• Tennessee student-athletes picked up two awards at the Volscars: Ellen Mullins won for Best Supporting Role, and Stephanie Stoll for Inspirational Student-Athletes Of Year. Kayla Jeter was nominated for the Ms. Tennessee honor. The UT Volleyball Twitter account has photos.
• The Knoxville News-Sentinel’s Tennessee sports site looks at how the athletic teams are doing this year based on the Director’s Cup standings — which ranks schools based on how all their teams perform on the field. UT ranked 111th after the fall. Volleyball was one of only two sports Tennessee received points in the standings for in the fall. But that ranking is expected to rise with the spring sports.
• A few years ago I posted some pictures of my daughter’s very first volleyball match when she was in third grade. My son is in third grade now and is trying out volleyball too! Unfortunately he was the only boy to sign up. He’s liking it well enough, but with no other boys around I’m not sure he’ll stick with it after this season. But either way we’re proud of him for trying it and staying with it even when he found out he would have to play with the girls. Here’s his first gameday.