A great year and tremendous coverage: Best NCAA volleyball stories from 2023

There has never been a season like it.

NCAA women’s volleyball attendance and TV ratings were broken seemingly every day. The competition was fantastic and interest has never been higher. Here at VolleyballMag, we have shattered our previous best page-views record and NCAA women’s volleyball was a huge part of that accomplishment.

Here’s a chronological look back at 2023 and our top NCAA women’s posts. Click on any highlighted link to read that story from a year that amazed us throughout.

There was tremendous interest in two interviews we did with retiring coaches, Joe Sagula of North Carolina and Dave Rubio of Arizona. The veteran stalwarts of our sport had a lot to say about their jobs and how much college volleyball has changed:

One of our most viewed posts was Lincoln Arneal’s February Q&A with Nebraska coach John Cook: 

Speaking of Nebraska, this was a big story in February when Nebraska announced it would play a match in its football stadium. There were, of course, more stories to come about that event:

This story the day before the match was a big hit:

And then Nebraska played Omaha before 92,003. Arneal covered it and Matt Smith had some great photos:

Two stories that went up three days apart were quite significant. The…