MCVB Banquet 2025

We recently celebrated our Season with our annual banquet.  We had brunch at Fire & Ice Restaurant before finals week set in!

We celebrated all of the accolades that players had accumulated over the season (highlighted in previous post) as well as the Team 
Awards that we vote on after the season.  

Our team Awards this year were the following:

Panther Pride (Best Teammate)--Lillian

Yellow Jersey (Consistent Effort)--Kinaree

MCVB Spirit (Positive Attitude/Spirit)--Lillian and Molly

Additionally, all freshmen are awarded their Varsity M:

Then, we took class photos:  Seniors, Juniors, and then sophomores: 

Thank you all for a wonderful season and lots of fun memories.  Looking forward to Spring practices and getting updates from the Juniors who will all be abroad!!  Happy Holidays!

Post Season Honors

 It was another successful season here with MCVB, and we have a lot of honors to showcase, both from the NESCAC and the AVCA.  

Molly Harrison was honored with the following awards:

NESCAC 1st Team

AVCA All-Region 1st Team

AVCA All-American (Honorable Mention)

NESCAC All-Academic

Lillian Caldwell had the following awards:

NESCAC All-Sportsmanship

NESCAC All-Academic

The rest of these players were also named to the NESCAC All-Academic Team:

Campbell Bartley                    Devin McCormack

Lauren Baxter                         Gabby Pribisich

Caroline Byrne                        Annabella Rando

Sophie Horn                            Ava Tuccio

Campbell Keller

CONGRATULATIONS to ALL!!  I especially love to see most of our eligible team members receiving All-Academic Honors.  Great work both on the court and in the classroom.  

Season Ends in NESCAC Quarterfinals

MCVB 2025 ended up with a 6-4 Conference record, tied for 5th with Bowdoin.  Since they won the head-to-head, we ended with the 6th seed.  All things being equal, we liked our seed as we were matched up with Williams, who we'd beaten earlier in the year in a 5-set battle.  It also happens to be the shortest trip in Conference, so that was also a bonus.

We traveled down on the Saturday late morning for our 3pm match time.  It was another battle, but we couldn't quite extend it to a fifth set this time, unfortunately.  After losing the first two sets 22-25 behind sub-par hitting %'s, we finally got some offense going to take the 3rd set 25-20 and it was our only set to hit over .200 for the match.

We battled but couldn't seem to string together the points when we needed them.  We had a decent lead in the 4th, but they strung together points when they needed to pull ahead and take the final set 22-25 again.  We've been on the other end of that with other teams and it's an intangible asset to score those important points at the times when you need them to close out a set or a match.  Hats off to them as they outplayed us this time around, but I was proud of our team for battling. 

We'll have Spring practices to continue our work, and we hope our juniors all enjoy their time abroad this Spring!  Thanks for a great season of fun memories, good times, and competitive volleyball.  Despite our 13-12 record, we played probably the toughest schedule we've maybe ever played.  Of our 12 losses, 11 of them qualified for the NCAA tournament, so that's pretty impressive and speaks to the level of competition in our schedule, both in and out of Conference.

Molly Surpasses 1000 Kills

Molly Harrison became the 7th player in MCVB History to surpass 1000 Kills.  She did this on Oct. 31, 2025 within the first few minutes of the Amherst match on senior night.  She only needed 4 kills to go over 1000, and got her 4th kill less than 10 minutes into the match on Halloween night!

She's in very good company on that list, following behind our only MIDD Hall of Fame honoree (Leslie Edwards '00), and a NESCAC ROY (Megan Jarchow '13), a NESCAC ROY/POY (Jane Handel '11), and three  AVCA All-Region honorees (Lexie Fisher '07, Becca Raffel '17, and Isabel Sessions '18).  These are some of the storied names in MCVB offensive history for sure, and Molly has a full season yet to play, which is exciting! 

It's a great honor and we're hoping she adds a lot of kills to the final tally before her time is done here at MIDD!  Congratulations on the nice milestone, Molly!

Senior Day/Weekend Wins

What a capstone weekend for our seniors!  After a very tough schedule, and mostly on the road, we finished off our regular season with two matches at home against Amherst and Hamilton.  Senior Day was designated as Friday night, and all three seniors stepped up! 

 Ava hit .500 with 5 kills, 1 error on 8 swings with 3 blocks to go along with that stat line.  Lillian had a season best 11 kills with only 3 errors on 24 swings for a .333 hitting %.  Campbell had a service ace to go along with 5 digs and 1 kill in the 3 set match.

These three have all been Academic All-NESCAC each year and their respective teams have been honored by the AVCA as Team Academic Award winners every year.  

Congratulations to you three--we'll certainly miss you and hope we get more time to compete with you over the next couple of weeks!!

Alumni Weekend

 

Alumni Weekend 2025 was another success!  It was a smaller turnout this year, but still oh so much fun!!  We LOVE having our former players return to campus and it's always great to see them back on the court for the Alumni Game.  Let me say it, they still got it going on!!  

We faced two tough opponents in Bowdoin and Colby and unfortunately didn't come away with a win this weekend, but we fought hard and had fun catching up with these amazing alums!

Corley, Claire, Lucy, Shea, Britt, Kelly and Jane--thank you so much for coming back and for all of your support of our Program.  MCVB really is a family for LIFE!!  Thanks for everything and good luck with your many adventures!

Birthday Boys

I guess we have fewer player birthdays during the season now, but two of our Coaches had Fall Birthdays so far!!  Assistant Coach Brian's birthday is Sept. 29th, and Our Student Assistant, Spencer had a birthday on Oct. 7th.

They both bring so much to our team, and we all like to share in the celebration of someone's special day...whether it's the singing or the cupcake eating, here's hoping they both had special birthdays!!