2026 WIAC Volleyball Season

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3 weeks away pretty much from season opening tournaments. Preseason AVCA poll should be coming out next week I believe. Don't expect anyone other than Defending National Champion UW-Oshkosh to be sitting a top. Eau Claire and Whitewater figure to be in the mix there as well. Anyways, should be another great year of WIAC volleyball.

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Pre season poll released today. As expected UW-Oshkosh a unanimous #1. Eau Claire starts out in the top 10 coming in at #17. Whitewater rounds out the WIAC teams in the top 25 at #16.

No WIAC teams even receiving votes at this point. I'll try and get a post out early next week on first weekend matches for at least the ranked teams.

Massey pre-season rankings have been out for a few weeks, but I'll lay off those for a couple weeks until teams get some matches under belts.

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2026 Preseason WIAC poll as voted by WIAC coaches and SIDs.

1. Oshkosh
2. Eau Claire
3. Whitewater
4. Platteville
5. Stevens Point
6. La Crosse
7. Stout-Poly
8. River Falls.

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Opening weekend coming up with the 3 ranked WIAC teams heading out of state. Whitewater and Eau Claire head East while Oshkosh is headed to the West Coast.

 #1 Oshkosh heads out to the University of Puget Sound where they will have 4 matches against unranked opponents, so should be a nice ease into the season for them. Opponents include:

Pacific
Pacific Lutheran
Franklin & Marshall (Receiving Votes)
U of Puget Sound

#16 Whitewater heads to New Jersey for the Kean University invitational for 3 matches that include:

Penn State - Harrisburg
Cortland
Kean University (Receiving Votes)

#7 Eau Claire heads to Virginia to the Captain's Classic hosted by Christopher Newport University where they have a 3 match gauntlet against 3 preseason top 25 ranked teams that include:

#25 New York University
#19 Christopher Newport
#12 Juniata