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Penn State Womens Volleyball Schedule Player Comments and Coach Quotes

Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley and players Allie Holland and Zoe Weatherington discuss the Penn State womens volleyball schedule and more at Big 10 Media Days.




 The Penn State womens volleyball schedule,

  • rebuilding the roster with the help of the transfer portal 
  • the Megan Hodge Easy effect and the other assistant coach roles
  • the summer training
  • the Penn State womens volleyball schedule
  • the effect of the professional league

are topics discussed by Penn State Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley, Allie Holland and Zoe Weatherington during the second annual Big Ten Volleyball Media Day event on August 4-5, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois at the Big Ten Network.



Penn State Womens
Volleyball
Schedule 2023



AUGUST

25    vs. Florida1

26    vs. Georgia Tech1


SEPTEMBER

1    WESTERN KENTUCKY2

2    COLGATE2

3    JAMES MADISON2

8    at Temple

10    at Louisville

15    UMBC3

16    SETON HALL3

20    RUTGERS*

24   at Northwestern*

29    at Illinois*

30    at Minnesota*


OCTOBER

6    INDIANA*

7     OHIO STATE*

13    at Iowa*

14    at Nebraska*

20    IOWA*

22    PURDUE*

27    at Michigan*

28    at Michigan State*


NOVEMBER

3      NEBRASKA*

5      at Purdue*

10    MICHIGAN*

11    WISCONSIN*

17    MICHIGAN STATE*

18    NORTHWESTERN*

22    at Maryland*

24   at Ohio State*


Home matches in BOLD ALL CAPS

* Denotes conference match

1 Road 2 Tampa Bay Invitational (Tampa, Fla.)

2 Penn State Invitational (Rec Hall)

3 Penn State Classic (Rec Hall)



Penn State Volleyball Schedule 2023, Allie Holland and Zoe Weatherington Player Comments and Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley Quotes on rebuilding the roster with the help of the transfer portal 


Q. Katie, what prompted the interest in the transfer portal during the off-season? You hit it pretty hard and got a lot of roster rebuild. What sparked your need to do that?

KATIE SCHUMACHER-CAWLEY: Well, if you remember last year, we had quite a few as well because we had several players that didn't come back for their fifth year. We were on this one-year cycle of having players that were here for one season.

We had the scholarship monies and we want to be the best and waited to see who was available and got some really great players.


Q. Is that a cycle that you see in the future, or have you been hitting the high school ranks harder?

KATIE SCHUMACHER-CAWLEY: I think this year we have four freshmen, so I think that will slow down a little bit as far as the transfer goes.

We always want to get the best players, so I'm hopeful, and I always want players to be here for their entire career. But it's been a little different these days.


Q. When you're talking to transfers, I know some of those came from opponents you played against last year, too. How do you deal with that, where they may be facing the awkwardness of their former coach, former teammates, things like that? How do you deal with that in recruiting them to come join your program?


ALLIE HOLLAND: This is going to be kind of a cheesy answer, but stretching and icing freshman year, you think that you don't need it every day, and then you get to be a senior, and you're like, dang, I really should have done that a little bit more.

Also, it's a long season. I remember freshman year I would be like extra work, extra work, jumping, all these -- it's like, okay, you've got to take a breath. We have a long season ahead of us.

So I think taking care of your body is something that I could go back in time and do more of.

ZOE WEATHERINGTON: I would say more so off the court for me, the type of person I am, it's probably asking for help. I'm pretty independent, so I try and take on a lot of things that there are probably people that are employed for that.

But yeah, I think as a freshman, I wish I could tell myself to not try and pile up everything on my own shoulders and ask for help sometimes because we have a big -- especially at Penn State, we have a really, really big support system.



Penn State Volleyball Schedule 2023, Allie Holland and Zoe Weatherington Player Comments and Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley Quotes on the newcomers


Q. What's something you know now as seniors that you didn't know as freshmen, and what advice do you have for the newcomers?


ALLIE HOLLAND: This is going to be kind of a cheesy answer, but stretching and icing freshman year, you think that you don't need it every day, and then you get to be a senior, and you're like, dang, I really should have done that a little bit more.

Also, it's a long season. I remember freshman year I would be like extra work, extra work, jumping, all these -- it's like, okay, you've got to take a breath. We have a long season ahead of us.

So I think taking care of your body is something that I could go back in time and do more of.

ZOE WEATHERINGTON: I would say more so off the court for me, the type of person I am, it's probably asking for help. I'm pretty independent, so I try and take on a lot of things that there are probably people that are employed for that.

