Surprise! Gambia drops and Chase Budinger, Miles Evans get late World Champs bid
TLAXCALA, MEXICO — They were in but they weren’t. Through the Great Instagram Grapevine, Chase Budinger and Miles Evans had heard, via Ed Keller, their good friend and makeshift coach for this week’s Beach World Championships, that the team of Sainey Jawo and Jahara Koita of...
Texas, K-State, The Citadel win; busy NCAA volleyball Friday on tap
Madisen Skinner of Texas hits off the Kansas block/Emma Andrus, Texas Athletics Texas, the No. 8 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, beat AVCA No. 17 Kansas in four and visiting Kansas State beat AVCA No. 18 Baylor in five as the Big 12...
Anderson, USA men close to clinching Olympic bid with win over Slovenia
The USA men after beating Slovenia/Volleyball World photo The veteran did it again and now the USA men are probably a victory away from clinching a spot in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Matt Anderson, the 36-year-old opposite, had 14 kills, two aces and a team-high eight digs...
Beach World Championships begin Friday in Mexico with huge Olympic implications
The first matches on the 2022 Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour took place at the Plaza de la Constitucion in Tlaxcala, Mexico/Vollyball World photo The 2023 Beach World Championships begin on Friday in Mexico, in a sprawling, three-city, 10-day festival of beach volleyball that will spread...
Athletes Unlimited returns, serves up pro volleyball season openers Friday
Bethania De La Cruz celebrates winning AU’s 2022 volleyball season/AU photo Athletes Unlimited will tip off its third season on Friday with a 44-player roster that includes six members who are part of the USA national-team program and scads of names that are familiar to volleyball...
NCAA volleyball wins for Wisconsin, Vols, Arkansas, Purdue, WKU, Marquette, UCF
Alabama’s Alyiah Wells pushes against the Tennessee block/Crimson Tide Photos, UA Athletics There were 15 NCAA Division I women’s volleyball matches Wednesday, nine ended in sweeps and five went five sets. That included victories by Wisconsin, the No. 1 team in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media...
Girls HS Dream Team: McGuire, Raymond, Snodgrass, White, Witherspoon, Watson, Fulton, Falk
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. Most weeks, the eight-girl Dream Team will consist of the following: Setter Setter, S/RS or RS OH OH MB MB Libero DS Players...
Beauty, challenges of husband-wife/player-coach Kelly and Jordan Cheng dynamic
HERMOSA BEACH, California — The first thing you notice about the criticisms of Kelly Cheng is that none of them make much sense. Then again, fleetingly few of them ever have. When Cheng and Sara Hughes announced their landscape-altering partnership last fall, forming what would quickly become...
NCAA volleyball news — including wins by Dayton, WKU, Wyoming — notes, polls, photos
Utah Tech’s Kennedi Knudsen dials in as she blasts the ball past the Southern Utah block of Allison Rohrer/Stan Plewe, Utah Tech Athletics Dayton, the No. 20 team in the AVCA top 25, Western Kentucky and Wyoming were among the winners Tuesday in NCAA Division I...
USA men crush Tunisia, biggest challenges ahead in qualifying tourney
The USA puts up a triple block, from left, of Micah Christenson, Jeff Jendryck and Thomas Jaeschke against Tunisia’s Mohamed Ben Youssef/Volleyball World The USA men improved to 4-0 in the Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier with a 25-11, 25-12, 25-14 rout of winless Tunisia on...
Tawa’s HS Dots: Macs are Mighty; Francis is Fearless
Mother McAuley mighty at Asics Challenge 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 week until the last high school state championship in November: • On Thursday,...
Kayla Caffey revs up her pro volleyball career with Athletes Unlimited
Kayla Caffey attacks against Baylor during the 2022 Texas season/Texas photo With an infectious laugh and flashing a broad smile, Kayla Caffey admitted she was “embarrassed” that her collegiate career spanned seven years “because I played for soooo long.” But its culmination as an NCAA champion with the...
USA men beat Türkiye to get to 3-0 in Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier
The USA men after beating Türkiye/Volleyball World photo Things could not have started better for the USA men in the Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier. Tuesday in Tokyo, the Americans came away with a 25-17, 26-28, 32-30, 25-20 victory over Türkiye. It left the USA 3-0 after previously...
Shaved heads and more: Citadel, WSU, Penn St. coaches join the VBM NCAA Zoom
We had a great time visiting with The Citadel coach Dave Zelenock, whose Bulldogs are off to a program-best 16-0 start; Washington State coach Jen Greeny, whose Cougars are No. 4 in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll after winning at Oregon; and Penn State...
Paris 2024: Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, updated October 2
Ondrej Perusic and David Schweiner celebrate at the Paris 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 the qualification period will...
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Bouncie Allie Holland and her No. 14 Penn State teammates celebrate at Minnesota/Penn State photo Week two had the same result as the first at the top of the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll: Wisconsin edged Nebraska by one point for the No. 1 spot. But there...
NC State, Northwestern get huge wins; WSU tops Oregon; Citadel now 16-0
Washington State’s Katy Ryan attacks at Oregon/Mark Hoffman Photography The VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll voters had a lot to consider when the volleyballs stopped bouncing this past weekend. On Sunday alone, unranked NC State knocked off last week’s No. 5 Louisville; No. 7 Washington State won...
Ana Patricia-Duda win Paris Elite16 gold beach volleyball “battle” over Nuss-Kloth
On Saturday evening, after a pair of semifinal demolitions at the Paris Elite16 kudos of Ana Patricia Silva and Duda Lisboa (21-16, 21-12 over the Netherlands), and Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth (21-13, 21-17 over Italy), Rich Lambourne wondered aloud on Volleyball World TV what...
Penn St. tops Minnesota; Nebraska rallies at IU; Cincinnati, Iowa St. win
Minnesota’s Melani Shaffmaster gets up to set against Penn State/Christopher Mitchell photo No. 15 Penn State kept its Big Ten “0” intact before a hostile house of more than 5,000 in a tense four-setter with No. 13 Minnesota in the only match involving teams ranked in...
Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth cruise to Paris Elite16 finals on chocolate and pizza
It must be the chocolate. Or maybe it’s the pizza. Perhaps the black magic of coach Drew Hamilton back home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That’s what Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth will tell you, anyway, when asked about the secret sauce to their undefeated run at this week’s...