Tennessee announced the signing of Georgia State volleyball transfer Marta Lazzarin. She earned 2025 Sun Belt Conference Libero of the Year honors as a freshman.

“We are really excited to add Marta to our program and have her train with us this spring,” Tennessee head coach Eve Rackham Watt said. “She is an elite serve receiver and will step in right away to add stability in our passing unit.

“I am looking forward to her bringing maturity, consistency and high-level international experience to our gym. Our staff believes Marta’s development will blossom on Rocky Top and she will help us in pursuing championships.”

The 5-foot-4 libero is from Venice, Italy.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida student-athletes performed well in the academic arena this fall, with collectively earning a 3.39 term grade point average.
 
A GPA of 3.0 or higher was turned in by 18 programs this fall with 81 percent of the student-athletes reaching that mark.
 
Through The Gators Experience program, all 21 sports logged 1,931 community service hours. This includes purchasing and distributing more than 400 new pairs of shoes and socks to children in the Gainesville community earlier this month for the annual Gator Tracks program.
 
This fall, 22 student-athletes graduated with a bachelor’s degrees while another seven earned a master’s. Eight graduated with honors.
 
Gators Classroom Success Numbers

Four programs set or equaled GPA records this past semester: men’s basketball (3.19), football (3.51), gymnastics (3.76) and men’s swimming & diving (3.51).
 

Sharing the high GPA of 3.51 for UF men’s programs for the fall term is men’s swimming & diving and football – a first for football. Gymnastics turned in the top term GPA (3.76) for the women’s teams for the third consecutive semester.
 
The fall 2025 team leaders also topped the fall 2024 and spring 2025 rankings to earn the cumulative high:
Men:         Cross Country (3.55 cumulative)
Women:  Gymnastics (3.72 cumulative)
 
UF Student-Athlete Fall 2025 Semester Highlights

• 18 programs earned a 3.0 or better fall semester GPA
• Overall Male Term GPA – 3.31
• Overall Male Cumulative GPA – 3.31
• Overall Female Term GPA – 3.48
• Overall Female Cumulative GPA – 3.49 (Record)
• 4.0 fall 2025 GPA by 50 student-athletes

 
 

The college volleyball offseason has only just officially begun, but moves are already being made.

Kentucky head coach Craig Skinner kicked things off by signing an All-American honorable mention for next season’s group. UK announced the addition of Notre Dame outside hitter Morgan Gaerte through the transfer portal on Wednesday morning. A 6-foot-5 native of Indiana, Gaerte was named a 2025 AVCA All-American Honorable Mention and a First Team All-ACC performer. She’ll help ease the loss of Eva Hudson — the lone senior on Kentucky’s national runner-up team this past season — on the outside.

Gaerte, who will have two years of eligibility remaining with the Wildcats, set a Notre Dame record last season with 4.64 kills per set (13th nationally). She’ll be expected to play on the opposite side of All-American outside hitter Brooklyn DeLeye for the ‘Cats in 2026. Skinner is already reloading.

Gaerte was a rare star for Notre Dame volleyball. A team captain, she started all 28 matches in 2025 as a sophomore for the Fighting Irish, finishing the year with 497 kills, the third-most ever in a season in Notre Dame history and the most since Christy Peters in 1997. Her First Team All-ACC nod was the first by a Notre Dame player since 2020. She reached 20 or more kills in 11 matches, also a program record for one season.

But where the transfer portal can give, it can also take. Kentucky lost a piece of this past season’s roster when redshirt sophomore middle blocker Brooke Bultema announced on Wednesday her intentions to transfer out of Lexington. After a redshirt freshman campaign in 2024 that saw her named to the SEC All-Freshman Team, Bultema did not see as much playing time in 2025 as she would have hoped for.

She likely won’t be the last outgoing transfer for Kentucky, either. Skinner is expected to return eight of his top nine rotation players from last season (barring an unexpected transfer), with the only departure being Hudson to graduation. And now that Gaerte is in the fold, the top half of the roster is in good shape once again. Don’t be shocked if other current Wildcats deeper on the bench elect to look elsewhere in the coming days/weeks.

Skinner shows love to the BBN

Coming off a disappointing loss in the national championship match to Texas A&M, Craig Skinner reminded us all how truly magical the 2025 campaign still was. Kentucky won its ninth straight SEC Championship, won the SEC Tournament, finished with 30 wins on the season, and went perfect (15-0) during conference play. UK made just the program’s second-ever national title match and first since winning it all in 2020 along the way.

Skinner sent out a few social media posts on Wednesday morning, thanking the Big Blue Nation for all their support throughout the season. He says over 38,000 total fans showed up to home matches inside Memorial Coliseum in 2025, where the ‘Cats did not drop a single match.

Man. What a ride!
This team rejuvenated my fire for coaching and my love for this incredible fan base.
Over 38,000 of you came through the turnstiles at HMC and led us to an undefeated home record and a Lexington Regional Championship! pic.twitter.com/Xw7aBDBN4E

— Craig Skinner (@UKCoachSkinner) December 24, 2025

Let’s run it back in 2026, shall we?

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Wellsboro junior Madison Cruttenden was recently named to the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association’s, PVCA, Class 2A All-State team.

Cruttenden was one of three NTL and District IV volleyballers (Aryana Andrus and Alli Bailey from Troy) to make the team.

Cruttenden received 536 serves, made 37 assists and had 341 digs this season. She also scored 163 points to go along with 54 aces.

Over the course of her career she has made 1,197 receptions, 56 assists, 784 digs, 407 points (112 aces) and 6 kills.

“This is a well-deserved honor for Maddy,” head coach Darci Pollock said. “She has been a consistent back row player for us the past two seasons. She continues to work hard in the off season. I’m very proud of her work ethic and dedication to the team!”

Cruttenden is the ninth Wellsboro player to earn a spot on the PCVA All-State team. Cruttenden joins Carrie Gorda, Rachel Patt, Hannah Zuchowski, Kirsten Florio, Caitlyn Callahan, Megan Starkweather, Paige Logsdon and Lexi Urena.