About The Team 

The six-year-old men's volleyball team continues to build and improve through recruiting and a highly competitive schedule. In 2007, they recorded a school-record 10 wins, placed third in the midseason Gothic Knight Invitational, and earned a program-record sixth place finish in the final North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division regular season standings.

The Blazers' schedule featured a combined five matches against three teams ranked in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division III Top 15 Coaches Poll last season: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,) Newbury College (Brookline, Massachusetts), and Rivier College (Nashua, New Hampshire).

The Blazers, who also faced their first-ever Division I opponent last season (Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut), have had players ranked as both NECVA and NCAA Division III leaders.

Last season, outside hitter Byron Bledsoe (Lake Forest, CA) and setter Ivan Andujar (Carolina, Puerto Rico) became the first players in program-history to be named First Team All-NECVA New England.

Bledsoe, who finished with a single-season, program-record 385 kills, ranked among the top 10 nationally in NCAA Division III in kills per game (4.58). He also set new single-season records in both digs (229) and points (431) in 2007.

Andujar, who handed out a single-season record 838 assists, also ranked among the top 20 nationally in Division III for both assists per game (9.98) and aces (43).

Middle blocker Brian Cunniff (Pittsfield, MA) finished his three-year playing career third all-time in kills, fourth in digs, second in total blocks, and third in total points.

The 2008 schedule once again features divisional matches against NECVA powers MIT, Newbury, Rivier, and Endicott College (Beverly, Massachusetts). The Blazers return to compete in the Gothic Knight Invitational and will make their first-ever appearance in the York Invitational.

Elms College competes as members of both the NCAA Division III and NECVA. The NECVA is a 39-team conference and has members in New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Each year the conference's postseason tournament champion is granted an automatic bid into the four-team Molten Division III National Championship.