Volleyball adds transfers Korba and Stanev for 2025

MILWAUKEE – Marquette University women’s volleyball first-year head coach Tom Mendoza has announced the addition to two transfers, senior setter Allie Korba and rising junior middle blocker Julia Stanev for the fall of 2025.

Korba has one season of eligibility remaining, while Stanev has a pair. Both arrive on campus this summer.

Korba, a 5-foot-9 setter from Arlington Heights, Illinois, was the 2024 Mid-American Conference Setter of the Year at Central Michigan University after posting 1,137 assists over 126 sets in 2024. She played under current MU assistant coach Stef Jankiewicz the past three seasons in Mount Pleasant and helped the Chippewas to a No. 2 seed in the MAC tournament this past fall.

“We are excited to add Allie to the team,” Mendoza said. “She brings experience and leadership, coming in the reigning MAC Setter of the Year. We know Allie’s presence will be a difference maker in our gym.”

She posted 11 double-doubles with averages of 9.02 assists and 2.04 digs per frame in 2024. Korba notched a career-high 58 assists in a five-set victory at Akron in the regular season finale on Nov. 16 alongside nine digs and three blocks.

The John Hersey High School graduate played for Sky High Volleyball Club and spent her junior year as a prep player at Badger High School in Lake Geneva.

Stanev is a 6-foot-3 middle blocker from Reggio Emilia, Italy, a city northeast of Bologna located between Parma and Modena. She played two seasons at Eastern Illinois and was among the team’s block leaders both seasons, recording 99.0 total blocks as a freshman in 2023 and 79.0 last fall. Stanev averaged 0.96 blocks per frame over 54 matches in her first two seasons while hitting .250 (152-47-420) with 0.82 kills and 1.37 points per set.

“Adding Julia to the team will provide great depth and experience to our middle group,” Mendoza said. “She can impact the game both with her block and attack and she’s excited to compete at a highest level.”

Stanev played against the Golden Eagles twice while at EIU, once in the 2024 season opener and an NCAA First Round match in 2023 at Purdue. She finished her freshman season sixth in the Ohio Valley Conference with 1.04 blocks per set while helping the Panthers to an OVC title and a 28-5 overall record.

Stanev attended Liceo Linguistico G. Marconi School in Parma and played for Pallavolo Alsenese in Piacenza.

Earlier this spring the Golden Eagles announced their non-conference schedule for the fall of 2025, featuring a match against Wisconsin at Fiserv Forum on Wednesday, Sept. 17 in addition to key matchups with WKU, Dayton, Florida and Minnesota at the Al McGuire Center.

Marquette went 25-9 in the fall of 2024 and made its third NCAA Regional appearance before falling to the eventual NCAA Champion Penn State in the regional semifinals.

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