Girls club volleyball Dream Team: Mottola, Harris, Miller, Vander Wal, Thompson, Andrews, Tarnow, Leimbach
Triangle overcame illness to qualify in 17 Open at Big South Every Wednesday during the club season, VolleyballMag recgnizes 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...
Miles Partain, Andy Benesh, and the mindset shift that changed everything
HERMOSA BEACH, California — Miles Partain thought he was a loser. Those three AVP wins? Three Elite16 medals, a collection of every color? The stunning, back-to-back victories over Anders Mol and Christian Sorum to win the Gstaad cowbell? The accolades lavished upon him by his peers:...
PVF’s Orlando signs Fields; NCAA men, beach volleyball, AVCA updates
Marin Grote of Grand Rapids blasts through the Atlanta block of Anna Lazareva, left, and Shelly Fanning/Rise photo The Pro Volleyball Federation leads off this report that includes NCAA men’s volleyball, NCAA beach volleyball, and the AVCA news of the week. Skylar Fields, second in the NCAA...
Tawa’s Club Volleyball Dots: Column this week comes with a Qualifier
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. • Last week was the busiest by far of the qualifier season, with...
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Brazilian men’s race nearing a golden end
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...
International volleyball: Taylor Mims, Jaelyn Keene lead Nantes to French Cup title
This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most leagues are finishing their regular seasons and/or playoffs are underway: France Nantes earned the first trophy in club history by sweeping Mulhouse to win the French Cup. Taylor Mims and Jaelyn Keene...
Career and family: Siena coach Asque-Favia makes tough choices to pursue playing dreams
Jamaica and Simone Asque-Favia, far right, celebrate winning the Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association Senior Championships in Suriname last summer Simone Asque-Favia is the third-year volleyball coach at Siena College in upstate New York. She was an all-ACC player at Virginia and after playing professionally in Cyprus,...
Andre and George continue Brazil gold rush at Saquarema Challenge
Andre and George celebrate a point in the Saquarema gold-medal match/Volleyball World photo SAQUAREMA, Brazil — They’re still the kings, Andre Loyola and George Wanderley. No, they may not have performed up to their lofty — especially when playing at home in Brazil — standards last weekend...
UCI, Hawai’i, LBSU, UCLA win in men’s volleyball; Atlanta, Omaha stay atop PFV
UCLA’s Sean McQuiggan hits over Stanford/Andy J. Gordon photo Third-ranked UC Irvine bounced back against CSUN, No. 5 Hawai’i had to go the distance to beat UCSB — which got 32 kills from Geste Bianchi — top-ranked Long Beach State won its 10th in a row,...
Death Volley Invitational: LSU stuns USC, but then UCLA sweeps Tigers to go 4-0
LSU’s Ellie Shank goes all out against UCLA/LSU photo BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — As the sun set Saturday on the Death Volley Invitational, LSU coach Russell Brock considered the ups and downs his LSU beach volleyball team had experienced the previous two days. The Tigers lost twice...
Coupe de France: Nantes s’offre son premier sacre face aux joueuses de Mulhouse
Un premier titre pour Nantes: les joueuses de l'Ouest ont offert au club son premier sacre après une finale à sens unique contre Mulhouse en Coupe de France de volley (trois sets à zéro). Read More Home Volleyball - actualités ...
CSUN upsets UCI in men’s volleyball; Orlando tops Columbus in PVF
UCLA’s Cooper Robinson blocks over Stanford’s Nathan Lietzke/Lilli Yazdi photo CSUN, below .500 entering the match but ranked No. 16 in the AVCA coaches poll, knocked off No. 3 UC Irvine on Friday in Big West men’s volleyball. The other top teams in action — No. 1...
No. 1 USC, No. 2 UCLA and No. 3 Stanford go 2-0 at Death Volley Invitational
Stanford’s Brooke Rockwell goes all out against FAU/Sean Cripple photo BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — LSU could not have asked for more. An absolutely perfect Good Friday here, temps in the low 70s without a cloud in the sky. Just like Southern California. The best field ever for an...
MIVA frontrunners all win; Omaha tops Grand Rapids in Pro Volleyball Federation
Ninth-ranked Ohio State and No. 12 Ball State survived five-set MIVA matches Friday in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball, while in the Pro Volleyball Federation, the Omaha Supernovas went overtime in two of their four sets in a victory over the Grand Rapids Rise. The recaps...
Loaded field: Top 6 teams in AVCA Poll highlight Death Volley beach tourney at LSU
Ashley Pater goes all out in USC’s home match last week against Hawai’i /Will Chu Photography This week’s NCAA beach volleyball report takes an in-depth look at the colossal Death Volley Invitational, talking with LSU coach Russell Brock about how the mega-event came together and breaking...
Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour stays in Brazil with Saquarema Challenge
SAQUAREMA, Brazil — There is much that will look the same this week on the Beach Pro Tour. This weekend’s Saquarema Challenge, which begins with Thursday’s qualifier, is held not far from last week’s in Recife — a few-hour flight to Rio de Janeiro, a...
Girls club volleyball Dream Team: Moser, Haury, Reeder, Redd, Spencer, Young, Hoecke, Hopkins
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...
Tim Brewster, Kyle Friend, and the most unique relationship in beach volleyball
HERMOSA BEACH, California — How many times had Tim Brewster asked Kyle Friend to play a beach volleyball tournament with him? Ten? Fifteen? Twenty? They laugh when thinking about the number, the exact total of which remains unknown. The only one that actually matters is the...
Pro Volleyball Federation news and recaps; AVCA, NCAA beach, NCAA men updates
In this report, we catch up on the Pro Volleyball Federation — which announced the site of its inaugural championship series — NCAA beach, USA Volleyball summer national teams and NCAA men. Pro Volleyball Federation Not surprisingly, the first-year league will play its semifinals and final in...
Tawa’s Club Volleyball Dots: Yesiree for TAV! Hooray for NPJ!
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. • Last weekend was a busy one in the world of juniors volleyball. That...