Graduation in the Rain

 I can't remember the last time it actually full on rained during graduation.  There have been years where it sprinkled, or rained before or after, but a downpour during...I don't think it's ever happened in my years...until this year.  Sorry guys!! 

As such, I missed seeing each of our seniors right afterward, but I did catch Ava and Kevin but had to get Lil and Cam to send me graduation pictures--Lilian...still waiting! :)  

Nevertheless, it may be the end of their MIDD years as a student for these three, BUT the beginning of their years as alums!!  Once a Panther, always a Panther!!  MCVB is family for LIFE.

Both Ava and Lilian were Econ Majors, and both were Magna Cum Laude!!  Campbell was a Film and Media Culture Major with a Music minor.

CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS!!  We'll miss you and hope to keep tabs on your bright futures and fun adventures to come!!

Senior Awards Ceremony

Every year each Department holds their own specific Awards Ceremony.  For MIDD ATHLETICS, this is quite an impressive day to hear and recount the many achievements of so many of our athletes.  CONGRATULATIONS to our three special seniors on fantastic careers as both students and athletes!  

WELL DONE, Campbell, Ava and Lillian!!  We'll miss you!!

Panther Profile: Campbell Keller '26

Our very own, very accomplished and versatile Campbell Keller was the feature of the recent Panther Profile.  She talks about her involvement with the HS Volleyball Team and the Middlebury College Musical Theater Club where she's appeared and starred in different productions including Grease, Urinetown, and Mean Girls.  Here's a link to the full video:   Panther Profile - Campbell Keller - Middlebury College  

We're so proud of you, Campbell.  You are the epitome of Division III student-athlete excellence with community outreach and service, scholarship, varsity athletic leadership and on-campus musical theater and other musical contributions on campus.  Talented and balanced...thanks for committing to the full MIDD experience, AND helping us win our 6th Program NESCAC CHAMPIONSHIP.  WE'LL MISS YOU!!  

Molly and Ava are CSC Academic All-District!

CSC Academic All-District:  Both Molly and Ava were tabbed for the CSC Academic All-District Team, which is a very nice honor.  Getting it done on the court AND in the classroom!  CONGRATS!

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.