The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team are on the road again on Thursday against Loyola Marymount, and will then travel to San Diego for the Aztec Challenge on Friday and Saturday. LBSU (1-5) is on a four-game losing streak, its last win was on Aug. 25 against Wright State.[Read More…]
Women’s Volleyball
LBSU women’s volleyball comes home winless, losing its fourth in a row
The women’s volleyball team came home without a win in the Wolverine Invitational hosted by Utah Valley. Consistency and maintaining leads were a big problem for the 49ers in this past weekend’s tournament. While LBSU showed toughness against challenging opponents, it was not enough to muster a win. On Thursday,[Read More…]
The Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer era
When Brian Gimmillaro announced his retirement in June, Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer and Matt Fuerbringer had a tough decision that could have impacted their future as a couple; who would chase after the newly-opened Long Beach State women’s volleyball coach position. McKienzie-Fuerbringer and her husband decided that she would be the better[Read More…]
LBSU women’s volleyball drops final match against Iowa
Updated August 29, 2017 The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team fell 1-2 in the season after a 25-23, 22-25, 25-16, 25-21 loss to Iowa on Saturday in the last game of the LBSU Baden Challenge tournament. Junior outside hitter Megan Kruidhof led the team with 14 kills while also[Read More…]
LBSU women’s volleyball loses to reigning champion Stanford in season opener
The women’s volleyball team began its season with the LBSU Baden Challenge hosted in the Walter Pyramid. On Friday LBSU was swept in their first game 25-19, 25-21, 25-13 against reigning champion No. 2 Stanford but followed up with a 27-25, 25-18, 25-15 sweep win against Wright State. The 49ers[Read More…]
The start of a new era under Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer
The women’s volleyball program has a big change this year with the departure of head coach Brian Gimmillaro, who retired last season after a 32-year coaching career at LBSU. Filling this vacancy in the program is Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer, and with her arrival comes the ushering in of a new style[Read More…]
Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer named women’s volleyball head coach
After the unexpected news of former head coach Brian Gimmillaro announcing his retirement earlier this month, LBSU Athletic Director Andy Fee was seeking to fill the vacant spot. In a couple of weeks, Fee found what he was looking for. On Monday, Fee announced the hiring of Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer as[Read More…]
Women’s volleyball head coach Brian Gimmillaro is moving on
Long Beach State women’s volleyball coach Brian Gimmillaro help create the foundation of producing some of the best volleyball talent the sport has ever seen. He coached Olympian Misty May-Treanor, who is arguably the greatest to play the sport of volleyball. Gimmillaro led Treanor to winning National Player of the[Read More…]
Beach volleyball is heading to Alabama
The Long Beach State beach volleyball team’s season will continue after making it to the 8-team NCAA National Beach Volleyball Tournament in Gulf Shores, Alabama. LBSU, who lost to Hawai’i in the Big West tournament final, will be the No. 6-seed in the tournament and will face No. 3 Pepperdine[Read More…]
Long Beach State women’s water polo team loses to No. 10 Princeton
After going 3-1 last week at the LMU Invite, the No. 16 Long Beach State women’s water polo team returned home to take on No. 10 Princeton at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. The Tigers (16-1) got off to a hot start both offensively and defensively, leading 4-0 at the[Read More…]