Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth shake off early-season slump with silver in Brazil
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...
USC x 4: Trojans win NCAA beach volleyball title again
USC dogpiles/Mark Rigney photo The official tally of the national-title dual was 3-0, but little came easy for USC against UCLA. USC’s Nicole Nourse stuffs UCLA’s Kenzie Brower to win the match/Mark Rigney photo The wonder Women of Troy completed an unprecedented four-peat in the NCAA Beach Volleyball...
Jim Wolf’s best photos from the UCLA-Long Beach volleyball title match
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. Veteran photographer Jim Wolf, a...
LSU makes waves, but it will be USC vs. UCLA in beach volleyball
LSU’s Emily Meyer with the one-handed dig against UCLA/Stephen Burns photo 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. But when the sand in Gulf...
Back-to-back for UCLA as Bruins top Beach for NCAA volleyball title
UCLA wins the 2024 NCAA title/Jan Kim Lim photo 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...
Top-seeded UCLA set to play No. 2 Long Beach in NCAA men’s volleyball final
UCLA’s Cooper Robinson hits the roll over the UCI block/Jim Wolf photo 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...
LSU upsets TCU as NCAA beach volleyball quarterfinals set
I UCLA’s Peri Brennan goes all out against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi/Mark Rigney photo 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. Then, in the last of nine...
UCLA, Long Beach survive wild NCAA men’s volleyball semifinals
Simon Torwie leads the Beach celebration/Jim Wolf photo 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...
NCAA beach volleyball: Staggering odds in favor of USC, UCLA or Stanford
Top-seeded USC won the final 2024 Pac-12 beach title 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. USC was 2-1 against...
National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship match-by-match breakdown
Long Beach’s Savannah Standage hits against Cal Poly’s Piper Ferch in the Big West Championship/Mark Rigney photo 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...
Crabb-Brunner survive China-Brazil travels, advance into Brasilia Elite16 main draw
Trevor Crabb attacks in Brasilia/Volleyball World photo 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. Fifty hours in...
Beach in USA needs Volleyball World, USAV, AVP to go big before L.A. 2028
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. If beach...
VNL, PVF, NCAA and more: Volleyball ramblings with Emily Ehman, Lee Feinswog
Why not? We hadn’t done a Zoom in a while and wanted to talk some volleyball. So Emily Ehman, the volleyball analyst for the Big Ten Network, Volleyball World TV and ESPN, and VolleyballMag editor Lee Feinswog caught up, talking about the USA national teams and...
Abby Van Winkle: The rookie whose volleyball career is only up from here
HERMOSA BEACH, California — Beginning in the spring of 2019, it would all be downhill for Abby Van Winkle. Never mind that she was still just a teenager, a bright-eyed and more than promising freshman blocker for UCLA. Never mind that she was still floating on...
Sweep-stakes: UCLA, UCI, Long Beach, GCU all win 3-0 in NCAA men’s volleyball
UCLA’s Ethan Champlin hits past the Fort Valley State block/Jim Wolf photo The higher seeds not only won Tuesday, but all four victorious teams swept in the NCAA’s National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship at Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid. Thursday’s semifinals are set: No. 1 UCLA (24-5) vs....
Tawa’s Club Volleyball Dots: TAV takes advantage to win Natty in 18 Open
AZ Sky is the 18 National National Champion 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 through Junior Nationals this summer. • Junior OH Suli Davis delivered the final swing on...
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Grimalt cousins charging after Xiamen 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...
NCAA men’s volleyball quarterfinals begin; surging Mojo win in 5 in PVF
In this report: — The NCAA’s National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship begins Tuesday at Long Beach State with four quarterfinal matches. — The San Diego Mojo came away with a five-set victory over the visiting Orlando Valkyries and are one step closer to capturing the fourth and...
Houlihan, Hawks, Winder talk NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship
We gathered to talk about Tuesday’s National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Championship that begins with Tuesday’s quarterfinals in Long Beach State’s Walter Pyramid. The matchups, which can only be seen on NCAA.com: 11 a.m. Pacific — No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 8 Fort Valley State1:30 p.m. Pacific —...
International volleyball: Great season-ending finishes for many Americans
From left, Kelsey Robinson Cook, Madi Bugg, Khalia Lanier, Kathryn Plummer/Filippo Rubin, LVF photo Last week was a tremendous one for American women playing professional volleyball overseas. A large group of them are coming home with championships in their respective countries as we wrap up our...