Longtime Viterbo volleyball coach Ryan DeLong joined WIZM’s La Crosse Talk, as his team continues in the NAIA tournament. We discuss volleyball in the area, the expectations — perhaps unfairly — put on the 15th-ranked V-Hawks to seemingly always qualify for the postseason and how they got here this time around.
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This is DeLong’s 20th year at Viterbo, which moved to a new conference this season and proceeded to win it and take multiple awards. The V-Hawks (26-9) have won conference titles in 11 of their past 15 seasons and have gotten to the NAIA Final Four five times over that span. Viterbo begins pool play at 7:30 p.m. Thursday with 20th-ranked Nelson (Texas / 30-5). At 7:30 p.m. Friday, the V-Hawks face No. 7 Southern Oregon (29-3).
TOP PHOTO: FILE – Viterbo’s Sadie Treptow (9) and Casey Frankland (8) celebrate a point (PHOTO: Viterbo Athletics)