But yeah, I think as a freshman, I wish I could tell myself to not try and pile up everything on my own shoulders and ask for help sometimes because we have a big -- especially at Penn State, we have a really, really big support system.



Penn State Volleyball Schedule 2023, Allie Holland and Zoe Weatherington Player Comments and Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley Quotes on the effect Megan Easy returning to the program has on the team 


Q. What does Megan Hodge Easy bring to the coaching staff, and how excited are you to work with her?

KATIE SCHUMACHER-CAWLEY: Yeah, I'm thrilled Megan is coming back, her and her family. This will be her first coaching role, and she's so excited to be a part of the team and back at Penn State.

I'm looking for her to continue to be a role model for our players, and obviously her experiences playing will be super helpful for all of the athletes.

It's a great addition.

ALLIE HOLLAND: Yeah, we're super, super excited. We're counting the days down until we can have her in the gym with us. She came to visit in the spring and she was super, super kind. So I'm very excited for her to be there.

And also just having another Penn State icon in our gym is going to be so helpful to us. Having like these female, strong athletes that have played at Penn State, one here with me and also Megan, is going to be huge.

ZOE WEATHERINGTON: Yeah, it's not every day you get a Penn State multiple-time Player of the Year in your gym. I'm hyped.


Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley and players Allie Holland and Zoe Weatherington Comments on the Penn State womens volleyball schedule and the team culture


Q. Allie, you've seen a lot of new players come in the past years. How do you work to integrate them into the team culture and keep that consistent as many of the faces are changing?


ALLIE HOLLAND: Well, I think it all starts really on their visit and them deciding if they want to come to Penn State. They know what they're getting themselves into. They know we're competitive. They know we work hard, but also we make it very apparent that our team culture is a family.

When they come again, like Zoe said, a lot of these transfers we know from playing against them, from youth camps when we were younger. So I think really communicating to them, on their visit and then as soon as they're a part of our team, they're a part of our team.

I think we've spent so much time together off the court this summer that we're going to be able to really build that onto the court.



Q. Zoe, a lot of these players were in your shoes where you were a year ago. What advice would you give the transfers coming into the program how to integrate and be part of the culture?

ZOE WEATHERINGTON: Honestly, once they come into the program, there's not really much we need to tell them. When they're on their visits, we don't try and sell, sell, sell. We tell them what it's like and let them know what they're getting into because if you're on your visit, I want you to know as a transfer, like, what this program is all about.

If you choose and you get here, you're part of the family. But I would just say that you've just got to work hard in our program and you'll be fine.


The Penn State Womens Volleyball Schedule Player Comments and Coach Quotes



Penn State Volleyball Schedule 2023, Allie Holland and Zoe Weatherington Player Comments and Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley Quotes on the effect of professional womens volleyball league in the city


Q. What are your thoughts on the Athletes Unlimited Exhibition and your thoughts on the pro game in general in this country?

ALLIE HOLLAND: I thought that us having the opportunity to do that was so amazing, not only getting to have a chance to showcase what we've been working on in the spring and have a chance to have somewhat of a match in the spring, but also them coming the day before us, getting to have dinner with them, us getting to meet these girls that we've looked up to for a really long time.

I think getting to talk to them and get advice from them was probably the biggest thing I took away from that. And also just getting to see them in action. Seeing some of these girls I've been watching since I was a kid, I was kind of fan-girling. Seeing Morgan Hentz, I was definitely in fan-girl mode.

ZOE WEATHERINGTON: I agree, being able to play the pro team and sit down and talk to Morgan Hentz about her National Championships that she won is not like a common experience that every player gets, so I'm grateful about that.

I'm grateful that the pro game in the U.S. is growing and becoming more just profitable. I'm really excited about that and that we don't have to rely on overseas leagues to -- which it's also great, but I'm glad that it's here, too, because volleyball deserves to be on every screen in every country.


Penn State Volleyball Schedule 2023, Allie Holland and Zoe Weatherington Player Comments and Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley Quotes on the defensive specialists

Q. Coach, what are your thoughts on your defensive specialists?


KATIE SCHUMACHER-CAWLEY: Well, we have a lot of them. Hopefully we'll be digging a lot more balls.

I think it'll be really competitive. I think Maddy, Gill, Lina, Cassie, Quinn, they'll compete. I tell the girls every year, it's a new season, and I'll put the best players out there and the best mix, and the goal for all of them is to win, so we'll do that.





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