Major shakeup after 1-2 in VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll
K-State’s Izzi Szulczewsk, left, and Liz Gregorski celebrate with fans after upsetting BYU last week/Will Huster Photography Our voters had so many things to consider this week while compiling their VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Poll ballots. Teams in last week’s poll that took losses included Stanford, Washington State...
NCAA volleyball stunners: Arizona St. sweeps Stanford, OSU wins at WSU
Louisville’s Anna DeBeer watches Elena Scott go all out against Miami/Chris Carter, Louisville Athletics On a ground-breaking Sunday for NCAA women’s volleyball when Wisconsin’s tall timber gave viewers an eyeful on a “Big 4” TV network, one of the favorites for the national championship was felled. The...
2023 VolleyballMag Men’s AVP Awards: Miles Partain, Andy Benesh steal the show
Andy Benesh, left, and Miles Partain/Rick Atwood photo A few notes about our 2023 VolleyballMag AVP Awards: The awards are subjective, as awards go, and we enjoy debating them. There was no polling process. The awards were decided on a mixture of stats, finishes, and film from...
Huskers only unbeaten after Citadel falls; Dayton rolls on; B1G wins for MSU, Illini
Michigan State celebrates beating Penn State/Brittney Kimball photo Top-ranked Nebraska, which swept Rutgers, is the lone unbeaten in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball. The Citadel (23-1) won’t run the table, because the Bulldogs lost their SoCon match in five at Western Carolina. Dayton is the first to 25...
Oregon thumps WSU; Texas tops Baylor; K-State beats BYU again; Citadel is 23-0
Washington’s Kiersten Barton plays the ball above libero Grace Zilbert/Stephen Burns photo Oregon, the No. 8 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, repaid the favor at No. 6 Washington State, No. 5 Texas came on strong against Baylor, No. 9 BYU lost against to...
AU volleyball: Red-hot Hentz has a team featuring Dixon, Nuneviller, Betty
Tori Dixon fully expects Bethania De La Cruz to do “Betty things,” meaning that even though the superstar outside hitter will be available for only the last two of three matches in Week 4, that’s bad news for the rest of Athletes Unlimited. Tori Dixon/AU photo Dixon,...
Texas reverse sweeps Baylor; K-State stuns BYU; Waves rule; big Friday slate ahead
Kansas State’s Alyyah Carter hits against the BYU block/Will Huster Photography This is the last time Texas and Baylor play as members of the Big 12. We can only hope that after Texas moves to the SEC next year, the Longhorns still play their rivals from Waco. Thursday...
Trendsetters? Rosenthal (UH), Blanchette (USC), Larson (LBSU) leave HS early college volleyball
Tread Rosenthal Three standout prep volleyball players, — Tread Rosenthal, Caleb Blanchette and Kellan Larson — are starting college early. It’s a trend we’ve seen in women’s volleyball, but this is significant for men’s. All three will miss their senior years of high school volleyball and other...
Star-studded teams win Newport Beach 4-Man Volleyball Invitational; photo gallery
The teams of Alix Klineman, Betsi Flint, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rice and Julia Scoles and Taylor Crabb, Taylor Sander, Nick Lucena, Alex Ranghieri and Todd Rogers won the respective titles this past weekend at the Newport Beach 4-Man Volleyball Invitational. The first-time event was a Who’s...
Tennessee, Florida, Ohio St., Illinois, Cincy among Wednesday winners
Ohio State’s Rylee Rader, left, and Mia Tuman block Northwestern/Ohio State photo Tennessee and Florida won in the SEC, Ohio State and Illinois got Big Ten victories, and Cincinnati won in the Big 12 on a relatively quiet Wednesday in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball. The recaps...
Girls HS Dream Team of the Week: An abundance of volleyball riches
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 the...
DJ Klasnic is living the volleyball dream — and then some
HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA — DJ Klasnic laughs through the friendly jabs. “You guys always make fun of me for being the oldest college player,” says the 28-year-old Serbian who, yes, is still in college, studying computer science and competing for the Westcliff University men’s beach volleyball...
NCAA volleyball: Dayton, OU, FGCU, Southeastern LA win; AVCA poll, POW
Northern Kentucky’s Abby Kanakry tips over the Youngstown State block/Seth Cooper photo Dayton, tied for No. 16 in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, swept Duquesne on Tuesday to improve to 23-2, 10-2 in the Atlantic 10. The Flyers were the only ranked team in action...
Tawa’s Dots: Meaningful state titles, ION others, abstract artistic expression
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 until the last high school state championship in November: • Well, that was fast. In Tennessee, Oklahoma and...
Big Ten Network draws volleyball-record 612K viewers for Wisconsin-Nebraska
The Bob Devaney Sports Center was packed for Wisconsin at Nebraska/Nebraska photo NCAA women’s volleyball hit another TV ratings home run on Saturday night when the ballyhooed showdown between Nebraska and Wisconsin became the most-watched regular-season volleyball match in history. As the nation’s top-ranked teams, both undefeated,...
Women’s pro report: Drews starts hot in Japan; Rettke leads Milano; Samedy sparkles
This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: Japan The Japanese League started the same way as Annie Drews left it in 2021, with Drews powering JT Marvelous to victory. In the first...
Hentz gets to 6-0 as Athletes Unlimited finishes third volleyball week
Aury Cruz, who played for Team Rosenthal, receives serve Monday/Athletes Unlimited photo Although Morgan Hentz hasn’t ripped a kill, made a block, nor even served a single ball, she just might be the Most Valuable Player through the first three weeks of Athletes Unlimited’s volleyball season. Hentz...
Lincoln Arneal of Huskers Illustrated joins our VBM NCAA Zoom
What a week, what a match between Nebraska and Wisconsin, and so much NCAA volleyball to talk about. Lincoln Arneal, who covers Nebraska for Huskers Illustrated and is one of our VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll voters, joins us for our weekly (mostly) NCAA Zoom. Also...
“Stroke-lese:” AVCA’s Kathy DeBoer steals IVHF induction ceremony show
VBM editor Lee Feinswog and the inductees at Friday’s Mayor’s reception after capping the evening with interviews/IVHF photo HOLYOKE, Massachusetts — There’s more to the annual International Volleyball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies than just honoring the newest members. This past weekend we might have heard the...
Paris 2024: Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, updated October 23
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, 2024. We’ll be providing these updates for...