The California volleyball team was selected to finish second in a 2009 preseason poll of the Pacific-10 Conference head coaches. The Golden Bears were one of two teams to receive first-place votes taking the top spot on one of the ten ballots. Washington was voted the favorite to win the Pac-10 by receiving the other nine first-place votes while three-time defending Pac-10 Champion Stanford was picked third. Coaches were not allowed to rank their own teams. More...