2013 Volleyball News

GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference released its Academic All-Conference Honorees list today for the Fall semester and Defiance College was well represented with 22 student-athletes making the list.

GREENWOOD, Ind. – After one of the best seasons in DC volleyball history, individuals from the 2013 squad are being recognized for their amazing year highlighted by senior Chelsea Ludeman and head coach Brie Brenner being chosen as Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Player and Coach of the Year, respectively.

DEFIANCE, Ohio – For her play in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Tournament, junior Bree Anderson was chosen to the all-tournament team for Defiance on Sunday, November 10.

DEFIANCE, Ohio – The trend of upsets in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference volleyball tournament continued, as the Yellow Jackets were stunned by the Hanover Panthers in a 3-0 defeat (20-25, 24-26, 21-25) on Saturday, November 9.

HANOVER, Ind. – With the Lady Jackets 3-0 victory over Hanover on Saturday, November 2, DC celebrated the title of outright Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference volleyball champions for the regular season.

BLUFFTON, Ohio – The Defiance College volleyball team recovered from a first-set loss to oust the arch-rival Bluffton Beavers 3-1 and secure the first conference title in the program’s history on Wednesday, October 30.

DEFIANCE, Ohio - Inside the Hive's Alyssa Turton talks with Defiance College Volleyball head coach Brie Brenner.

TERRA HAUTE, Ind. – The Defiance College volleyball team pushed its win streak to 10 on Saturday, October 26, as DC shutout Rose-Hulman and topped Illinois Wesleyan 3-1. In the process, junior Alicia Kalik set her way into the DC record books.

DEFIANCE, Ohio – In the final regular-season home match of the 2013 season, Defiance’s senior class put together a fantastic outing that led to a 3-0 win over Anderson on Wednesday, October 23.

GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Yellow Jacket volleyball program continues to get recognition during its fantastic 2013 campaign, as junior Alicia Kalik grabbed her second-straight Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Week on offense Monday, October 21.

DEFIANCE, Ohio – After the DC volleyball team had its struggles in the mid-week matchup with Manchester, it regrouped and played extremely well on Friday, October 18 in the dominant shutout (25-11, 25-11, 25-21) of the Franklin Grizzlies.

DEFIANCE, Ohio – The midweek matchup with the Manchester Spartans wasn’t as easy as many had figured it would have been, but the Yellow Jackets volleyball team got the job done with a 3-0 win on Wednesday, October 16.

GREENWOOD, Ind. – For the fourth time this season a Defiance volleyball player has come away with the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Volleyball Player of the Week on offense, after Alicia Kalik (South Lyon, Mich./South Lyon) was selected on Monday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Yellow Jackets took a pair of important matches in Kentucky Saturday afternoon, defeating defending HCAC champion, Transylvania, and one of the top programs in the country, Washington and Lee, by 3-1 victories.

RICHMOND, Ind. – The Defiance College volleyball team extended its winning streak to three on Wednesday, October 9, as it defeated the Earlham Quakers on the road by set scores of 25-19, 25-13 and 25-15. DC improves to 14-5 (2-0 HCAC) and Earlham drops to 3-17 (0-3 HCAC).

GREENWOOD, Ind. – Another exceptional weekend performance has earned Defiance College senior Chelsea Ludeman her second selection as the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Week on offense.