INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – Garnering a second seed in the Atlantic Region, the Clarion University women’s volleyball team earned it sixth straight NCAA Division II playoff berth Sunday.
The PSAC West champion Golden Eagles (29-4), who are in the NCAA Division II Tournament for the 11th time in the past 13 years, will take on PSAC West rival Edinboro, the seventh seed, Thursday at Wheeling Jesuit. A team on the match is to be announced.
“I am really exited for the girls,” Clarion’s eighth-year head coach Jennifer Mills, who has won the last two PSAC West Coach of the Year awards, said. “I think the girls are really ready.”
Clarion, which won the Atlantic Region title in 2010 for the only time in school history, is led by the PSAC West Athlete of the Year, Laura Subject, the PSAC West Defensive Player of the Year Morgan Seybold, and the PSAC West Rookie of the Year Gabrielle Olson.
“It’s so exciting,” Subject said. “We were all watching as a team. It’s just nice to see our hard work throughout the season has paid off.”
NOTES – Host Wheeling Jesuit is the top seed and will take on eighth-seeded Chowan. The winner of the Clarion-Edinboro match will face the winner of the match between PSAC Champion California (Pa.), the third seed, and Mercyhurst, the sixth seed, Friday at Wheeling Jesuit … The fourth first-round match in the Atlantic Region pits fourth-seeded Seton Hill against fifth-seeded Gannon … The Regional championship will be played Saturday … All Atlantic Region matches will be at Wheeling Jesuit … Last season, Clarion was also the No. 2 seed and beat Seton Hill in the opening round before losing to California (Pa.) in the Round of 32. It marked the second straight year Clarion was 1-1 in the tournament. The Golden Eagles beat Lock Haven in 2012 in the opening round before falling to Wheeling Jesuit in the Round of 32 … Clarion and Edinboro met twice this year with Clarion winning both times by 3-1 scores.
