JERSEY CITY, NJ…Rivier College (27-1) is the #1 ranked team in the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association for the sixth consecutive week. Winners of 24 in a row, the Raiders received all 10 first place votes.
The NECVA will release its weekly poll every Tuesday leading up to the conference championship, April 3-5, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Rockwell Cage in Cambridge, MA.
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RK
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AVCA
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TEAM (#1 VOTES)
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2009 RECORD
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TOTAL PTS
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PREVIOUS RK
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PREVIOUS PTS
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1
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3
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Rivier College (10)
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27-1
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100
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1
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99
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2
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5
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Nazareth College
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23-4
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85
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2
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83
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3
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7
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Ramapo College
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23-5
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79
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3
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77
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4
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6
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Stevens
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17-6
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75
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4
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76
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5
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8
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Vassar College
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16-5
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61
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5
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63
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6
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9
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Philadelphia Biblical
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17-10
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48
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6
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45
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7
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13
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Endicott College
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19-9
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27
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8
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26
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8
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11
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Eastern Mennonite
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14-15
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24
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9
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21
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9
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15
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Newbury College
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20-10
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13
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7
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28
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10t
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SUNY New Paltz
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21-11
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11
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10
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10
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10t
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MIT
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25-11
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11
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RV
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9
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Dropped Out: None
Also Receiving Votes: Baruch College (30-9), 10; Elms College (15-12), 5; Emmanuel College (16-11), 1.
Note: Points represent total out of 10. A team voted No. 1 on a ballot receives 10 points, No. 2 receives 9 points, No. 3 receives 8 points, and so forth. All records are for matches played through March 22.
ABOUT THE NECVA:
The North East Collegiate Volleyball Association, the largest known single-sport conference in the United States, is in its 15th year of competition during the 2009 season as a leading Division III men’s volleyball conference. Founded in 1995 as the Metro Conference, it became known as the NECVA in 1998. Currently comprised of 43 colleges and universities stretching from New Hampshire to Virginia, Albertus Magnus College, Daniel Webster College, Emerson College and St. Joseph’s College (Brooklyn) joined the conference for the 2009 campaign.
The league is divided into five smaller divisions: CUNY (8), GNAC (7), Metro (10), New England (8), and Western (9) with one associate member. Each week, schools from the five divisions nominate athletes and then vote for the divisional Player and Rookie of the Week awards. The conference sports information office then selects the NECVA Player and Rookie honors from each of these five divisional winners.
The NECVA holds an annual 16-team conference tournament each April with the top two schools in each division and six at-large selections earning berths. The NECVA champion receives one of four automatic bids to the Molten Division III Final Four in April.
2009 POLL VOTERS:
Tim Byram, Endicott College (NE Division); Joseph DeBenedictis, Hunter College (CUNYAC Division); Paul Dill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NE Division); Patrick Dorywalski, Stevens Institute of Technology (Metro Division); Bill Gorman, Wentworth Institute of Technology (NE Division); Keith Koch, Medaille College (Western Division); Craig Kolek, Rivier College (GNAC Division); John Neves; Baruch College (CUNYAC Division); Mike Spinner, Yeshiva University (Metro Division); Ira Thor, NECVA Sports Information Director/New Jersey City University; Don Vanderbeck, Ramapo College (At-large voter); Cal Wickens, Nazareth College (Western Division); Chris Wright, Emmanuel College (GNAC Division).