# Episode 296, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20, Week 8 Recap 2-23-26

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Podcast: [The Viral Volley Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-viral-volley-podcast-744078)
Published: 2026-02-23T20:31:12+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4272

## Resource

In our Week 8 recap of the 2026 season the Coaches’ Panel (minus Dan out with the flu) discusses the action that happened in D1-2 Men’s Volleyball at our half way point! But first, we shout out our Instagram content creators @1stseedvolleyball’s John McNallly and Holly Wong of @hykchora for putting out excellent and engaging content in Men’s Volleyball! From there we discuss the start of a new D2 program at Mercy University, career milestones for Kevin Burch of Ohio St. and Shawn Olmstead of BYU. As always wee flow into our “Elephant in the Room” segment to our matches of the week and our Ballers of the Week. Our conversation flows into “Whatcha Watchin’” in Week 9 and we end with dropping a “Volleyball Hot Take”—for which I recommend you take a good listen! As always, thank you for watching/listening!

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