NCAA D1 Women’s Volleyball Championship Selection Released

Kaiya Ramos, Student Journalist

December 12, 2024

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KFC YUM! CENTER – On December 1, NCAA Division One Women’s Volleyball committee released the brackets for the 2024 college volleyball championship. Sixty-four teams are in the tournament every year, thirty-three of them are filled by at-large selection but the rest are filled automatically by thirty-one conferences.

The top seeds of the tournament are Pitt, Nebraska, Louisville, and Penn State. Pitt claimed the one seed by finishing the season 29-1, the best record in D1. Nebraska and Penn State finished with the record 29-2 while Louisville finished 25-5.

Along with the last two years, this year is no different and the top thirty-two teams were seeded nationally in four separate groups/regions. Also, the top seeds are offered the option to host and pairings are pre-determined within the groups, (1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5) although teams from the same conference cannot be paired together throughout the first and second rounds, and that can affect pairings.

Chicago State and UTEP are both teams making their first ever appearances in the tournament, while thirty-nine teams are returning this year after taking part in the 2023 NCAA Championship. Nebraska and Stanford have appeared in all the tournaments but one, but Penn State is the single team to appear in all 44.

The first and second matches will happen December 5-7 and those who advance to regionals(December 12-15). Those who advance out of regionals will continue on to the national semifinals and championship final hosted by the University of Louisville, on December 19 & 22 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville. You can watch The national semifinal matches on ESPN starting at 6:30 p.m. ET, and the championship match on ABC at 3 p.m. ET.

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About the Contributor

Kaiya Ramos, MS Yearbook Staff

Kaiya Ramos is a student journalist at Jupiter Christian School. Her graduation year is 2030 and she was born and raised in Jupiter,Fl. The 24-25 school year is, Ramos’ first year at JCS, but her older sister’s second. She is an athlete on the JV Volleyball team for the 2024 season and is excited to sign up for more activities as the year goes on. Ramos enjoys playing volleyball outside of school as well. She even plays for a team called Tribe a club in Deerfield Beach. After she graduates high school, Kaiya would like to pursue volleyball on a collegiate level. Ramos travels with her family to various locations but her favorite places that she’s been to are Hawaii and cooler places like Utah and Colorado. Kaiya doesn’t have any pets but she is definitely a dog person. Kaiya grew up watching college football with her family and was pretty much born into being a University of Miami fan. She went to many games when she was a child. Kaiya supports causes like, Live like Jake and others. Her favorite Bible verse is Psalm 46:5, “God is within her, she will not fall.” Kaiya’s life is guided by her faith in Christ, and she knows she will always have someone to count on and even when things don’t go her way, she can trust in God’s plan for her. An interesting fact about Kaiya is that she has 4 siblings ranging from almost 3 years old to 18, and she is the middle child .