Youth movement

By Mike Bresnahan

Sept. 18, 2001 12 AM PT

The youngest women’s volleyball team in the country might be Loyola Marymount’s.

Seven of the 15 players are freshmen and four are sophomores.

Making matters more challenging: The Lions’ only senior, Eleftheria Koukou, is out indefinitely because of tendinitis in her shoulder.

“There are a lot of young kids out there,” Coach Steve Stratos said. “The kind of schedule we’ve had has made it difficult to ease them into things.”

The Lions (4-3) canceled matches last week against Hawaii, ranked fourth in the coaches’ poll, and Brigham Young, ranked 16th, because of the terrorist attacks.

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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