NEW ORLEANS – Division favorites Coastal Carolina and Texas State and 12 All-Sun Belt Conference performers from a year ago headline the 2019 women's volleyball preseason poll and honors, as voted on by the league’s 12 head coaches.
The preseason poll has defending champion Texas State as the unanimous pick to win the West Division with all 12 first-place votes and 72 points. Coastal Carolina edged out Appalachian State as the East Division favorite with seven first-place votes and 67 points, just ahead of the Mountaineers' five first-place votes and 65 points.
Texas State enters this season coming off a historic 2018 campaign, earning its first NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship victory, first Sun Belt regular-season title and second Sun Belt Tournament title in program history.