After opening the season with a victory over West Virginia Tech at the Davis & Elkins tournament on Friday morning, the Wesleyan volleyball team closed out the rest of the weekend with a 1-2 record. The Bobcats lost to Texas A&M-Kingsville on Friday afternoon before splitting against Ohio Valley and Indiana (PA) on Saturday.

Against Texas A&M-Kingsville, the Bobcats dropped a tight match in five games. After losing the first two games 25-15 and 25-19, the team came back ... [read more]

The Wesleyan volleyball team started their season this Friday at the Davis and Elkins Tournament. The Bocats won their first match against West Virginia Tech in impressive fashion by a final count of 3-0 (25-13, 25-11, and 25-17).

Outstanding performances in kills were seen by both outside hitters Jess Pattyn (pictured) and Blake Saumell. Pattyn had a game high of eight kills with Saumell close behind with seven.

Hayley Barhorst also led the way with 29 assi... [read more]

The Wesleyan volleyball team is excited to kick off the 2010 season under head coach Jackie Murphy (pictured). Now with Murphy’s first year as head coach under her belt she is excited to push the team to excel even further. She has made a lot of additions and changes to the team this year. With only ten returning players Murphy has added much needed depth to the team. She has recruited ten freshman and two transfer students who will be joining the Bobcats this fall.

O... [read more]

Wheeling Jesuit is the overwhelming favorite to claim the school's ninth WVIAC volleyball regular season title since 1999. WJU, owners of a 167-7 record in conference play in the past eleven seasons, received 13 of 14 first place votes to easily outdistance second-place Alderson-Broaddus in the league's annual preseason coaches' poll.

Third place Charleston received the lone first place vote that didn't go to Wheeling Jesuit. Shepherd, West Virginia State, and West Vir... [read more]

With Casey Pattyn already on board for 2010, head volleyball coach Jackie Murphy announced the addition of seven new members to this year’s recruiting class. The newest additions include Taelor Curry, Demi Glover, Jenna Hrycyk, Camblin Leonard, Paula Renteria, Brook Ware and Korin Wengryn.

Curry, a middle blocker from Lewisburg, WV played in 274 games during her high school career, tallying 478 kills and 257.5 blocks. For her career at Greenbrier East High School, Curr... [read more]

With the 2009 season in the rearview mirror, head volleyball coach Jackie Murphy has turned her attention to the future of the program, beginning with the 2010 recruiting class.

The first player to join the program by signing a National Letter of Intent is setter and defensive specialist Casey Pattyn (pictured-Red, #20). Pattyn, a native of Moon Township, PA, will join older sister Jessica Pattyn as a member of the Lady Bobcats.

While attending Moon Area High S... [read more]

West Virginia Wesleyan’s Jessica Pattyn (pictured right) and Hayley Barhorst (pictured below) were recently selected to the 2009 All-WVIAC Volleyball team.

Pattyn, a sophomore outside hitter from Moon Township, PA, was named to the second team while Barhorst, a junior setter from Ft. Loramie, OH, was named to the honorable mention squad.

Pattyn recorded a team high 250 kills and 234 digs. She also added 30 blocks and 15 assists.

Barhorst paced th... [read more]

The West Virginia Wesleyan volleyball team was stunned by an upset loss to West Liberty in the first-round of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament Thursday morning at the Charleston Catholic Sports Complex.

The fifth-seeded Lady ‘Cats fell to the 12th-seeded Lady Hilltoppers in five sets -- 25-22, 25-18, 12-25, 16-25, 15-9.

The upset marked only the second time in conference history that a No. 12 seed beat a No. 5 seed in the first-ro... [read more]

Head coach Jackie Murphy (pictured) and the Wesleyan volleyball team wrapped up their regular season last week and head into this weekend's West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) tournament as the fifth seed.

The Lady Bobcats will travel to Charleston, WV to take on 12th seeded West Liberty in the first round at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday. Wesleyan enters the match with a record of 11-14 overall and 9-5 in the conference while West Liberty holds a record ... [read more]

It was the one that got away for head coach Jackie Murphy and her West Virginia Wesleyan Lady Bobcat volleyball team Wednesday night in their regular-season finale against the visiting West Virginia State Yellow Jackets.

The Lady ‘Cats dropped their season-finale by a 3-2 score.

Wesleyan lost the first set by a 25-18 score but rebounded to win the second set, 25-22, and the third set, 25-21. West Virginia State came back to take the fourth set, 25-20, and won the... [read more]

Each week, the Wesleyan Sports Information staff will sit down with a different featured athlete for a question and answer session.

This week's featured athlete is junior volleyball player Blake Saumell. Saumell, a native of Weston, FL, is a three year contributor for the Lady Bobcats. On the season, she has appeared in 77 games in 24 matches while tallying 181 kills, eight assists, 13 service aces, 189 digs and eight blocks.

Over Saumell's three years on the vo... [read more]

The West Virginia Wesleyan volleyball team ran their winning streak to four games on Senior Night with a 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-18) victory over the Ohio Valley Fighting Scots Wednesday night in a WVIAC contest at Rockefeller Arena.

While the head coach Jackie Murphy and her Lady ‘Cats will take the victory, it was hardly the dominating performance they were hoping for against 2-26 Fighting Scots.

On a night when Wesleyan honored their two seniors, Lauren Hametz (... [read more]

The Wesleyan volleyball team traveled south on Saturday for a pair of West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic (WVIAC) matches against Concord and Bluefield.

In the early match at Concord, the Lady Bobcats sprinted out to 2-0 set lead before prevailing 3-1 (25-22, 25-14, 21-25, 25-16).

Blake Saumell (pictured) led the offensive attack with 13 kills and a .423 hitting percentage. Hayley Barhorst recorded a team high 41 assists while Saumell and Ashley Ziegle ancho... [read more]

The West Virginia Wesleyan Lady Bobcats ended their three-game losing streak in style with an impressive 3-1 victory over the University of Charleston Golden Eagles Friday night in Rockefeller Center during Wesleyan’s Homecoming weekend.

The Golden Eagles were unbeaten in WVIAC action and rested in second place, but the Lady Bobcats sent Charleston back home with a loss. They dropped the first set by a 25-15 score but roared back to win the next three sets 25-23, 25-15, an... [read more]

If a Homecoming match against conference rival Charleston was not motivation enough, the Wesleyan volleyball team will also be holding their annual "Dig Pink" match on Friday night.

The "Dig Pink" match against Charleston is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in Rockefeller Arena and will dedicated to breast cancer awareness.

Head coach Jackie Murphy (pictured) and the Lady Bobcats are asking everyone to come out and the support fight against breast cancer by donating ... [read more]