The Nebraska Wesleyan University volleyball team entered the AVCA Division III Coaches Top 25 Poll that was released on Sept. 22.  The Prairie Wolves are ranked No. 24 in this week’s poll. [complete poll]
NWU appears in the AVCA Top 25 for the first time since 2003, when the Prairie Wolves were ranked No. 25 in the Sept. 10, 2003 poll.  This is the 39th week that NWU has been ranked since 1992.

Nebraska Wesleyan has an 11-3 overall record to start the 2009 season.  The Prairie Wolves are coming off an impressive weekend where they went 4-0 to claim the Simpson College Tournament championship.  NWU knocked off then-No. 4 ranked Carthage College, 3-1, in the title match.

The Prairie Wolves have completed their NCAA Division III portion of their schedule with a 10-2 record.  One of their losses was a 3-2 decision to Wisconsin-Oshkosh, the new No. 1 team in the nation.  The other came to St. Mary’s of Minnesota, who they came back to defeat, 3-0, last weekend.

NWU is attempting to qualify for the NCAA III National Tournament for the sixth straight season this year.  In 2008, NWU made it to the second round of the NCAA III Tournament, before falling to eventual National Runner-up University of La Verne in California.

Nebraska Wesleyan returns to Great Plains Athletic Conference action this week with three road matches.  NWU takes on Concordia University on Wednesday (Sept. 23) then will have two matches this weekend at Dana College on Friday and at Midland Lutheran College on Saturday.