18 states, led by California, represented in 2024 VolleyballMag Boys Fab 50
Sterling Foley/Volleyball World photo 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...
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Cuba continues rising with Tepic bronze
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...
Pro Volleyball Federation notebook: Regular season heads into home stretch
Claire Chausee of the Grand Rapids Rise is rejected by the Thrill’s Layne Van Buskirk, left, and Hannah Maddux/Jordan Anders, Vegas Thrill photo 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...
Brunner-Huberli win “most intense” first gold medal at Tepic Elite16
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...
UCLA top seed in NCAA men’s volleyball tourney; UCI gets other at-large bid
GCU celebrates beaeting UCLA to win the MPSF/Ken Williams photo 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...
GCU, Long Beach, Penn St., Ohio St., Belmont Abbey into NCAA men’s volleyball tourney
GCU wins the MPSF/Ken Williams photo Three quarters of the NCAA Tournament field is set, with six automatic bids earned Saturday during conference championships for the MPSF, SIAC, MIVA, Conference Carolinas, EIVA and Big West. Most notably, Grand Canyon upset UCLA in the MPSF and Long...
Volley: l’AS Cannes à une victoire de l’accession en MSL
Après sa victoire 3-1 à Ajaccio lors du match 1, l’AS Cannes accueille l’équipe corse qui a été son dauphin en saison régulière (dimanche, 17h). La Croisette retient son souffle à l’aube d’une nouvelle ère financière et sportive autour du mécène australien Craig Carracher. Read...
Fort Valley in; 5 NCAA men’s volleyball bids up for grabs Saturday
UCI’s Hilir Henno and Alaka’i Todd of Hawai’i joust/UCI photo Fort Valley State is going to the NCAA’s National Collegiate Men’s Championship. The Wildcats, who breezed through the SIAC with a 10-0 regular-season record, won that conference’s tournament Friday by sweeping Central State to claim the SIAC’s...
Volleyball today: Lindenwood stuns Ball St.; Rise win in PVF; USC tops UCLA in beach
UCLA’s Merrick McHenry being Merrick McHenry against USC/Ken Williams photo Fourth-seeded Lindenwood stunned top-seeded Ball State on Thursday in the MIVA semifinals, bouncing the Cardinals in five sets to advance to Saturday’s championship match. The Lions, in the title tilt for the first time, play third-seeded...
USC ousts BYU in MPSF; Charleston scores EIVA upset; Vegas wins in Pro Volleyball
USC’s Jack Deuchar hits past the BYU block of Luke Benson, left, and Gavin Julien/Andy J. Gordon photo Jack Deuchar went off for a career-high 30 kills and sixth-seeded USC knocked third-seeded BYU out of the MPSF Championship. It sets up Thursday’s semifinals at USC pitting...
World’s best back on the beach at this week’s Tepic Elite16
As the Beach Pro Tour season has settled into its early-season stride, hitting consecutive stops in Brazil and another in Mexico, something still felt amiss. Namely, the best players. Almost all of them. Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth have played just four matches this season, Kelly Cheng...
Girls club volleyball Dream Team: Reisman, McGalliard, Thigpen, Schara, Tarnow, Forrest, Philpot, Davidson
Most Wednesdays during the club season, VolleyballMag recognizes a Dream Team of eight girls club 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...
How Norway’s Beach Volley Vikings are changing beach volleyball
HERMOSA BEACH, California — In the spring of 2015, Mathias Berntsen and Anders Mol, cousins united by blood as much by a hereditary passion for the sport of volleyball, sat down and mapped out the future. There was much to discuss. The members of Norway’s senior national...
NCAA men’s volleyball: King, Mount Olive advance; conference-by-conference report
UCLA’s Merrick McHenry, hitting over the GCU triple block, is the MPSF player of the year/Andy J. Gordon photo Sixth-seeded King upset third-seeded Erskine and fourth-seeded Mount Olive came back to beat fifth-seeded Barton in five as the Conference Carolinas Championship got underway Tuesday. More tournaments begin...
NCAA beach volleyball: Another battle Thursday between No. 1 UCLA, No. 2 USC
In a beautiful scene on Alki Beach, Boise State’s Anika Christensen, who is from nearby Gig Harbor, hits against Georgia State as teammate Aris Vetter looks on/Stephen Burns photo Another UCLA-USC showdown looms large Thursday as the NCAA beach volleyball regular season winds down. It comes on...
Tawa’s Club Volleyball Dots: A Challenge, a Showdown and more
Michigan Elite had a second straight great weekend 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 each week through Junior Nationals this summer. • In Louisville last weekend, the...
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Crabb-Brunner take big leap with Guadalajara gold
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...
Great feedback: Additions to the VolleyballMag Girls Beach Fab 50 lists
The response/reaction to the 2024 VolleyballMag Girls Beach Fab 50 and Underclassmen to Watch lists has been impressive, particularly when it comes to the non-senior prospects list. Keep in mind, both the Fab 50 and Underclassmen to Watch lists were voted on by a panel of...
International volleyball: Tia Scambray named Swiss MVP as NUC Viteos takes playoff lead
Savino Del Bene Scandicci celebrates its first Italy finals trip/Filippo Rubin, LVF photo This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. The women’s professional seasons are winding down around the world and, as leagues finish, many players are heading home...
“Comeback Kings” Theo Brunner, Trevor Crabb win Guadalajara Challenge gold
The men’s podium, Germany’s Lukas Pfretzschner and Sven Winter, left, Theo Brunner and Trevor Crabb, and Brazil’s Evandro Oliveira and Arthur Mariano/Volleyball World photo GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Theo Brunner had accepted it. While he and Trevor Crabb wouldn’t get a podium finish at the Guadalajara Challenge,...