NCAA women’s volleyball season: “Exciting, unpredictable, and historic!”
With all eyes on NCAA college volleyball this season, it’s no surprise that fans and teams would be closely watching as the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball committee reveals its top 10 during the regular season. The committee placed Wisconsin, Nebraska and Florida at the top...
Miles Evans, Chase Budinger win gold they’ve been “waiting for all year”
There was little that suggested that Miles Evans wanted to be in China this past week. His social media featured regular pictures of Hermosa Beach — whose translation in Spanish is “beautiful” — living up to its name. Gorgeous sunsets. Colors everywhere. Idyllic temperatures. These...
NCAA volleyball: Wisconsin routs Illini; WKU, WMU win conference titles
Wisconsin’s Anna Smrek attacks against Illinois/Zach Schuster photo Every ranked team in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball action Saturday swept, except for AVCA No. 22 Houston, which beat UCF in four in the Big 12. That included second-ranked Wisconsin, which pummeled Illinois in the Big Ten. Some regular-season...
FSU, Georgia Tech create ACC logjam with upsets; Nebraska escapes at Penn St.
Penn State’s Jess Mruzik hits against the Nebraska block of Becka Allick, left, and Harper Murray/Caleb Craig photo Florida State, a team that received votes in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll but didn’t receive any — zilch — in the AVCA top 25 — is...
Yale, in regular-season driver’s seat, hopes to repeat as Ivy tourney champ
Erin Applebaum talks to her Yale team/Yale photos Erin Appleman never cared much for the idea of an Ivy League tournament. The way she saw it, each team played all the others in the league twice — home and away — and that was a fair...
Wait…why is everyone forfeiting?
We hope you didn’t set your alarms last night. Hope you didn’t plan on staying up for Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner’s second round match of pool at the Haikou Challenge against Switzerland’s Adrian Heidrich and Leo Dillier. Or Chase Budinger and Miles Evans’ second rounder...
Kentucky battle: Edmond, Linnehan 1-2 as AU Volleyball enters final round of play
Leah Edmon/AU photo Leah Edmond’s priority through four-fifths of the Athletes Unlimited volleyball season was to run a clean race. Now that the final lap is here, her focus has shifted to crossing the finish line in first place as the final round of matches begins...
Big ACC day ahead; Texas, SE LA, Utah St., Sac St., SFA, Denver, Omaha, Pepperdine win
Gracie Duplechein, left, and Hannah Brewer of Southeastern Louisiana put up the block against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi/Sam Conners, SLU Athletics. On Thursday, the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball spotlight shined on some mid-majors who made statements, including Southeastern Louisiana (Southland), Utah State (Mountain West), Sacramento State...
Hamel: What we know, don’t know about record-smashing NCAA volleyball TV ratings
Michigan had plenty to celebrate when it beat Ohio State at home Sunday and plenty of TV viewers saw it happen/Michigan photo What we do know about the record-smashing TV numbers posted Sunday for NCAA women’s volleyball is that 1.659 million watched the landmark telecast on...
NCAA volleyball: Georgia upsets Arkansas; Wisconsin tops Purdue; Baylor gets past OU
Georgia’s Kacie Evans hits into the Arkansas block of Taylor Head, left, and Sania Petties/Arkansas photo There were just 11 NCAA Division I women’s volleyball matches Wednesday, but they provided plenty of excitement, especially for Georgia. The Bulldogs not only upset Arkansas, but swept the visiting...
Girls HS Dream Team of the Week: Lagemann, Miller, Harp, Opatz, Keeter, Moore, Washington, Walker
Isabel Miller Just about every week during the high school season, provided there are enough nominees from varsity coaches, VolleyballMag.com will recognize a Dream Team of high school volleyball players who were standouts the weekend before. The goal is for the eight-girl Dream Team to consist of...
Pro Volleyball Federation sets first serve: Atlanta at Omaha on January 24
Could Brooke Nuneviller, shown here in Turkiye last spring, have the first PVF serve when her Omaha team plays host to Atlanta? The first serve in the history of the Pro Volleyball Federation will be Wednesday, January 24, when the Atlanta Vibe visits the Omaha Supernovas. It’s...
Israelis on NCAA volleyball teams play on while dealing with a harsh reality
Santa Clara junior outside hitter Oren Abutbul/Santa Clara Athletics In the early morning hours of October 7, sirens wailed in Jerusalem, warning citizens to take cover as missiles launched by Hamas troops headed toward Israel. At about the same time, Hamas soldiers stormed blockaded areas along...
Volleyball Mailbag: Does Tri regret dumping Trevor? AVP streaming; TKN
HERMOSA BEACH, California — After a dismal, 0-3 performance at the World Championships for Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk, coupled with a fourth-place finish for USA rivals Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner, it wasn’t hard to guess what the brunt of questions on this week’s...
Miami’s Condit to retire after 40 years; AVCA Poll, POW; NCAA volleyball recaps
UCSB’s Grace Wuischpard, left, and Cal Poly’s Kate Slack joust/Tomas Gomez photo Carolyn Condit will retire after 40 seasons at Miami, the Oxford, Ohio, school in the Mid-American Conference. Conduit and Sam Houston’s Brenda Gray are the longest-tenured NCAA Division I women’s volleyball coach. More on...
Paul Sunderland, Arizona St. coach JJ Van Niel join the NCAA Zoom
Paul Sunderland, the ESPN analyst, joined us from the beach in Malibu. JJ Van Niel, the first-year head coach whose 21-3 Arizona State team has become one of the big stories of the NCAA volleyball season, was driving to get one of his kids. Emily...
Tawa’s HS Volleyball Dots: Rock star teams, players and … a rock star coach
Kristen Pontes-Christian gets posterized for Pitman in what she thought was her last match as coach. Nope! 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. Look for Dots every Tuesday...
Women’s pro report: Cook, Plummer, Lanier, Conegliano win Supercoppa; 35 kills for Parsons
Imoco Conegliana wins the Supercoppa/Filippo Rubin,LVF photo This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: Italy Imoco Conegliano earned its first trophy of the season by beating Milano for the Italian Supercoppa. Kelsey Robinson...
International men: Pro seasons underway for USA men, including Anderson in Türkiye
Matt Anderson has established himself early at Ziraat Bankasi/tvf.org.tr 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 After a marathon summer for the USA in which...
Kentucky’s Edmond, Linnehan top AU Volleyball leaderboard after Week 4
Emma Willis hits past the block of Alli Linnehan, right, and Shelly Fanning/Jade Hewitt, AU photo As the stars of Athletes Unlimited volleyball spin into the home stretch of its five-week sprint, two former Kentucky collegiate bluebloods have put a few lengths between them and the...