Dancing with Coyotes
Wolff to play in NCAA volleyball tourney with USD
Hopefully the end is a couple of weeks away, but Jackson County Central graduate Alaina Wolff will finish her college volleyball career in the NCAA tournament.
Wolff is a 5-foot-6 senior defensive specialist at the University of South Dakota.
The Coyotes will play sixth-ranked Creighton at 7 p.m. Thursday at D.J. Sokol Arena in Omaha. Thursday’s other match at 4:30 p.m. will have Ole Miss facing Florida State. The winners will play at 7 p.m. Friday.
South Dakota won the Summit League’s automatic qualifier spot as it won three matches in three days to win the conference tournament in Kansas City last week.
Wolff will be playing in her second NCAA tournament with USD. In 2022 the Coyotes lost 3-2 in the first round to Houston, also in Omaha. The Coyotes have played in the NCAA tourney five times since 2018 and played in Omaha four times and once in Minneapolis.
The last time the Coyotes were at D.J. Sokol Arena was during the spring COVID season with USD earning a 3-2 win over the then No. 14 Bluejays on Jan. 29, 2021.
Wolff, who played one season at Wayne State, reached 1,000 digs for her collegiate career on Oct. 24 vs. Denver and now has 1,071.
She has played in all 30 matches for the 21-9 Coyotes and also in each of the team’s 116 sets. Wolff is averaging 2.37 digs per set.