Women's volleyball / Anderson Haigler

Upcoming Season For Volleyball "As Real As It Gets"

As her players arrange themselves for the photo, Jennifer Petrie can't help but laugh. In full uniform, with the Pacific Ocean at their backs on a picture-perfect San Diego afternoon ahead of their annual beach photoshoot, her Torero volleyball team is jockeying for position atop a park bench overlooking Sunset Cliffs, and time is running out. Sophomore defensive specialist Anna Jaworowski has two minutes and counting to get a picture for the popular app "BeReal," which prompts users at random each day to take a picture of what they're doing to…well, be more real, and the veteran head coach has been entrusted to get one that has the entire team in it. As the clock winds down, Petrie snaps the photo, delighting her 18 scholar-athletes when her smiling face fills the selfie camera's section of the digital keepsake. These days, there's a lot to smile about for San Diego volleyball.

University of San Diego Athletics • October 28, 2022

A Volleyball Duo For The Ages

Thirty-one matches was enough for a lot of things to happen in 2018. It was enough for San Diego volleyball to notch 18 wins — three against ranked teams — and reach the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 in one of USD's most accomplished seasons to date. A timeframe substantial enough for then-freshmen Annie Benbow and Katie Lukes to combine for nearly 200 digs and 230 kills as they got their college careers underway in impressive fashion, setting parallel paths of success into motion. Nearly five years later, however, Benbow is quick to point out what didn't immediately crystallize during those 31 contests.

We Are San Diego: Volleyball Ready to Run It Back

Like most things in life, conceptualizing the last year and a half for San Diego women's volleyball takes a healthy dose of perspective. View the span from one angle, one that considers the team's dominant run through West Coast Conference play and postseason success, and it might seem as if it's been business as usual in Alcala Park for the Toreros."I think at the time, looking back on it now we were just so grateful to be competing and playing at all that it didn't matter what the length (of t

NCAA Tournament preview

No. 20 USD will travel to Honolulu, Hawaii to take on No. 25 WSU in the first round Ask nearly any college sports team what their collective goal is for the season, and they’re likely to tell you that they want to play in the postseason. A college basketball player would probably say they aspire to play in March Madness Tournament, a college baseball player — a berth to Omaha, and a football player might have ambitions of playing in a playoff or bowl game. The University of San Diego women’s v

Toreros nearly upset Huskers

No. 25 USD volleyball comes within three points of upsetting No. 2 Nebraska In taking on the No. 2 team in the nation, many women’s volleyball programs would be satisfied with a close match. Perhaps content to simply hang with a top-ranked opponent, make the contest competitive, and have a good showing in front of a packed crowd. The 25th-ranked Toreros did all of that last Saturday night in the Jenny Craig Pavilion against No. 2 University of Nebraska, but they likely weren’t satisfied. Thoug

USD volleyball falls to No. 1 BYU

It was a battle of two West Coast Conference women’s volleyball powerhouses. At one end of the court stood the top-ranked Brigham Young University Cougars. At the other were the young but surging Toreros, who had won each of their last four WCC matches. The Jenny Craig Pavilion (JCP) was packed, the Bull Pit was alive, and the stage was set for USD to take on their fourth-ranked opponent of the season, this time going toe-to-toe with

Toreros sweep WCC weekend

USD volleyball beats both Portland and Gonzaga in straight sets to extend WCC winning streak to three As the Toreros made their way through one of the nation’s tougher non-conference women’s volleyball schedules earlier this season, USD women’s volleyball head coach Jennifer Petrie stressed the value of games against difficult opponents prior to conference play. “We could’ve had a really easy schedule and had a lot more wins, but at the end of the day if you want to be one of the best in the c

Volleyball opens WCC play

It’s been a tale of two teams for the Toreros thus far. On one hand, there’s the squad that struggles to pull away from opponents and suffers heartbreaking losses in five sets. On the other, a team that cruises to victory over West Coast Conference (WCC) opponents in straight sets. While the former has been the reality more often than not this season, as the Toreros are 0-4 in five set matches, the lat

USD volleyball drops two of three on weekend

The opponent awaiting USD in the Jenny Craig Pavilion was a familiar one. The Toreros (3-6) had tangled with the Trojans (8-3) before, most recently when they ended their 2017-2018 season with a five-set loss to the University of Southern California (USC) in the second round of the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament. The match, which marked the conclusion of a dominant season for then-ninth ranked USD, wa

Volleyball splits with Tennessee

The University of San Diego women’s volleyball team showed flashes of brilliance last weekend. At times, they looked every bit the part of a team that was ranked 16th in the nation. However, as the weekend went on, the Toreros demonstrated that they may have work to do should they hope to continue the success that is expected of USD both inside and out of the program. After cruising to a victory in straight sets