Nebraska takes the best shot from Arkansas, wins in four
Taylor Head’s Arkansas attack is smothered by Merritt Beason, right, and Andi Jackson/Nebraska photo Top-seeded Nebraska is headed back to the NCAA Tournament national semifinals after the top-seeded Huskers knocked out ninth-seeded Arkansas 26-24, 25-14, 21-25, 25-23 on Saturday night. Nebraska (32-1) will play Pittsburgh (29-4) —...
Pitt gets first spot in Tampa as Panthers pull reverse sweep — again! — on Louisville
Aiko Jones of Louisville hits against the Pitt block of Chiamaka Nwokolo, left, and Torrey Stafford/Louisville photo There was no way. No way it could happen again. But it did. Pitt, down two sets to none on its home floor against ACC rival Louisville, didn’t just bounce back. No, the...
GOLD AGAIN! Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth join rarified air with Beach Pro Tour Finals win
Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss celebrate in Doha/Volleyball World photo The conversation had to be had. One of the most difficult of Taryn Kloth’s life. The 6-foot-4 blocker and her partner, the diminutive Kristen Nuss, had already assembled the most decorated season in American beach volleyball since...
Volley: Donat dit non à Poitiers
Une page se tourne au SPVB. Brice Donat ne sera pas sur le banc poitevin la saison prochaine, comme il l’a expliqué dans un communiqué transmis à RMC Sport, ce samedi en début d’après-midi. Explications. Read More Home Volleyball - actualités ...
Previews, TV info, things to know for Saturday’s NCAA volleyball regional finals
Wisconsin’s Temi Thomas-Ailara winds up against Penn State/Wisconsion photo Just eight teams remain, with spots in the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship national semifinals on the line. There are four NCAA Tournament regional finals Saturday, all finishing on ESPNU. But only the first will start on ESPNU. That’s...
Travis Mewhirter’s 2023 Ultimate Beach Volleyball Gift Guide
THE NORTH POLE — In the space between our final Thanksgiving plate being cleaned, the overwhelming urge to take a fat and happy nap surging to the forefront, and pies of all varieties being dished onto the kitchen island — sweet potato, chocolate, apple, all...
Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth march into Beach Pro Tour Finals semis
The look from Kristen Nuss said it all: A closing of the eyes, a sigh, her head collapsing into the awaiting arms of her partner, Taryn Kloth. Relief. “That’s how I’d read that look as well,” Rich Lambourne said on the commentary for Volleyball World TV. The look...
VNL 2024 schedule announced; USA women have Texas stop, men play in Canada
Poland celebrates winning the 2023 men’s VNL title The USA women get to play in America again next summer and the USA men are back in Canada for Volleyball Nations League. Volleyball World announced the 2024 VNL schedules for the important international tournament that precedes the Olympics. The...
LOVB names coaches, assigns players; PVF adds 2025 franchise
A bevy of news items from the upstart domestic League One Volleyball and Pro Volleyball Federation groups crossed my desk over the last few days. The most significant ones came from LOVB, which is scheduled to begin its season in November of 2024. The PVF...
8 left: Louisville vs. Pitt; Arkansas vs. Nebraska; Oregon vs. Wisconsin; Texas vs. Stanford
Jillian Gillen goes all out as Arkansas teammate Courtney Jackson looks on/Matt Smith photo Which four teams will advance to Tampa for the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship? Saturday’s four regional finals are set, all can be seen on ESPNU, and the times are Eastern: 4 p.m....
Big win pushes Nuss-Kloth into Beach Pro Tour Finals playoffs
Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth didn’t have calculators on hand during their final match of pool play during the Beach Pro Tour Finals. They weren’t sure if their 21-15, 21-15 victory over Katja Stam and Raisa Schoon of the Netherlands was enough to win their...
« Le Paris Volley ne se refuse pas », Matijasevic le nouveau coach parisien explique ses choix
Nommé mercredi entraîneur d’une équipe du Paris Volley en difficulté dans le championnat (11e après 5 défaites consécutives), Nikola Matijasevic a succédé à Fabio Storti. Le madré technicien franco-serbe a expliqué à RMC Sport son choix et ses objectifs, avant le derby vendredi soir contre...
Powerful, balanced Oregon ready for “Big Ten championship” at Wisconsin
Oregon’s Mimi Colyer gets up and hits against Hawai’i/Stephen Burns photo Armed with a five-gun arsenal, Oregon is mustered for a frontal assault on the stronghold it will engage next year in the Big Ten. The NCAA women’s volleyball tournament round of 16 on Thursday sees the...
NCAA volleyball round of 16 begins: Schedule, women coaches, key transfers
Eve Rackham Watt and Jenaisya Moore in Tennessee’s win over Western Kentucky/Andrew Ferguson, Tennessee Athletics Will there be a new champion for the third time in four years? History indicates otherwise as the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament heads into Thursday’s round of 16. Just 12 programs...
Savvy seniors, fab freshmen lead Kentucky back to NCAA final 16
Reagan Rutherford/Marissa Gilchrist, UK Athletics The answer to the question has become almost cliche. At the very least, it’s coachspeak. “So, coach, tell me what you like about this team?” “Well, we have a nice mix of older players and younger players that should help to make us...
Tough start in Doha for USA at season-ending Beach Pro Tour Finals
The final event of the season, which is, in some ways — see: financial, with $150,000 to the winning team — the biggest of the 2023 year, could hardly have started worse for the USA. The only victory in the five matches played by American teams...
Mason Briggs: The trailblazing libero who amassed a 100K-plus following
HERMOSA BEACH, California — The foundation of Mason Briggs’ entrepreneurial spirit, the one that has helped him amass nearly 130,000 followers on Instagram and is turning the libero position — libero! — into something resembling cool, began like any young entrepreneur’s might. With duct tape wallets. “I...
International men’s report: Olympian-laden Champions League battles
This is Blair Lambert’s VolleyballMag.com men’s professional volleyball report, featuring Americans around the world. Got a note about a player or a comment for Blair? Email him at blairlambert2@gmail.com Not only was there another full set of fixtures in European cup competitions for a second consecutive...
Catching up with Avery Skinner, NCAA champ at UK, pro in Chieri, Italy
Italian pro volleyball player Avery Skinner was a star for Kentucky when it won the 2020 (spring 2021) NCAA volleyball title. She transferred to and finished her career at Baylor before turning pro, where she’s played two seasons for Beziers in France before moving to...
Indiana Wesleyan wins NAIA national volleyball championship
Indiana Wesleyan Second-seeded Indiana Wesleyan completed a 38-0 season as the Wildcats defeated top-seeded Northwestern College on Tuesday to win the NAIA national volleyball championship. Eva Joldersma had 25 kills, including the match winner, in the 20-25, 25-20, 13-25, 25-17, 15-10 victory in Sioux City, Iowa, before...