Olympics bound! USA beats Germany to clinch spot in Paris 2024 Games
The full USA Volleyball contingent in Lodz, Poland, after beating Germany/Volleyball World photo Annie Drews played like a woman possessed. And now her USA team — which gold in the Tokyo 2021 Olympics — possesses a spot in the Paris 2024 Olympics. The Americans lost the first set...
NCAA volleyball: Xavier stuns Creighton; BYU thumps Baylor; 36 kills for Rivest, Cardona
Loyola’s Karlie McNabb hits against Dayton/Loyola photo Unranked Xavier beat Creighton for the first time, knocking off the No. 11 Bluejays in five Saturday in the Big East. It was Xavier’s first win over a ranked team since 2007. In the only matchup between ranked teams, No....
USA loses to Poland, must beat Germany in Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier
The fate of the previously unbeaten USA women in the Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier will come down to the last day. That’s because the Americans lost to Poland on Saturday before the final match of the day in Lodz, Poland, when Italy played Germany. Poland’s 27-25,...
Tampa Bay area courting volleyball history as it prepares for NCAA Championship
By Joey Johnston for the NCAA From start to finish, the Tampa Bay area has become the epicenter of NCAA Division I volleyball this season. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. When the Tampa Bay Sports Commission hosted the Road 2 Tampa Bay Invitational in late August —...
NCAA volleyball: Texas Tech upsets KU; Florida tops Auburn; Wisconsin, Nebraska, Louisville, Pitt win
Louisville’s Anna DeBeer hits against Syracuse/Dior Sy, Louisville Athletics Texas Tech beat visiting No. 17 Kansas in a Big 12 reverse sweep on Friday night and No. 3 Florida had to come back to win in overtime at No. 24 Auburn. Three teams — Stonehill, Bethune-Cookman and...
USA women 5-0 after topping Italy in Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier
The USA women are like a victory away from clinching a Paris 2024 Olympic berth after beating Italy in four sets Friday in Lodz, Poland. The Americans have two matches left, against Poland on Saturday and Germany on Sunday. Earlier in Pool C on Friday, Poland...
WSU sweeps Washington; Arizona St. stays unbeaten; Minnesota, Iowa St., WMU win
Iowa’s Delaney McSweeney rises above the Minnesota block/Brian Ray, hawkeyesports.com Seventh-ranked Washington State swept visiting Washington on Thursday and Arizona State is 13-0 after sweeping Arizona in their Pac-12 openers, but Wyoming took its first loss when the 11-1 Cowgirls were beaten in five at Utah...
Girls HS Dream Team: Kofe, Aksu, Quest, Segal, Anderson, Ogbechie, Greene, Little
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...
NCAA volleyball: Pitt, BYU, GT, Tennessee, Penn St., A&M, Indiana, USC win
USC’s Tyrah Ariail, left, and London Wijay roof UCLA’s Iman Ndiaye/Andy J. Gordon photo There were 23 NCAA Division I women’s volleyball matches Wednesday. Just five of them did not end in sweeps, including Georgia Tech’s four-set, comeback ACC win at Clemson, USC’s five-set Pac-12 win at...
4-0: Day off before USA plays Italy, Poland, Germany with Olympic berth at stake
Korea’s Sohwi Kang hits into the block of Lauren Carlini, left, and Dana Rettke as Jordan Thompson looks on/Volleyball World photo The USA women kept themselves in the driver’s seat with a four-set victory over Korea on Wednesday in the Road to Paris qualifier in Lodz,...
Tawa’s HS Dots: Breakdown, predictions Durango Fall Classic grabs spotlight
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: • It’s finally here! The 64-team Durango Fall...
Jon Alvarez, Volleyball Life, and “volleyball people doing cool stuff for volleyball”
HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA — Jon Alvarez’s professors at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business had to have been tired of it. Every single time they assigned Alvarez to write a business plan, he’d come back with the same two ideas: “It was either...
NCAA volleyball: Stanford, Baylor win; Horizon opens play; big comeback for UNLV
Fourth-ranked Stanford opened the final season of the Pac-12 with a sweep Tuesday over previously unbeaten Cal, No. 18 Baylor swept Stephen F. Austin, there were five Horizon League winners as that conference got underway, and UNLV pulled off a reverse sweep to win its...
Super NCAA volleyball Sunday produced more outstanding TV ratings
Florida drew a program-record crowd of 10,323 in the O’Connell Center for its match with Wisconsin/Maddie Washburn photo The Nielsen ratings hit for the NCAA women’s volleyball matches televised on Sunday afternoon by national-cable-TV channels, and they produced unexpected, head-scratching results. The match with the largest audience...
USA women top Slovenia in four in Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier
The USA women improved to 3-0 with a 3- victory Tuesday over Slovenia in the Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifier in Lodz, Poland. Annie Drews had 11 kills, eight digs and an ace as 12 of the Americans on the 14-player roster saw action in the...
NCAA volleyball news — EIU’s Larregui Lopez gets 25 kills — notes, stats, trivia and tidbits
Giovana Larregui Lopez of Eastern Illinois hits against the Southern Indiana block of Paris Browning, left, and Abby Bednar/EIU photo Random thoughts as the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball conference season kicks into full gear on a Tuesday when unbeaten — unbeaten! — Cal plays host...
The most fun NCAA Zoom as ND begins ACC play; USM readies for Sun Belt
We couldn’t make it work until Monday night, but our NCAA volleyball Zoom with the Big Ten Network’s Emily Ehman — who is calling an ESPN match this week — Southern Miss coach Jenny Hazelwood and Notre Dame coach Salima Rockwell along with VolleyballMag.com editor...
Big change: Beach Olympian Sponcil goes indoors, signs with PVF’s Grand Rapids
Sarah Sponcil makes a hustle play during the Tokyo Olympics/Ed Chan, VBshots.com The next, perhaps surprising, stop on Sarah Sponcil’s volleyball career, as a highly touted player on the upstart Grand Rapids Rise in the inaugural season of the Pro Volleyball Federation, began in an unlikely...
Volley : Un point de folie aux Etats-Unis
Nebraska a inscrit un point incroyable face à Kentucky ce dimanche pour revenir à 12-10 dans le 4e set, puis de s'imposer 4 sets à 1. Read More Home Volleyball - actualités ...
Reverse-sweep Sunday: No. 1 Wisconsin, No. 5 Stanford win after falling behind 0-2
SMU’s Natalie Perdue, left, jousts with LSU’s Jade Demps/Matt Smith photo One of the greatest weeks in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball history ended Sunday with dramatic finishes. Four days after No. 1 Wisconsin and Marquette set the NCAA indoor attendance record on the same night that...