By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Less than a week after the Tennessee Tech volleyball team and head coach Jeannette Phillips celebrated eight members of the squad with Senior Day festivities, the Golden Eagles announced the signing of one of the largest classes of freshmen in the history of the program.
The purple and gold is set to welcome seven fresh faces to Cookeville for the 2025 season, including liberos Caroline Fruge, Brooklyn Rapp, and Ella Watford, middle blockers Tuva Falk and Jordyn Milhouse, right side Sarah Noto, and outside hitter Eryn Spradley.
"This is the biggest recruiting class we have brought into Tech, but due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we had two classes morphing together and our graduating class is sizeable this year," Phillips explained. The talent level is also very sizeable in this 2025 class. They know they have some big shoes to fill and they are ready for the challenge. This class is all very passionate about Tech and the buy-in from them is already so high, that the sky really is the limit."
Over the next few days, we'll be taking a closer look at each of the newest members of the Golden Eagle volleyball family. Today, we take a look at Ljungby, Sweden native Tuva Falk.
Tuva Falk
Middle Blocker | 5'10
Ljungby, Sweden (Allebergsgymnasiet)
RIG Falkoping / Ljungby Volleyball Clubb (Club)
Falk will come to Cookeville from Ljungby, Sweden after attending Allebergsgymnasiet in Falkoping during her prep career. The middle blocker competed across the national and club stages, representing Sweden for a number of years in international play.
She was a member of RIG Falkoping and Ljungby Volleyball Clubb, helping lead RIG Falkoping to first place finishes in 2022-23 and 2023-24. Falk was a member of the All-Star Team for the U18 National Cup in both 2021 and 2022 and earned another All-Star Team nod in 2024 for the U20 National Cup. Her U17 team represented Sweden by claiming first place in the North European Volleyball Zonal Association (NEVZA) in 2022.
The first Swede to sign with the Tech volleyball team, Falk represents the second-ever Golden Eagle signee from Europe, joining former outside hitter Irem Sile (2013-14), who hailed from Istanbul, Turkey. She is just the fifth international recruit to sign with the program, a club that includes Ashleigh Hancock (2009-13) from Richmond, New Zealand, as well as Nassau, Bahamas natives Vanessa Johnson (1980-83) and Dorothea La-Fleur (1981-84).
"We are so excited to have Tuva join us," Phillips expressed. "It means a lot to us when a recruit chooses to join our family and venture away from home, but in this case, she is traveling quite far indeed. We take that trust seriously and we wouldn't have entered into this relationship if we didn't truly feel that she would enrich our program and add in so many positive ways to our Golden Eagle family. She is playing at a high level now and we can't wait to see that translate to the purple and gold."
