KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Fresno Pacific (Calif.), member of the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC), tops the preseason NAIA Volleyball Ratings and enters the 2008 campaign as reigning national champions. Four other GSAC members cracked the top ten including California Baptist, Concordia (Calif.), Biola (Calif.), Azusa Pacific (Calif.) and Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.). The Fresno Pacific Sunbirds return 2007 NAIA Player of the Year Shu Liu and are set to compete in the Southern Oregon Invitational and the Concordia Labor Day Festival in late August.  Columbia (Mo.), Northwestern (Iowa), College of Idaho and Madonna (Mich.) round out the top ten selections.

The first regular season ranking will be released on Tuesday, September 9.

Others receiving votes: Savannah College of Art and Design (Ga.) 126; University of Mobile (Ala.) 107; Indiana Wesleyan University 82; Hastings College (Neb.) 79; Lubbock Christian University (Texas) 64; Missouri Baptist University 51; Cornerstone University (Mich.) 48; Freed-Hardeman University (Tenn.) 48; Lee University (Tenn.) 41; Westmont College (Calif.) 24; Montana Tech of the University of Montana 17; Texas Wesleyan University 17; Oklahoma City University 16; Black Hills State University (S.D.) 16; Oregon Institute of Technology 13; Indiana University Southeast 10; Webber International University (Fla.) 7; Taylor University (Ind.) 5; King College (Tenn.) 5; Saint Xavier University (Ill.) 5; College of the Ozarks (Mo.) 4; Bethel College (Kan.) 4; University of Great Falls (Mont.) 3; William Penn University (Iowa) 3; Berry College (Ga.) 3; Malone College (Ohio) 1; Martin Methodist College (Tenn.) 1; William Jewell College (Mo.) 1; Southwestern Assemblies of God University (Texas) 1; South Dakota School of Mines & Tech. 1.