Linn-Mar’s Chelsea Burkle has signed to play volleyball at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, an NCAA Division II program.
Burkle averaged 4.36 kills per game as a senior as the Lions advanced to the state tournament.
Here is more from the UMSL website.

Marion’s Brittany Fish and JoAnna Forkner will sign national letters of intent Wednesday.
Forkner will play volleyball at Kirkwood Community College; Fish will play basketball at Maryville University (St. Louis).
The signings will be at 3 p.m. and 3:15 p.m.
Forkner was a part of Marion’s state-championship team in 2008. Fish helped lead the Indians to two state-tournament appearances in basketball.

Marion High School senior Maggie Murphy has accepted an offer from Charleston Southern University to play volleyball.
Charleston Southern is an NCAA Division I university and a member of the Big South Conference. Murphy helped lead Marion to the 3A state title in 2008 and 3A state semifinals in 2009. 
She holds the single season digs record and is second all-time in digs in Marion volleyball history.  She plans to study biology and chemistry.

Dubuque Wahlert volleyball coach Julie Kieffer has resigned.
Kieffer led the Dubuque Hempstead to the 2003 Class 4A state championship, then piloted Wahlert to titles in 2004 and 2005.
Here’s a link to a story by The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Success breeds success, according to Tripoli volleyball coach Will Baumann.
The Panthers know a little bit about success. They’ve been in 10 of the last 11 state volley tournaments, winning seven titles.
Defending champion and top-ranked Tripoli swept Grandview Park Baptist, 25-22, 25-16, 25-9, in a Class 1A state quarterfinal of the state tournament Thursday at the U.S. Cellular Center.
The Panthers are serious about their tradition of reaching state and winning — a lot.
“We want to keep representing what Tripoli’s about, and that’s what we focus on,” Panthers senior …

Emily Ryan talks about pre-game rituals and gets a college coach’s perspective on the tournament, and we see some of Southern Cal head coach Wade Voith’s advice for his team.

Sportswriters Jeff Linder and K.J. Pilcher hosted the second daily chat on the state girls volleyball tournament today at 11:30. Replay the live chat below.
LIVE CHAT: Jeff Linder on State Volleyball, Day 2

From the fans came a standing ovation for the Springville Orioles, as they left the court with heavy hearts, after a hard fought battle that did not go the Orioles way. It was the end of the 2009 volleyball road for the Orioles, as Don Bosco took the match in four games to advance to the State Tourney.
After losing two close games, the Orioles bounced back to win the third in a slightly quicker paced match-up.  Momentum slipped away in game four when Don Bosco ran up an 8 point lead that ultimately was …

SOLON — Let Ali Stark describe her team’s strategy going into its Class 2A regional volleyball final Tuesday night against West Branch.
“In practice, we’ve been preparing for this and going through pretty hard drills,” the Mount Vernon junior said. ”We wanted to keep up our intensity the entire time and not let them in (it). We just wanted to come in, play our game and dominate.”
So did your team do that, Ali?
“Yeah, I thought we did a good job of that,” she smiled.
No argument here. Mount Vernon played like the …

CEDAR RAPIDS XAVIER vs. SOUTHEAST POLK
Region: Class 4A Region 4
Site & time: Marshalltown, 7 p.m.
Records & rankings: Both teams are unranked. Xavier is 19-18; Southeast Polk is 16-15.
Notable: Southeast Polk pulled a regional-semifinal shocker, ousting No. 8 Cedar Rapids Washington in five games at Washington. Xavier survived its own thrilled, outlasting Des Moines Roosevelt in five games. SEP is searching for its first trip to state. The Saints have made one voyage, in 2004.
Linder’s pick: Southeast Polk in 5.
 
CEDAR RAPIDS KENNEDY vs. WATERLOO EAST
Region: Class 4A Region 5
Site & time: …