This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag’s weekly look at 10 things in club volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Читать дальше...
In this all-things-volleyball notebook, we’ve got USA Volleyball Nations League rosters, Pro Volleyball Federation updates, news about USA players internationally and a nod to the upcoming NCAA men’s tournament. Volleyball Nations League Both the USA women’s and men’s teams have submitted their 30-player rosters for VNL. For each round, coaches Karch Kiraly and John Speraw, […]
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By Cassie Langdon for the NCAA 148 percent. That’s how much NCAA women’s beach volleyball has grown over the past 10 years. The 2013-14 season had 39 teams. In 2023-24 that total is up to 97 teams, all with the same end goal: Win a national championship. Seventeen teams will be selected for the 2024 […]
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Every Wednesday during the club season, VolleyballMag.com will recognize a Dream Team of eight girls volleyball players (15s to 18s age groups) who were standouts the weekend before. Players are selected EXCLUSIVELY from nominations. To nominate, coaches will need to get on our bulk email list (info at bottom). The team, most weeks, consists of […]
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HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — They called her Susie, and for seven weeks, Susie, a 27-year-old American working a farm in rural Sicily, lived a life that Zana Muno had long dreamed of. She’d be on a bus by 8 in the morning, piling in with 13 others from around the globe, ranging from 70-year-old women […]
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In the penultimate week of the collegiate beach volleyball season, our report features a conference-by-conference breakdown of the tournaments that will determine the automatic qualifiers in the NCAA’s National Collegiate Beach Championship, a 17-team, single-elimination tournament May 3-5 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Equally important, we dissect the chances of the logical contenders for the eight […]
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This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag’s weekly look at 10 things in club volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Look for Dots every Tuesday through Junior Nationals this summer. • Our Dots focus this week takes us back to Philly and Dallas, where NEQ and Lone Star held Open qualifiers with […]
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Variety is the main talking point when it comes to the 2024 VolleyballMag Boys Fab 50 list that honors the top 50 senior-age players in the country. This year, a record 18 states (including Rhode Island, which is likely making its first Fab 50 appearance) are represented in a sport that continues to grow in […]
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The Pro Volleyball Federation inaugural regular season is nearly finished for the first-place Atlanta Vibe, who hold a five-game lead in the win column and one in the loss column over the Omaha Supernovas. Atlanta has two matches left, but the San Diego Mojo still have eight matches remaining to the 24-match season. Here’s how […]
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The idea was to medal in Guadalajara. For Nina Brunner and Tanja Huberli to play their first Challenge event in two years. To feel the pressure of being the one seed, the expectations of a medal. Of getting every team’s best shot, and to hand it right back, that their best wasn’t good enough. It […]
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Defending-champion UCLA got the top seed Sunday when the NCAA’s National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship bracket was announced. Long Beach State is No. 2, Grand Canyon — the team that beat UCLA in the MPSF title match — is No. 3, followed by UC Irvine and Penn State. And those two will play what will […]
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