{"id":1588,"date":"2015-10-02T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:08:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T02:08:43","slug":"womens-volleyball-update-starting-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/womens-volleyball-update-starting-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s volleyball update: starting from scratch."},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By:\u00a0Grace Knapp\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>Composed of mostly underclassmen and completely devoid of seniors, the new-look Wolves volleyball team faces an uphill battle in the highly competitive GNAC conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our overall lack of experience, we get exposed during games,\u201d head coach Brad Saindon said. \u201cBut the team is at the beginning of a huge growth spurt, and I\u2019m excited to see what we can become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the run up to the regular season, the women hosted the Western Oregon Volleyball Invitational tournament from Sept. 10, 2015 through Sept. 12, 2015. WOU played to mixed results racking up 2 wins against Adelphi University and Notre Dame De Namur University, and 2 losses against California State University Chico and University of Wisconsin-Parkside.<\/p>\n<p>Western also attended the two-day Oredigger Volleyball Classic in Golden, Co. from Sept. 4, 2015 through Sept. 5 2015 to less success, losing all four games. Two of these games, however, were against Colorado School of Mines and California State University San Bernardino who are ranked #8 and #19 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves who are currently 4 wins and 9 losses (4-9) overall and 1-3 in conference will face the defending GNAC champion Northwest Nazarene University at home at 7 p.m. Oct. 3, 2015 in the New P.E. building. NNU is currently 5-7 overall and 2-2 in GNAC. \u2013 Grace Knapp (Staff Writer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composed of mostly underclassmen and completely devoid of seniors, the new-look Wolves volleyball team faces an uphill battle in the highly competitive GNAC conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":1596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}