2026 Lakeland Men's Volleyball Recap
 
Head Coach: Brian Rushmer (7th year)
Assistant Coach: Jake Jurney (3rd year)
Student Assistant Coaches: Olivia Swenson (2nd year), Lucero Velazquez (2nd year), Katelyn Kitsembel (1st year)
Overall Record: 9-16 overall, 4-8 in NACC
NACC Finish: 10th of 13 teams
Home Record: 4-9
Road Record: 4-5
Neutral Record: 1-2
Long Winning Streak: 3 matches
Long Losing Streak: 5 matches
Record vs. nationally ranked teams: 0-5
All-NACC Team: Chase Anderson (Honorable Mention)
NACC All-Academic Team: Joe Bieganski, Joe Butterfield, Jordan Davis-Troller, Wade Hesselink, Griffin Lemberger, Colin Putchinski, Drake Schleihs, Blake Schultz, Eli Weinrich
Leader in kills: Colin Putchinski (199)
Leader in assists: Chase Anderson (739)
Leader in service aces: Colin Putchinski (22)
Leader in digs: Luke Schultz (232)
Leader in blocks: Jordan Davis-Troller (56) 

Single-match highs:
Kills: 16 by Colin Putchinski vs Eli Winrich at Edgewood, Feb 24 and vs. Illinois Tech, March 3 
Hitting Percentage: Joe Butterfield, .765 vs. Maranatha Baptist, Jan. 17
Assists: Chase Anderson, 52 at Edgewood, Feb 24 and vs. Illinois Tech, March 3
Service Aces: Eli Weinrich, 5 vs. North Park, Jan. 27
Digs: 18 by Eli Weinrich at Trine, Jan 9 and Luke Schultz at Concordia Chicago, March 20
Blocks: Jordan Davis-Troller, 6 at Trine, Jan. 9
 
 
Season Highlights 

• Muskies' nine wins were the program's most since since 2019, and their four conference wins tied for the team's most since that year
• Lakeland defeated Illinois Tech for the first time since the 2019 season and topped Marian for first time since 2020
• Six of the team's nine wins were in three straight sets
• Chase Anderson set a new Lakeland men's volleyball varsity program record for career assists, passing Addison Mertler (2016-19) for the previous career program record of 2,554 and finishing with 2,720 assists
• Joe Butterfield tied a varsity single-match record for hitting percentage previously set by Desmond Williams (2019), finishing with a .765 hitting percentage against Maranatha Baptist, Jan. 17 with 13 kills on 17 attacks 
• Jakob Donohue recorded the second-best individual season hitting percentage (.356) in the program's varsity history
• Two players (Anderson and Jordan Davis-Troller) played in all 25 matches
• Five players (Davis-Troller, Donohue, Colin Putchinski, Eli Weinrich and Sage Xiong) finished with at least 150 kills
• Five players (Anderson, Putchinski, Schultz, Weinrich and Xiong) finished with at least 115 digs
• Anderson also finished his career fourth in sets played (355), seventh in matches played (97), eighth in blocks (126) and digs (533), and tied for ninth in service aces (47)
• Donohue finished his career third in blocks (191) and hitting percentage (.310), sixth in sets played (329) and ninth in matches played (93)
• Weinrich finished his career third in digs (616), seventh in service aces (62), eighth in matches played (94), and tied for eighth in sets played (325)
• Davis-Troller finished his Lakeland career fourth in program history in blocks (164) and fifth in hitting percentage (.270)
• Luke Schultz finished 3rd in the NACC in digs (234) and digs per set (2.72)
• Anderson finished 6th in the NACC in assists (738) and 7th in assists/set (8.58)
• Donohue finished 8th in the NACC in hitting percentage