Volleyball moves up to No. 17 in fifth weekly AVCA poll
By Tim Glon
| AVCA Poll |
ADA — The Ohio Northern volleyball team moved up two more spots to No. 17 in the fifth weekly American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, released Tuesday afternoon.
The Polar Bears (16-3 overall, 1-0 Ohio Athletic Conference) received 519 points in the poll, which is 72 more than the 447 they received last week when ranked No. 19.
Northern it tied for 17th in the poll with Saint thomas (Minn.) and MIT.
ONU was ranked No. 22 in the preseason poll, was No. 25 in the first weekly poll and No. 22 in the third and fourth weekly polls the past two weeks.
Ohio Northern went 2-0 last week with a sweep at Denison and a sweep of Mount Union in the OAC opener.
Wittenberg stayed in the top spot in the poll with 1,656 points and 48 first place votes, Colorado College is second with 1,622 points and the remaining 19 first place votes and Trinity (Tex.) is third with 1,458 points.
The Polar Bears will return to action on Wednesday with a 7 pm match at home with Otterbein, who received 23 points in the poll, at the ONU Sports Center.
AVCA Poll #5 - Oct. 3, 2017
| Rank | School (First Place Votes) | Points | 2017 Record |
Last Week |
| 1. | Wittenberg (58) | 1656 | 13-0 | 1 |
| 2. | Colorado College (8) | 1622 | 18-0 | 2 |
| 3. | Trinity (Tex.) | 1458 | 16-3 | 4 |
| 4. | Emory (Ga.) | 1370 | 14-2 | 3 |
| 5. | Southwestern (Tex.) | 1340 | 17-3 | 5 |
| 6. | Calvin (Mich.) | 1289 | 11-3 | 6 |
| 7. | Northwestern (Minn.) | 1197 | 19-3 | 8 |
| 8. | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Cal.) | 1141 | 11-5 | 9 |
| 9. | Wisconsin-Whitewater | 1101 | 12-3 | 7 |
| 10. | Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) | 922 | 18-1 | 10 |
| 11. | Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.) | 898 | 15-3 | 11 |
| 12. | Juniata (Pa.) | 779 | 12-4 | 13 |
| 13. | Illinois Wesleyan | 716 | 12-4 | 16 |
| 14. | La Verne (Cal.) | 673 | 12-2 | 15 |
| 15. | Millikin (Ill.) | 599 | 12-4 | 12 |
| 16. | Chicago (Ill.) | 579 | 15-3 | 25 |
| 17. | Ohio Northern | 519 | 16-3 | 19 |
| MIT | 519 | 17-1 | 14 | |
| Saint Thomas (Minn.) | 519 | 15-3 | 17 | |
| 20. | Johnson & Wales (R.I.) | 405 | 16-0 | NR |
| 21. | Washington (Mo.) | 373 | 10-6 | 18 |
| 22. | Texas-Dallas | 332 | 12-4 | 20 |
| 23. | Johns Hopkins (Md.) | 322 | 13-2 | 24 |
| 24. | Christopher Newport (Va.) | 308 | 15-3 | 22 |
| 25. | Hope (Mich.) | 238 | 10-5 | 21 |
Others receiving votes: Wisconsin-Stevens Point 210; Wesleyan (Conn.) 85; Cornell (Iowa) 57; Pacific Lutheran 50; Bethel (Minn.) 49; Stevenson 49; Dubuque 46; Aurora 45; Randolph-Macon 40; Berry 39; Cal Lutheran 39; Scranton 29; Otterbein 23; Wisconsin-La Crosse 20; DePauw 17; Case Western 16; Mary Hardin-Baylor 14; Tufts 12; Baldwin-Wallace 10; Whittier 6; Wisconsin-Oshkosh 5; Muhlenberg 3; Wartburg 2.