Men’s volleyball: ‘Thank you’

Club team’s first game in the Vines Center brings more than 2,000 guests

Liberty University’s club men’s volleyball team thanks its fellow students for the overwhelming response to the team’s recent Spike at Midnight event.

The chance to play a game in Vines Center has long been a dream for the team who, at 16-3 and with the postseason approaching, is playing back-to-back historic seasons.

With last year’s promotion to National Collegiate Volleyball Federation Division I-A play, the team’s first ever national ranking and Head Coach Bryan Rigg named Club Sports Coach of the Year, men’s volleyball went into this season hoping to share their success with the
student body.

“To gain 10 or 20 more fans at our games through this midnight game would just be huge for us,” opposite hitter Kevin Snyder said before the game.

Instead, an overwhelming 2,700 Liberty students flooded the Vines Center Jan. 31 to cheer on the team. While the team may not have gotten the win in a tight game versus Rutgers, all of us involved with the program know the support of their fellow students was the ultimate win for the Flames.

Thank you for supporting men’s volleyball, and we hope you continue to do so. As we pursue the program’s first national championship, we are thankful to already claim the most important title of all — best fans in the league.

Liberty men’s club volleyball program contributed this letter.