Florida A&M will open its quest for a national championship this coming Saturday, December 5, in the opening round of the 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship at Florida State University's Tully Gymnasium.FAMU (17-9), champions of the MEAC will be the number two seed in the Tallahassee subregional, and will face Jacksonville (Ala.) State University (26-7), winners of the Ohio Valley Conference.
The number two seeding is the highest tournament seed ever for the Lady Rattlers under the mercurial Tony Trifonov, who has led FAMU to 270 match victories (270-110) and a scintillating 122-3 MEAC mark since 1997.
Host Florida State (28-2), the subregional's top seed, will host Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) champion Alabama A&M University (18-10), in the other opening round bout on Saturday.
STRIKE and STRIKE and STRIKE AGAIN
ReplyDeleteGo Lady Rattlers!
ReplyDeleteThe Lady Rattlers are doing the daggone thing all around this year!!! GO LADY RATTLERS!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing that he is able to win game with the small number of scholarship he has offered. I understand that One of the Dr. A directors even made a comment about the number of White players he has...the best players are not coming to HBCU's.
ReplyDeleteI was at the UF game a couple years ago and there were comments made suggesting that it made no sense, and was "a little unfair" for FAMU to have non-Black students on the team. These ladies are from all over and I'm proud of them. I have been for a long time now. And so what, let's win. We may have students with different backgrounds but white, they're not. As for recruiting, Coach does a great job! We should help more with scholarships etc. Also get the feeder schools to exceed the norm and we'll win across the board. Our feeder system of middle and high schools are under attack!
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