long way off.
it seems that she played primarily as an OPP/Right Side hitter.
So maybe she can play either OH2 or OPP or both for Stanford next season,
or is she being penciled exclusively as an OH by Hambly?