(01-21-2021, 10:04 AM)BobK Wrote: It’s so ironic that men’s volleyball has both a transfer from another college plus a JC transfer and have that program in their final year
Men's varsity volleyball has been on a rollercoaster ride for years in the NCAA, with universities adding and dropping the sport. Today, only Princeton and Harvard have men's varsity volleyball teams. In the 1974/1975 season, Yale not only had a volleyball team, but they went to the quarterfinals of the NCAA championship, losing to UC Santa Barbara in the first round. Allegedly, prior to the tournament, the 31-3 Yale team was told that if they won the EIVA, they would be given varsity status the next year. Alas, it was not to be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_NCAA_...Tournament
Andy Fishburn from the 1974/75 team transferred to Stanford after his sophomore year at Yale, in the process becoming one of the finest men's beach volleyball players in history. Fishburn is #12 in the photo below:
https://www.eivavolleyball.com/releases/...F_Fishburn
![[Image: Yale_Team.jpeg?max_height=574&max_width=766]](https://www.eivavolleyball.com/releases/2019-20/EIVA/Yale_Team.jpeg?max_height=574&max_width=766)
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