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Top competition awaits Cyclones this weekend
You are hereHome SportsVolleyball: Top competition awaits Cyclones this weekendIowa State volleyball coach Christy Johnson Lynch and the Cyclones will host No. 3 Stanford on Friday. File Photo by Amy Vinchattle/Ames TribuneHilton Coliseum is hosting the first weekend of the NCAA volleyball tournament later this year. This weekend, though, it'll be home to something that feels much closer to matches deeper in that tournament.Iowa State will welcome No. Cheap Ghd Straighteners In Australia 3 Stanford and Nike Air Yeezy 2 No. 13 Florida State to Ames as part of the AVCA Showcase, with a match against the Cardinal on Friday and the Seminoles on Sunday.The Cyclones, who are receiving votes in the preseason AVCA Top 25, have faced both schools in the NCAA tournament in recent years. They lost to Stanford in the Sweet 16 of the 2012 tournament and the 'Noles in five sets in the Elite EIght in 2011."It causes me quite a bit of Nike Air Max Thea White anxiety, no question, playing such a great team right off the bat," ISU coach Christy Johnson Lynch said Monday. "You would prefer to kind of ease into it but at the same time it's such a great opportunity, such a great a great opportunity for our team, for the fans Nike Free Run 7.0 V2 Womens to see some great volleyball and this is where we want to be."The Cardinal are as elite as a program gets, with 18 Final Fours and six national championships while FSU has surged to the top of the ACC in recent years.The opening weekend slate is a testament to how far the program New Balance 993 Mens has come under Johnson Lynch's tutelage, guiding the Cyclones from the bottom of the Big 12 to a team that competes at the highest of levels nationally."We want to be the type of program that is ready Ghd Cheap Straighteners and embraces playing great competition right off the bat," Johnson Lynch said. "These are the type of teams we'll have to play and beat if we want to get to the Final Four and win a Big 12 championship. We're going to embrace it. I'll be up Air Jordan Retro 6 late, not much sleep this week, but that's pretty normal for the start of seasons. The theme is embrace it this week."ISU is coming off its annual intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday that left the team feeling confident heading into a first weekend that will show no mercy."The scrimmage was a really great test for us," Johnson Lynch said. "We saw some Air Jordan 11 Sydney things we didn't know before and I think we're just that much further along. 25Rules for posting commentsComments posted below are from readers.Comments may be monitored for inappropriate content but the newspaper is under no obligation to do so. Comment posters are solely responsible under the Communications Decency Act for comments posted on this Web site. Stephens Media LLC is not liable for messages from third parties.IP and email addresses of persons who post are not treated as confidential records and will be disclosed in response to valid legal process.
