Men’s Volleyball: Nine Pirates continue their careers

COSTA MESA - Nine former Orange Coast College men’s volleyball

players have finalized their transfer plans, Pirates Coach Chuck Cutenese

said.

Seven of the players finished their OCC careers this spring and two

sophomores from the 2000 squad are also moving on.

Ryan Owens, who earned second-team, All-Orange Empire Conference

status this spring, is headed for USC, while Nick Ptaschinski, Kevin

Goff, B.J. Lightvoet and Brad Evans will be teammates at William Woods

University in Fulton, Missouri.

Dave Engle and Josh Miller will play for the University of La Verne

and Ed Chun and Pat McCarty are transferring to Kendall College in

Evanston, Ill.

Lightvoet and Ptaschinski were named Co-OEC Most Valuable Players this

spring after guiding the Pirates to the conference championship and the

title game of the state tournament.

Ptaschinski recorded 920 assists as a sophomore and finished his OCC

career with 1,863, the second-most in the school’s history. Lightvoet

posted 231 kills in 2001 to lead Coast in that category for the second

consecutive season. He wound up fifth on the Pirates’ all-time kills

chart.

Goff was one of just three Pirates to play in all 23 of OCC’s match’s

last season, finishing with 53 kills and 79 digs, while Evans battled

injuries and had 160 kills as a sophomore in 2000.

Chun, the team’s libero, set a school record with 233 digs in 2001 and

was named to the OEC’s first team. McCarty posted 84 kills and 18 service

aces as a sophomore in 2000.

Miller, who also played in the state championship game last year as a

member of the Pirates’ men’s soccer team, will remain a two-sport athlete

at La Verne. Engle, who will remain Miller’s teammate on the volleyball

court, fought off injuries to tally 66 blocks as a sophomore this year.

Owens posted 96 blocks and 118 kills for the Pirates in 2001. After

playing for Dominican University in Illinois as a freshman in 1999, he

redshirted in 2000.