Olympics Beach: Cuba smothers Partain-Benesh in volleyball opener
7 blocks for Jorge Alayo in Cuba’s upset over USA’s Miles Partain, Andy Benesh The demise of Andy Benesh and Miles Partain in their first match of the Paris Olympic Games can be summed up in two words: Jorge Alayo. The 23-year-old Cuban blocker, making his Olympic...
Mewhirter picks EVERY Paris Olympics beach pool-play volleyball match
Beach volleyball at the Paris Olympics begins Saturday at the base of the Eiffel Tower. In the next week, there will be 72 pool-play matches, beginning with the USA’s Miles Partain and Andy Benesh vs. Cuba’s Jorge Alayo and Noslen Diaz. I’ve predicted how I think...
Complete USA Volleyball indoors, beach Paris Olympics schedule
The USA has six teams at the Paris Olympics, two indoors and four beach. By the time action concludes Monday night, all of them will have competed. The men’s beach team of Andy Benesh and Miles Partain get things going at 2 p.m. Paris time Saturday. At...
Paris presents deepest women’s Olympic volleyball field ever
The USA women huddle during a Volleyball Nations League match/Volleyball World photo HERMOSA BEACH, California — On and on and on the list went, to the point that Tri Bourne, sitting down with USA Volleyball outside hitter Kelsey Robinson Cook one day and middle Dana Rettke...
De La Cruz, Hentz back with Athletes Unlimted, which returns to Mesa, AZ
Bethania De La Cruz celebrates winning the 2022 Athletes Unlimited volleyball season/AU photo Athletes Unlimited Pro Volleyball will compete again this year in Mesa, Arizona, and some of its key players are returning for the pro volleyball venture’s fourth season. AU reported that all 30 matches will...
Olympics beach volleyball: Chase Budinger, Miles Evans, and an American underdog story
HERMOSA BEACH, California — Chase Budinger and Miles Evans have embraced their story. They’re underdogs of a distinctly American variety: confident enough in themselves to seek an Olympic bid despite the vast majority of the beach volleyball world saying it wasn’t going to happen — and...
Women’s Olympic Beach Volleyball Preview: USA heavy favorites to podium in Paris
HERMOSA BEACH, California — Brian Cook runs an unbiased, deeply metric-based volleyball analytical site called TruVolley. While Cook, an American who once competed for USA Volleyball and is married to Olympic gold medalist Kelsey Robinson-Cook, clearly has a leaning towards the USA, his program does...
Men’s Olympic Beach Volleyball Preview: It’s Sweden and Norway vs. the Field
When Anders Mol and Christian Sorum won 18 gold medals over a stretch of 26 tournaments from 2018-2023, including a World Championship and a record-breaking four consecutive European Championships, it was widely considered to be a run of dominance the beach volleyball world was unlikely...
Speraw, USA Volleyball men ready for Paris: “I want them to finish on top”
Rested and ready. “This year the focus has been to be at our best when we step on the court in Paris,” USA men’s Olympic volleyball coach John Speraw said. “This is a veteran team and they need to be feeling rested and strong and healthy....
New format, unpredictable field spice Paris Olympics women’s volleyball
In addition to defending-champion USA, there are 11 other women’s teams competing for volleyball gold in the Paris Olympics. This is a look at each of them. These Olympics feature a new and different format. Gone are the six-team pools, replaced with three pools of four...
Un volleyeur hongkongais condamné pour avoir insulté l’hymne chinois
De par ses "actes perturbateurs", un Hongkongais de 22 ans a été reconnu coupable vendredi d'avoir insulté l'hymne chinois lors d'un match de volley opposant les Chinoises aux Bulgares il y a un an. Read More Home Volleyball - actualités ...
Marist’s Vidovic 2024 VolleyballMag Boys High School Coach of the Year
Chicago Marist High School boys volleyball coach Jordan Vidovic Great coaches in sports do the little things great — the intangibles that never see the light of day in the public’s eye. Chicago Marist High School boys volleyball coach Jordan Vidovic is a textbook example. “The thing that...
Loyola of L.A. 2024 VolleyballMag Boys High School Team of the Year
The champion Cubs/Jason Cruz, Loyola High School of Los Angeles photo It never hurts to have the national player of the year on your team. But for Loyola High School of Los Angeles, UCLA-bound Sean Kelly was not the sole reason for its success. “They bought into the...
Sean Kelly tops 2024 VolleyballMag Boys High School All-Americans
Sean Kelly It’s not Groundhog Day in July, though it might seem that way with the familiar faces that are part of the 2024 VolleyballMag Boys High School All-American awards. For Loyola High School of Los Angeles, it’s a doubleheader win, with the Cubs going back to...
Tawa’s Club Volleyball Dots: Junior Nationals recap brings 2024 (and my career) to an end
This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag’s look at 10 things in club volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully interest you. We finish up our look at the 2024 club volleyball season by recapping the 15s through 17s age groups at USA Volleyball’s Junior National...
League One Volleyball announces 2025 pro venues, six-team schedule
Fort Bend EpiCenter League One Volleyball (LOVB) has announced its playing venues for its six teams that will compete in the inaugural season in 2025. LOVB has also set its schedule, starting January 8 when LOVB Salt Lake plays at LOVB Atlanta, and finishing with the LOVB...
Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Bobner: Doing it their own way to qualify for Paris Olympics
GSTAAD, Switzerland — Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Bobner are, by their own admission, “not morning people.” Yet there they were, sitting at a café in Brasilia, Brazil, at 7:30 in the morning — though in reality their bodies had no Earthly clue what time it was,...
Back-to-back sweeps for USA women in pre-Olympics matches with Netherlands
The USA women finished a three-match series with the Netherlands with back-to-back sweeps, coming away with a 28-26, 25-18, 25-17 victory Sunday at Long Beach State’s Pyramid in a pre-Olympics volleyball tuneup for both teams. Annie Drews led with 15 kills and four blocks. Kathryn Plummer...
Megan Kraft, Terese Cannon take Vienna bronze for second straight Elite16 medal
Megan Kraft, left, and Terese Cannon after winning Vienna Elite16 bronze/Volleyball World photo Two months ago, Megan Kraft was a left-side blocker, wearing a USC Trojans tank-top, competing against NCAA talent on an NCAA stage. On Saturday afternoon in Vienna, Austria, Kraft was, as she has been...
USA women top Netherlands; Olympic volleyball teams play again Friday
Annie Drews, left, and Dana Rettke block Nika Daalderop/Jim Wolf photo The USA women’s Olympic volleyball team came away with a 22-25, 25-20, 22-25, 25-10, 15-12 victory Wednesday over the Netherlands in the first of three exhibition matches in Long Beach State’s Pyramid. The same teams play...