Support UNC Asheville Volleyball and Coach Torbett

The UNC Asheville volleyball team is finally home for awhile. Bulldog fans need to take advantage of these five matches and come out and support this young team. It’s been a weird schedule for Julie Torbett’s club but when you have won as much as the Bulldogs have done the past few years its a little harder to schedule home matches.

Our fans need to support this young team that is playing its heart out every match but for Coach Torbett. She needs just two victories to reach 300 for her career, all at UNC Asheville. Coach “T” began her head coaching career back in 1994 with a win over UT-Martin, while she was pregnant with her first son Nate. A lot of wins have come since that Thursday night in late August and two more Torbett boys.

Julie’s teams have always played hard and given us some incredible volleyball action. Who can forget her 2002 team that was picked to finish in last place and finished first with a thrilling five-set win over Winthrop in the final home match of the season. The 2005 team that knocked off Memphis and Louisiana Tech and got to the Big South Conference title game. Her young 2006 team with Elif Unlu that went to another Big South title game. The Bulldogs bounced back from a tough start to finish in second place in the league standings. How about last year’s club that won the regular-season title in dramatic fashion over Winthrop on the final day of the season, 16-14 in the fifth set.

This year’s team graduated a lot from last year’s 25-10 squad. Throw in a tough non-conference schedule that has included road matches all throughout the southeast, the fact the Bulldogs are 13-10 is amazing. But Coach Torbett has amazed us time after time in her brilliant coaching career.

We need to show her the same support. Make your plans to come to Justice Center tonight, tomorrow after, next Tuesday and next weekend to support the Bulldogs.