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...
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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 —...
Women’s pro report: Frantti, Thompson lead VakifBank; Annie Drews has big week in Japan
This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: Türkiye VakifBank earned a four-set win over rival THY as Ali Frantti led with 12 kills and four blocks and Jordan Thompson had 12 kills...
International men’s report: Upsets; Champions League, CEV Cup, country results
Micah Christenson set Zenit Kazan to a win over previously undefeated Fakel/volley.ru photo This is Blair Lambert’s VolleyballMag.com weekly 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 There was a full...
Volley: Héléna Cazaute, des plages de Gruissan au Milan avec Egonu, itinéraire d’une enfant de la balle
Les Tricolores qui brillent à l’étranger (2/5). Après Théo Faure et avant Lucille Gicquel, RMC Sport est partie à la rencontre la capitaine de l’équipe de France, Héléna Cazaute. Aujourd’hui au Vero Milan (actuel 3e du championnat), l’un des plus grands clubs européens, l’Audoise évoque...
Pro Volleyball Federation: TV announcement soon; Las Vegas gets its Thrill
The debut of the Pro Volleyball Federation — the latest attempt to establish a viable professional women’s indoor league in the United States – is less than two months away and one significant order of business has yet to be disclosed. Television. As in, will the PVF...
Fairfield: “That’s maybe one of the headlines for this team. They found a way to win.”
Fairfield celebrates winning the MAAC title/Olivia Frzop photo MAAC-champion Fairfield opens NCAA Tournament play at 13th-seeded Purdue, which finished third in the Big Ten, on Thursday. Also in West Lafayette, Indiana, Ohio Valley-champion Eastern Illinois plays Marquette of the Big East. The winners play Friday. Nancy Somera...
Paris 2024: Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, updated November November 27
Duda and Ana Patricia celebrate a fifth gold medal at the Joao Pessoa Elite16/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...
VBM Super 16: Our final media poll heading into the NCAA tourney
Eva Hudson and Purdue held the No. 12 spot this week This is the last VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll of the season and we give high fives and thank our voters for all the hard work to make this happen every week. It’s been a great...
NIVC announces 32-team field, schedule that begins Wednesday
Nataly Garcia and her Southern Illinois Salukis play host to DePaul to open the NIVC/Missouri Valley photo Play begins Wednesday in the 2023 National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) that starts with eight host schools. Click here for the bracket. In bracket order, here are the matchups, locations...