Perhaps no one is more hyped about the No. 3 Wisconsin Badgers upsetting No. 1 Texas during the 2025 NCAA volleyball tournament than star Carter Booth.

On Sunday, the Badgers unleashed an elite game plan to get a dominant 3-1 win in the Elite Eight over the Longhorns. The victory was the 13th straight win for Wisconsin, which now has a date in the Final Four in Kansas City later this week. After the match, Booth was still amped up during an ESPN interview when she dropped a pretty big F-bomb.

“I refuse to [ expletive] lose,” she said matter-of-factly.

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LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – After 28 successful seasons of leading the Lincoln Lutheran volleyball program, Sue Ziegler is retiring. The legendary head volleyball coach announced the decision during a team meeting on Monday.

Ziegler is a 6-time state champion (2004, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024) and member of the Nebraska High School Hall of Fame. In 2021, she was recognized as the AVCA National High School Coach of the Year. Ziegler totaled 624 wins over her career, which ranks among the state’s all-time leaders.

Ziegler’s teams reached the NSAA State Tournament 15 times, including each of the last nine years. Prior to the 2024 season, Lincoln Lutheran dedicated its court to the longtime volleyball coach.

Lincoln Lutheran said the search for a new head coach will begin immediately.

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CHICAGO – The Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) named Loyola Chicago as the No. 1 favorite in the league’s preseason poll, announced on Monday. Ryan McElligott, Daniel Fabikovic and Aleksandar Sosa tabbed spots on the Preseason All-MIVA Team.  

The MIVA Preseason Poll and All-MIVA Team are voted on by the nine MIVA head coaches. 

After finishing the 2025 season as the MIVA regular season and tournament champions, the Ramblers claim the top spot with 75 points and five first place votes. MIVA Tournament runner-up Ohio State ranks second and Ball State rounds out the top three.   

Senior setter McElligott led both the NCAA and the MIVA in assists in 2025, totaling 1,1016, earning him All-MIVA First Team and All-Tournament Team, and an AVCA All-American Honorable Mention. He added 75 kills, 69 total blocks and 32 service aces.  

Fabikovic was a menace on the court last season, starting all 29 matches and seeing action in 105 sets where he contributed 343 kills, the most amongst returning Ramblers. The junior outside hitter tallied 403.5 points during his sophomore campaign which earned him All-MIVA First Team and All-Tournament Team as well as a back-to-back AVCA Second Team All-American nod.  

Sosa, a junior transfer from Quincy, was named to the 2025 All-MIVA Second Team after leading the Hawks in points, kills and aces. The opposite finished fifth in the MIVA in kills per set and fourth in points per set and posted double-digit kills in 18 matches, including 15 straight to cap the season.  

2026 MIVA Preseason Poll 

1. Loyola Chicago – 73 (5) 

2. Ohio State – 68 (2) 

3. Ball State – 63 (1) 

4. Lewis – 57 (1) 

5. McKendree – 52 

6. Lindenwood – 33 

7. Purdue Fort Wayne – 24 

8. Northern Kentucky – 19 

9. Queens – 16 

2026 Preseason All-MIVA Team (alphabetical by team) 

Lucas Machado – Ball State 

*Patrick Rogers – Ball State 

Oguzhan Oguz – Lewis 

Nico Paula – Lewis 

Ryan McElligott – Loyola Chicago 

Daniel Fabikovic – Loyola Chicago 

Aleksander Sosa – Loyola Chicago 

Yadiel Diaz – McKendree 

Nate Flayter – McKendree 

Stanislaw Chacinski – Ohio State 

Shane Wetzel – Ohio State 

Logan Muir – Purdue Fort Wayne 

*Preseason Player of the Year 

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