FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Fresno Pacific volleyball has but to lose a recreation this season.
They’re one among solely two groups ranked on this week’s AVCA coaches ballot which can be nonetheless undefeated.
Breaking the highest 25 for the primary time in 12 years wasn’t a shock to anybody in this system.
“I had no clue the place we had been going to be ranked, however I knew we deserved it,” says freshman Madelyn Feramisco.
Feramisco isn’t any stranger to main a group. A former varsity captain at Clovis East, the FPU freshman leads the Sunbirds in kills and aces this season.
Mikayla Weiss, a Buchanan grad, simply notched her a thousandth profession help.
The homegrown expertise is apparent – the intangibles are what have set this group aside.
“I might say the group tradition is totally different than every other group I have been on,” Weiss mentioned. “All of us love one another, assist one another on and off the courtroom and in each side of life.”
Two years in the past, coach Kelsee Montagna was handed a program that seemed rather a lot totally different.
“I knew there wanted to be a tradition change,” she mentioned.
The small shift in strategy led to an even bigger shift on the courtroom. A roster crammed with Central Valley natives exhibiting up for this system is seeing the Central Valley present up for them.
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