Pioneers’ 9 awards in past 5 years second to only 3-time national champ
Third-seeded Pioneers (22-0) face New York squad in first round of tournament in Iowa
Congratulations to the Region 20 October Players of the Month. The Region recognized six student-athletes from six member institutions for excellence on the field, court, and course during the month of October.
NJCAA Mid-Atlantic District Championship - #4 BC3 vs. #2 Sandhills - Saturday, November 1 @ 1 PM https://www.youtube.com/live/B057K-L82K8
Pioneers are 21-0 and one home victory away from national championship tournament berth
Longtime head coach 3 wins shy of 500 with Pioneers
Anora Robare and Sarah Lucas had career-high efforts in the first match and also led the Butler County Community College volleyball team in the second as the fifth-ranked Pioneers moved to 18-0 with victories Saturday against the College of Southern Maryland and Westmoreland County Community College in Youngwood. The Pioneers beat Southern Maryland (25-27) 25-20, 28-26 and 25-10; then Westmoreland 25-12, 25-12 and 25-13.
Congratulations to the Region 20 Players of the Month for August/September 2025. Region 20 recognized eight student-athletes from six member institutions.
All-American Josie Russo and Dakota Weldon had nine kills each, Anora Robare 27 assists and Sarah Lucas nine digs as the fifth-ranked Butler County Community College volleyball team moved to 16-0 on Tuesday evening with its 15th sweep of the season. Molly Bissell added seven kills and with Robare seven digs each as the Pioneers topped Penn State Shenango 25-18, 25-21 and 25-17.
The Butler County Community College volleyball team for the first time this season had three players reach double digits in kills and setter Anora Robare had 34 assists and four service aces as the sixth-ranked Pioneers swept Pennsylvania Highlands Community College on Friday to move to 13-0. All-American middle hitter Josie Russo had 13 kills, Molly Bissell 11 and Dakota Weldon 10 as BC3 posted a 25-11, 25-8 and 25-13 victory in Johnstown. Summer Haney and Sarah Lucas led the Pioneers with eight digs each. Robare had seven and Bissell and Maeggie Wysocki six each. The sweep was BC3’s 12th in 2025 and 11th in a row. The Pioneers have held opponents to 16 or fewer points in 27 of the past 30 sets. They have not lost a set in 12 matches dating to Aug. 23. The Pioneers are ranked No. 6 among 86 National Junior College Athletic Association Division III programs. The program has been in the Top 15 in Division III in 31 of 35 polls dating to Oct. 4, 2021.
Proceeds from runners, walkers and kids’ dashers, sponsors and donors benefit BC3’s intercollegiate athletics programs that have won 59 Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference and 29 National Junior College Athletic Association Division III Region 20 championships. BC3’s programs have qualified for national championship tournaments 13 times and produced 40 All-American awards. “I think the community is really proud of our athletics programs,” said Megan M. Coval, BC3’s president, “and has a great appreciation and admiration for how hard our student-athletes work. They are doing their best in the classroom and many of them have jobs. Then they go out there on the court or course and come home winners.”
Anora Robare tied a career high with five service aces and All-American Josie Russo reached double digits in kills for the fifth consecutive match as the seventh-ranked Butler County Community College volleyball team swept the Community College of Allegheny County on Wednesday and moved to 11-0 in 2025. Russo had 12 kills and Dakota Weldon nine, and Molly Bissell and Marissa Metzka added three service aces each as the Pioneers posted victories of 25-13, 25-9 and 25-12 in BC3’s Field House. The sweep was BC3’s 10th in 2025 and ninth in a row. The Pioneers have held opponents to 15 or fewer points in 21 of their past 24 matches.
All-American Russo has 18 kills, career-high 15 digs in Pioneers' 8th sweep
All-American middle hitter Josie Russo had 12 kills, setter Anora Robare 26 assists and defensive specialist Sara Lucas nine digs as the seventh-ranked Butler County Community College volleyball team moved to 8-0 on Tuesday by defeating Penn State DuBois 3-0. Outside hitter Dakota Weldon added seven kills and opposite hitter Emmy Fisher six service aces in the Pioneers’ 25-13, 25-15, 25-6 sweep, their seventh of the season. Fisher had eight digs and defensive specialist Maeggie Wysocki seven for BC3, ranked No. 7 among 86 National Junior College Athletic Association Division III programs for two consecutive weeks. Russo added three solo blocks and outside hitter Molly Bissell two for the Pioneers. Russo is second in Division III with 1.43 blocks per set, fourth in hitting percentage at .418 and eighth with 3.78 kills per set. Robare is sixth with 8.04 assists per set. The Pioneers are first in hitting percentage at .280 and third in blocks per set at 2.4 in Division III. Russo is a graduate of Freeport; Robare and Bissell, of Slippery Rock; Lucas, of Butler; Weldon, of Laurel; Fisher, of Seneca Valley; and Wysocki, of Apollo-Ridge. BC3 visits Penn State Greater Allegheny at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Russo has 24 kills, Robare 63 assists as unbeaten Pioneers record sweeps Outside hitter Dakota Weldon had 11 kills in the first sweep and All-American middle hitter Josie Russo 16 in the second as the Butler County Community College volleyball team Saturday defended its jump to No. 7 nationally with two victories and began a third consecutive season with a 7-0 record. Setter Anora Robare had 26 assists in the Pioneers’ 25-23, 25-15, 25-11 win against Harrisburg Area Community College in the first match in BC3’s Field House. She had a career-high 37 in the second, a 25-15, 25-14, 29-27 victory against Lorain County Community College, Elyria, Ohio, which represented the Pioneers’ sixth sweep of the season. Russo had eight kills in the first match, Robare and defensive specialist Marly Koleno each had 13 digs and outside hitter Molly Bissell eight. Koleno had a career-high 20 digs and Robare 12 in the second match, and Weldon and Bissell added seven kills each.
