Viterbo volleyball coach Ryan DeLong as team continues in tourney

Longtime Viterbo volleyball coach Ryan DeLong joined WIZM’s La Crosse Talk, as his team continues in the NAIA tournament. We discuss volleyball in the area, the expectations — perhaps unfairly — put on the 15th-ranked V-Hawks to seemingly always qualify for the postseason and how they got here this time around.

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This is DeLong’s 20th year at Viterbo, which moved to a new conference this season and proceeded to win it and take multiple awards. The V-Hawks (26-9) have won conference titles in 11 of their past 15 seasons and have gotten to the NAIA Final Four five times over that span.

Viterbo begins pool play at 7:30 p.m. Thursday with 20th-ranked Nelson (Texas / 30-5). At 7:30 p.m. Friday, the V-Hawks face No. 7 Southern Oregon (29-3)