USA Volleyball names 12-player Paris Olympics roster but not lone alternate
USA Volleyball and coach Karch Kiraly announced the 2024 women’s Olympic team roster Wednesday and it includes some of the mainstays from the team that won gold in Tokyo in 2021. It also has new Olympic faces. While some of the slots on the 12-player, one-official alternate...
QUALIFIED! Chase Budinger, Miles Evans punch ticket to Paris Olympic Games
Miles Evans goes all out against France/Volleyball World photo After 17 months and 24 tournaments and God knows how many miles flown, Chase Budinger and Miles Evans’ Olympic race came down to three men crowding around a table over an iPhone in the Czech Republic. Only Evans...
Volley: « Je me suis senti de plus en plus Russe », le libéro des Bleus, Jenia Grebennikov, raconte son aventure en Russie
Le libéro des Bleus a passé trois ans au Zénith Saint-Pétersbourg, dans le pays de ses origines. Arrivé sur place quelques mois seulement avant l'invasion de l'Ukraine, le libéro a honoré son contrat jusqu'au bout. Read More Home Volleyball - actualités ...
The indomitable will of Kelsey Robinson Cook, USA Volleyball’s “fireball”
Kelsey Cook hits against Italy in 2022/Volleyball World photo HERMOSA BEACH, California — It sounds awful, to tell you the truth. Eight hours a day in a gym in Beijing, China. A country you’ve never been to, on a contract you signed because it was the lone...
With Olympic roster intact, USA sweeps Argentina in Volleyball Nations League
Coach John Speraw looks on as Micah Christenson, left, and Max Holt block Argentina’s Luciano Palonsky/Volleyball World photo The USA, with its Paris Olympics roster intact for the first time, swept Argentina on Tuesday to open the second round of the men’s Volleyball Nations League. The 25-23,...
USA men’s Olympic roster set for second round of Volleyball Nations League
USA teammates: Matt Anderson hits against David Smith, left, during action last December/CEV photo As the USA women head back to Anaheim to regroup before revealing its Olympic roster this week and then resuming Volleyball Nations League on June 11, the second round of the men’s...
Kentucky, Louisville, Wisconsin, Nebraska to open NCAA volleyball season; Big Ten updates
The 2024 college volleyball season will now both start and end in Louisville. The AVCA announced Monday that Kentucky, Louisville, Wisconsin and Nebraska will participate in its First Serve Showcase on Tuesday, August 27, at the KFC Yum! Center, also the site of NCAA Division I...
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Ostrava Elite16 to decide final Paris berths
The race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began in February 2023 in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The 2024 season began the first week of March back in Doha, and the final event of the Olympic qualification cycle will be the...
USA falls to Türkiye; Olympic volleyball roster coming this week
Jordyn Poulter sets with one hand as she tries to connect with Dana Rettke/Volleyball World photo by Dana Drambarean, @bet.on.her.collective ARLINGTON, Texas — This is the week. After two rounds of Volleyball Nations League, in which the USA women finished 4-4 and stand in eighth-place in the...
One beach volleyball event left: How remaining teams can qualify for Paris Olympics
Paula Soria watches Liliana Fernandez pass in Poland/Volleyball World photo This weekend’s Volleyball World Challenge event in Stare Jablonki, Poland, the penultimate tournament in the Olympic qualifying period, seemed, to many, to decide the beach volleyball Olympic race. Nothing, however, has been officially decided. Even with Americans Trevor...
“Frustrating loss” for USA women to Poland in Volleyball Nations League
Jordan Larson rolls over the Polish block/Volleyball World photo by Dana Drambarean, @bet.on.her.collective ARLINGTON, Texas — “Frustrating loss,” USA Karch Kiraly said Saturday after his team fell 29-27, 25-22, 20-25, 25-23 to Poland in Volleyball Nations League. “It felt like we were trying to climb out of...
USA sweeps Bulgaria; readies for Volleyball Nations League matches with Poland, Türkiye
Avery Skinner attacks against Bulgaria/Volleyball World photo by Dana Drambarean, @bet.on.her.collective ARLINGTON, Texas — Things ramp up here Saturday and Sunday for the USA women’s volleyball team in Volleyball Nations League. After sweeping Bulgaria on Friday to improve to 4-2 and move up to sixth place in...
Jacksonville State standout Kindermann making her mark VNL for Germany
Lena Kindermann attacks against Poland/Volleyball World photo by Dana Drambarean, @bet.on.her.collective ARLINGTON, Texas — Germany may be taking its lumps in the Volleyball Nations League, but Lena Kindermann is having a breakout tournament. “They say she came out of nowhere,” Germany coach Alexander Waibl said. Perhaps, but not...
Volleyball Nations League: Gray, Canada overpower Germany; USA plays Bulgaria
Canada’s Vicky Savard passes against Germany/Volleyball World photo ARLINGTON, Texas — Canada took another step towards clinching its first Olympics spot since 1996 with a sweep of Germany on Thursday in Volleyball Nations League. Earlier at UT Arlington, Poland swept Korea and then Türkiye beat Serbia in...
Deahna Kraft, Lexy Denaburg advance in Stare Jablonki Challenge on “nothing to lose” mindset
There the scores stayed, stuck at 10-9 in the third set between two young American teams with a great deal of interest back home and no way of knowing what was happening save for the slow tick of the online scoreboard. Yet there was no more...
USA rests as China, Italy, Bulgaria, Türkiye notch Volleyball Nations League wins
China’s Yingying Li hits against the Netherlands triple block/Volleyball World photo The USA women opened the second round of Volleyball Nations League with a four-set win Tuesday over Canada, but then had two days off. Friday they’ll begin three matches in three days by playing Bulgaria,...
Erik Shoji: The beauties, challenges of life as the best libero in the world
HERMOSA BEACH, California — There would be no daycare services needed. Not for Dave and Mary Shoji. They had a free one available, any day of the week, Monday-Sunday. Plenty of babysitters, too. Lots to do. It just so happened that those baby-sitters were a...
Plummer, Jordans lead USA to Volleyball Nations League win over Canada
Kathryn Plummer attacks against Canada/Volleyball World photo Kathryn Plummer had 14 kills, Jordan Thompson had 13 and Jordan Larson 12 as the USA women beat Canada 25-22, 25-17, 23-25, 25-20 Tuesday to open the second round of Volleyball Nations League play. The outcome in UT Arlington’s College...
Grateful for time spent with Bill Walton, some volleyball ties, and a favorite story
Bill Walton/UCLA photo Like so many of us who covered basketball the past five decades, we interviewed, got to know and couldn’t help just loving Bill Walton. And we all had stories. The greatest player when healthy. The Grateful Dead. The best guy. My favorite, a little...
Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings: Chase Budinger, Miles Evans nearly lock up Paris berth
Chase Budinger, left, and Miles Evans, last weekend in Espinho/Volleyball World photo The race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began in February 2023 in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The 2024 season began the first week of March back in Doha, and...