Michigan women's volleyball will enter Big Ten play this week.

Head coach Mark Rosen sits down with me to talk about what he learned about his team this preseason and what's to come ahead.

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This is Conquering Heroes.

Here's your host, John Chanson.

Now joined by Mark Rosen, the head volleyball coach here at Michigan.

And Mark, first of all, thanks for joining me.

And second, you guys just finish your non-conference, your 9-1.

What did you learn about your team early in the season?

Well, thanks for having me.

I appreciate it.

I look forward to talking about our team.

Yeah, it was a great preseason.

You know, with the non-conference,

we kind of want to play some good teams, get better.

We also want to learn a lot of things about ourselves.

You know, and it's a great chance for us to kind of figure out some things. And I think we learned a lot. I thought we competed really well. This last

weekend was a good weekend. We had two really good teams here, and I thought we played the best we've

played all spring. So I feel like we're right where we wanted to be coming out of the non-con going into Big Ten. But now we'll see. It heats up a little bit

this weekend with the Big Ten starting, and the Big Ten is, as always, really, really good.

But I thought we learned a little bit about our offense. We've kind of gone to a two-setter system,

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