The Aggie volleyball team will begin the 2008 season ranked 23rd in the country. The Aggies will face the 2nd, 3rd and 12th ranked teams early in the season. NMSU will face #3 Texas in the season's second weekend, #2 Stanford the following weekend and #12 Hawai'i twice during conference play. Additionally the Aggies face the #32 ranked team Santa Clara, the #34 ranked team Utah and the #35 ranked team Illinois in the first two weekends of play. There is no doubt that this team will be battle tested when conference play rolls around and the Aggies should win their fair share of these tough non-conference matches which will springboard them into the conference season and a run at the WAC title. View the AVCA Preseason Top 25 poll.

The Aggies swimming and diving program has added Heidi Voigt to the staff as an assistant coach. According to the NMSU press release Voigt spent the past five seasons at Wyoming as both a graduate assistant for two years and assistant head coach for three years. Her duties at NMSU will include coaching the distance freestyle group, team travel and administration duties. Welcome to Aggie Country Heidi.

On to today's links...

Felix Chavez of the Las Cruces Sun-News reports that running back Seth Smith has left the team due to personal reasons.

ESPN.com's Graham Watson writes that a BCS bowl is within reach for Fresno State.

Graham Watson also writes that the WAC is Fresno State's to lose this season.

Graham Watson also held a chat on ESPN.com and fielded a couple of questions about Chase Holbrook.

Here are a couple of 2008 Olympic related links for you. The first is pictures of the Olympic venue built with Legos. The second is the Olympic venues made of playing cards.

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