Volleyball ends 2020-21 season ranked No. 19 in final AVCA poll
By Tim Glon
| 2020 AVCA Coaches Poll - Final |
ADA — The Ohio Northern volleyball team finished the 2020-21 season ranked No. 19 nationally in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association Poll on Wednesday.
The Polar Bears received 224 points in the poll.
Ohio Northern was ranked No. 6 in the first weekly poll, was No. 22 in week four and was No. 24 in week six. ONU was unranked in weeks two, three and five.
Colorado College ended the season ranked No. 1 with 775 points and all 31 first place votes, Trinity (Tex.) is second with 741 points and Carthage (Wis.) is third with 711 points.
The Polar Bears finished the season 13-3 overall and were third in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 13-3 mark under first-year head coach Katie Kuhn.
AVCA Coaches Poll - Final
Apr. 28, 2021
Rank |
School (First Place Votes) | Total Points |
Last Week |
Last Week |
1. | Colorado College (31) | 775 | 16-0 | 1 |
2. | Trinity (Tex.) | 741 | 13-2 | 2 |
3. | Carthage (Wis.) | 711 | 11-2 | 3 |
4. | Mary Hardin-Baylor (Tex.) | 668 | 16-2 | 4 |
5. | Texas-Dallas | 644 | 15-1 | 5 |
6. | Millikin (Ill.) | 595 | 7-3 | 7 |
7. | Elmhurst (Ill.) | 561 | 8-2 | 8 |
8. | Berry (Ga.) | 534 | 9-1 | 9 |
9. | Hope (Mich.) | 496 | 9-1 | 16 |
10. | Calvin (Mich.) | 481 | 9-1 | 6 |
11. | Transylvania (Ky.) | 452 | 15-3 | 10 |
12. | Northwestern (Minn.) | 433 | 24-5 | 11 |
13. | Otterbein | 405 | 18-3 | 12 |
14. | Birmingham Southern | 373 | 10-2 | 13 |
15. | Coe (Iowa) | 328 | 7-1 | 14 |
16. | Muskingum | 309 | 18-3 | 15 |
17. | Whitworth (Wash.) | 266 | 10-2 | 18 |
18. | Aurora (Ill.) | 244 | 8-1 | 19 |
19. | Ohio Northern | 224 | 13-3 | 17 |
20. | Stockton (Calif.) | 185 | 7-0 | 20 |
21. | Cornell (Iowa) | 148 | 4-1 | 22 |
22. | Greenville (Ill.) | 130 | 18-2 | 21 |
Washington & Lee (Va.) | 130 | 13-0 | 23 | |
24. | Mount Saint Joseph | 65 | 13-5 | 24 |
25. | Maryville (Mo.) | 42 | 16-1 | NR |
Others receiving votes and listed on two or more ballots: Westminster (Mo.) 27; Wartburg 25; St John Fisher 20; Carnegie-Mellon 15; Illinois Wesleyan 15; Baldwin-Wallace 12; Westminster (Penn.) 11; Montclair State 7