The Atlanta Vibe haven’t played since May 2, but don’t worry about libero Morgan Hentz being rusty. No, while her team was back home preparing for the
The USA women’s quest to repeat as Olympic champions begins with the first leg of Volleyball Nations League. After a brief time together in the gym in Anaheim, the American contingent headed to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for four matches.
It’s not lost on Delaynie Maple that Indiana volleyball coach Steve Aird is a lifelong, suffering Toronto Maple Leafs fan. If you don’t follow hockey, think Chicago Cubs until they finally won the World Series in 2016.
The Pro Volleyball Federation still has three more matches remaining to its inaugural regular season, but they will have no bearing on the playoffs that start Wednesday in Omaha. The top-seeded Atlanta Vibe (19-5), who have been off since May 2, play the fourth-seeded Grand Rapids Rise (11-12) in the first semifinal.
There were no surprises Friday when coach John Speraw and USA Volleyball announced their 12-player roster for the Paris Olympics. The team consists of nine players who are Olympics veterans and three who will play in their first games.
VolleyballMag photographers Mark Rigney, Stephen Burns and Will Chu shot thousands of photos last week at the NCAA’s National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
League One Volleyball (LOVB), which begins its inaugural pro season in 2025, announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement with ESPN to present some of its pro matches across its linear networks and digital platforms.
ANAHEIM, California — The respective USA Olympic volleyball coaches, Karch Kiraly and John Speraw, will both end up in Paris the third week of July, but their teams are taking different paths to get to the Olympics.
SAN DIEGO — On February 19, the San Diego Mojo got swept for the third time to start the inaugural Pro Volleyball Federation. “We just wanted to win a set at that point,” veteran Ali Bastianelli admitted.
The race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began in February 2023 in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The 2024 season began the first week of March back in Doha, and the final event of the Olympic qualification cycle will be the Ostrava Elite16, which ends on June 9.
ANAHEIM, California — The Southern California Indoor Volleyball Hall of Fame honored its sixth, seventh and eighth induction classes Sunday before a sell-out audience at Anaheim’s Hwy 39 Event Center.
Three playoff spots are clinched and one remains with just seven matches left in the Pro Volleyball Federation inaugural season. The Atlanta Vibe (19-5)
On the surface, it was easy to wonder (and many did): What was going on with Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth? The No. 2 team in the world had supposedly gone through whatever a sophomore slump might look like for them, and theirs resembled nothing of the sort.
Story by USC sports information The top-seeded and No. 1-ranked USC beach volleyball team (37-5) defeated second-seeded No. 2 UCLA (35-7) by a 3-0 count to win the 2024 NCAA championship at Gulf Beach Place on Sunday.
LONG BEACH, California — UCLA’s four-set victory Saturday over Long Beach State in the NCAA’s National College Men’s Volleyball Championship match provided great action for both the crowd of 3,804 in Long Beach’s Pyramid and also a national audience on ESPN.
For the second day in a row, LSU made the biggest waves at the NCAA’s National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship, pulling off the most spectacular upset in the tournament’s history.
LONG BEACH, California — Zach Rama and UCLA weren’t going to give Long Beach State a chance at another reverse sweep. The sophomore from Phoenix had all three of his kills in UCLA’s final five points Saturday as the Bruins came away with a 25-21, 25-20, 27-29, 25-21 victory in the NCAA’s National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship.
LONG BEACH, California — If it’s filled to capacity Saturday when top-seeded UCLA plays No. 2 Long Beach State for the NCAA’s National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship, the crowd in The Walter Pyramid will have about 10 times the population of Meunster, Saskatchewan.
The first 8 hours and 30 minutes of a morning-to-late-afternoon opening-day marathon in the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship had plodded along with precious few highlights, much less high drama.
LONG BEACH, California — In the end, No. 1 will play No. 2. But what rocky, obstacle-strewn paths UCLA and Long Beach State took to survive and advance to get to Saturday’s title match of the NCAA’s National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship.
The odds are overwhelming that USC, UCLA or Stanford will emerge as the winner of the NCAA’s National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship. Their records paint a clear-as-day picture: USC and UCLA went 3-3 against each other.
A national champion in college beach volleyball will be crowned this weekend on the white sand in Gulf Shores, Alabama. It’s the last installment of the NCAA’s National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship on the Redneck Riviera before the tournament moves to “Surf City,” Huntington Beach, California.
It was a simple itinerary. Nothing more than, oh, to use Theo Brunner’s wild ride as an example, Xiamen to Hong Kong to Los Angeles to Chicago to Sao Paulo to Brasilia for this week’s Brasilia Elite16.
Finn Taylor. Sean Scott. Bobby Corvino. Please remember these names, beach volleyball fans. They are the power brokers behind the scenes, men who will ultimately set the course of beach volleyball for the next four-plus years in the United States, with the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics looming large.
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