Good Sports: Homegrown talent keeping Fresno Pacific volleyball dominant

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno Pacific volleyball has yet to suffer a crippled this season.

They're 1 of lone 2 teams ranked successful this week's AVCA coaches canvass that are inactive undefeated.

Breaking the apical 25 for the archetypal clip successful 12 years wasn't a astonishment to anyone successful the program.

"I had nary hint wherever we were going to beryllium ranked, but I knew we deserved it," says freshman Madelyn Feramisco.

Feramisco is nary alien to starring a team. A erstwhile varsity skipper astatine Clovis East, the FPU freshman leads the Sunbirds successful kills and aces this season.

Mikayla Weiss, a Buchanan grad, conscionable notched her 1000th vocation assist.

The homegrown endowment is evident - the intangibles are what person acceptable this squad apart.

"I would accidental the squad civilization is antithetic than immoderate different squad I've been on," Weiss said. "We each emotion each other, enactment each different connected and disconnected the tribunal and successful each facet of life."

Two years ago, manager Kelsee Montagna was handed a programme that looked a batch different.

"I knew determination needed to beryllium a civilization change," she said.

The tiny displacement successful attack led to a bigger displacement connected the court. A roster filled with Central Valley natives showing up for the programme is seeing the Central Valley amusement up for them.

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