Arizona volleyball’s youth facing huge test as senior leader Paige Whipple battles injury
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The Arizona Wildcats volleyball team entered the season with two seniors. One was a grad transfer brought in to back up the freshman setter. The other was outside hitter
Paige Whipple. For at least the next week, that number has been reduced to just one.
After playing in last Friday’s match against the Oregon Ducks, Whipple sustained a back injury that kept her out of Sunday’s match. It was tough for the Oregon native to sit out what could be her last chance to play in her home state. It was doubly as tough for her team.
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Sofía Maldonado Diaz is taking Pac-12 volleyball by storm.
The Arizona freshman was named the conference’s newcomer of the week after posting historic numbers against No. 11 Washington. Her 25.
Arizona volleyball’s Sofia Maldonado Diaz named Pac-12 Freshman of the Week
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Sofia Maldonado Diaz may have been a little under the radar as a recruit. The fact that U.S. volleyball coaches got to see her so rarely had a lot to do with that. She’s certainly making an impact for the Arizona Wildcats in her first season, though, including being named the
Arizona head coach
Dave Rubio said that he first saw his emerging star at the SCVA Las Vegas Classic when she was a high school sophomore. By the time she was a senior Chris Tobolski of Volleyball Mag
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