The Pacific Tigers men's volleyball program was discontinued after 2014. Now, it's making a comeback.
Pacific needed to figure out how to navigate the new D1 athletics era, and Tschuor said the impetus for this happened in May 2024 when the House settlement "hit that changed college athletics as we know it."
"Private institutions, like us, that are reliant on enrollment, that became a problem," Tschuor said. "We were going to have to say goodbye to 30 student-athletes that were over and above the roster caps that we had. So, it became very difficult for us, funding-wise, and, along with the university, we didn't want to be a drain on enrollment."
"Lo and behold, there were a couple of sports on that list that we had a history with," Tschuor said. "And the one that really shined the light for us was men's volleyball."
"It's just so much excitement to have it renewed and coming back on campus, and honestly, I see so much potential out of this program," he said.
Young talked about the growth of the sport in high school and said they just need more growth now in college for men's volleyball. Tschuor said there's big interest for U.S. volleyball, especially with the 2028 LA Summer Olympics right around the corner and said that this is a volleyball-rich space with kids playing club and high school in this region, the Bay Area and the Central Valley.
The USA Volleyball Foundation, First Point Volleyball and East Coast Volleyball gave a $250,000 grant to support the new program.
"Sport, and volleyball in particular, especially being such a team-oriented sport, it teaches so many life lessons that we can build young men into men who are going to go out and contribute to the world," Young said.
Tschuor said men's volleyball is one of four sports they've added in the last two years.
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