From Short People to kicking around the NCAA volleyball round of 16
Creighton setter Kendra Wait/Creighton photo We’re breaking it down as we enter the last weekend before the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship. Here’s the schedule: All times Eastern No. 5 Louisville (26-4) vs. No. 12 Creighton (29-4), noon, ESPN2 No. 1 Nebraska (30-1) vs. Georgia Tech (24-6), 2 p.m.,...
Women’s pro report: Rettke leads Milano in Champions and Italian leagues
This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: Champions League Milano claimed control of Pool A by easily sweeping VakifBank (25-17, 25-17, 25-16) as Dana Rettke had 10 kills, hit .833, and had...
Eight matches Thursday: Breaking down the NCAA volleyball round of 16
Madisen Skinner and Texas play Tennessee at Stanford/Matt Smith photo There are 16 teams left in the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament and they have a combined 75 losses. The majority of them — with some notable exceptions — are to other teams in this remaining...
Tina Graudina, Anastasija Samoilova win first gold, leap up Olympic beach rankings
The podium at the Nuvali Challenge/Volleyball World photo The Olympic race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began in February in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The final event is yet to be determined, but the qualification period will conclude on June 9,...
Volley : « Il essaie de nuire à mon image », guerre des nerfs à Poitiers entre l’entraîneur et celui qui voudrait prendre sa place
Après une décennie sur le banc de l’Alterna-Stade Poitevin, l’entraîneur Brice Donat dresse pour RMC Sport le bilan de son action. Le technicien en profite pour esquisser l'avenir qu’il souhaite encore écrire à Poitiers, malgré les rumeurs. Read More Home Volleyball - actualités ...
NCAA volleyball round of 16 set as Stanford survives, seven others also advance
Nebraska put up the triple block of, from left, Bergen Reilly, Andi Jackson and Ally Batenhorst against Mizzou/Nebraska photo The NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament round of 16 is set, but not before there was some late-Saturday night excitement. Second-seeded Stanford took a 2-0 lead over...
Thanks to TCU, Penn St., GT, and more, another freaky Friday in NCAA volleyball
Oregon’s Morgan Lewis hits past the Hawai’i block of Caylen Alexander, left, and Amber Igiede/Stephen Burns Throughout this NCAA Division I women’s volleybal season, Fridays were usually something to behold. In these roundups we called them freaky Fridays. The NCAA Tournament opened Thursday with 16 matches that...
Volley (F): « Saisir sa chance à l’étranger », Gicquel se confie sur son parcours
L’Italie et la Turquie après la France. Pour sa quatrième saison, Lucille Gicquel (1m89, 26 ans) met ses qualités physiques au service des clubs du Vieux Continent. Après Théo Faure et Héléna Cazaute, la pointue de l’équipe de France féminine de volley s’est confiée sur...
NCAA volleyball: WMU thumps Auburn as No. 7 seeds lose; no major upsets as tourney begins
Oregon’s Kara McGhee can only chicken wing as teammate Hannah Pukis and Southeastern Louisiana’s Ansley Tullis look on/Stephen Burns photo Western Michigan not only knocked out Auburn, it opened play Thursday by sweeping the Tigers right out of the NCAA Tournament. There were no other significant upsets...
Skylar Fields poised to become NCAA kills leader as USC opens NCAA play
Skylar Fields hits out of the back row in a match early this season against UC Davis/USC Athletics Consider these numbers: USC has 1,613 kills this season. Skylar Fields has 586 of them. Her next closest teammate, Tyrah Ariail, has 210. Fields led the Pac-12 in kills with 66 more...
Healthy, high-flying, surprising FSU set for Poole’s Arkansas NCAA homecoming
Coach Chris Poole in a Florida State timeout For the past decade, veteran coach Chris Poole has been striving to get Florida State back to the top of the ACC. It was a spot the Seminoles occupied in 2009, 2011 — when they went to the...
NCAA volleyball first-round: ESPN+ with no early matches, plenty of overlap
Logan Case leaped for joy when Western Michigan won the MAC title. The Broncos play the first match of the NCAA Tournament against Auburn/Ashley Huss, WMU photographer One can only wonder why the NCAA is not starting the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament until mid-afternoon...
Tawa’s HS Dots: Mater Dei’s Golden State win clinches natty; N. Allegheny, Sioux Falls Christian extend dynasties
This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag.com’s weekly look at 10 things in high school volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. I apologize for not bringing Dots to you last week. There was a family emergency. We finish up the 2023 fall...
EIU caps remarkable turnaround with first NCAA volleyball tourney trip since 2001
Eastern Illinois wins the Ohio Valley Championship/EIU photos After chewing up and spitting out five coaches over 15 years, the women’s volleyball program at Eastern Illinois fell off a cliff in 2019. The toothless Panthers went 3-26 and 1-15 in the low-major Ohio Valley Conference with an...
Daniel “Frito” Freitas: The content machine who escaped the 9-5 to “do fun” for a living
HERMOSA BEACH, California — Daniel Freitas’ dream job, the one he has labeled as “doing fun” for a living, began as one might expect: Abject misery. He’d taken all the right steps. Checked all the boxes. Got his bachelor’s degree at California Baptist University. Could have...
NCAA volleyball: Conference awards; notes, nuggets galore as tourney begins Thursday
Texas outside Madisen Skinner is the Big 12 player of the year/Texas photo The NCAA Divsion I women’s volleyball tournament begins Thursday with 16 matches, including all four of the regional No. 2 seeds — Kentucky, Oregon, Texas and Louisville — and No. 1 Wisconsin. The other...
Volley: opéré de l’épaule en décembre, Lawani prolonge deux ans avec Monza
Ibrahim Lawani, le pointu international français du Vero Monza, dans le championnat italien, s’est blessé il y a quelques semaines à l’épaule. En exclusivité pour RMC Sport, le Parisien évoque son opération et son avenir alors que se profilent les Jeux olympiques 2024. Read More Home Volleyball...
Florida SW’s Alarcon, Cowley’s Bonomi, Dallas-Eastfield’s Davis top VBM NJCAA All-American teams
Florida SouthWestern State wins the 2023 NJCAA Division 1 Championship Jim Dietz is an NJCAA Hall of Fame coach who led Lincoln Land community College to three consecutive final fours. His blog on coaching has more than 20,000 readers. Dietz led our panel of coaches and...
Get In Your Votes!
Ready, Set, Predict! Our VolleyballMag 2023 Division I Tournament Bracket, brought to you by Bison, Inc., is live and ready for your vote. Voting is open until the start of the semifinal matches, but only those 18 and over with entries in by 4 p.m. Eastern on...
Resurgent Omaha one of three Nebraska teams in NCAA Division I volleyball field
Matt Buttermore talks to his Omaha team before playing Nebraska/Omaha photos By Greg Echlin for VolleyballMag.com There was hardly a better way to play your third match of the season than outdoors with 92,003 fans looking on — the highest attended women’s sports event in history —...