Tawa’s Girls Club Dots: Stormy weather in Florida; 3 more qualify in Boston
This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag’s weekly look at 10 things in club volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Look for Dots every Tuesday through Junior Nationals this summer. • Another 18s qualifier happened this past weekend. Three more teams locked themselves...
Olympic beach volleyball probabilities for every team remaining in race to Paris 2024
Midway through a podcast series in which I break down the race to the Paris Olympics, I took a page out of Seth Davis’ book. Davis is a tremendous basketball writer for The Athletic, and as March Madness approaches and bracketology ramps up its fervor,...
Beach volleyball season begins: Doha Elite16 main draw for Trevor Crabb, Theo Brunner
On a blustery but beautiful Manhattan Beach morning last month, Trevor Crabb was musing about the finer things in life. “There isn’t much better,” he said, “than moving from the qualifier straight into the main draw.” One of the few pleasant surprises in contention? An upgrade from...
International volleyball: Plummer leads Conegliano; Dani Drews wins in Japan; Mims stays hot for Nantes
View this post on Instagram A post shared by 【公式】NECレッドロケッツ (@nec_rr_official) This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: Champions League Kathryn Plummer had 12 kills, two blocks and two aces for Imoco...
UCLA, Stanford, USC win; Vibe sweep in Pro Volleyball
Zach Rama hitting for UCLA vs the USC block of Kyle Paulson and Caleb Blanchette at Pauley / Andy Gordon photo Fourth-ranked UCLA rewarded past greats among a crowd of nearly 5,000 at venerable Pauley Pavilion with a...
Long Beach, Hawai’i win; Orlando tops Rise in Pro Volleyball
Long Beach’s Aidan Knipe, Lazar Bouchkov and Clarke Godbold put up the triple block against Penn State/Jim Wolf photo Second-ranked Long Beach State, which beat visiting No. 9 Penn State, and No. 3 Hawai’i, which swept visiting Sacred Heart, were among the winners Friday in NCAA...
Volley: « J’adore les challenges difficiles », les confidences de Mauricio Paes, nouveau sélectionneur de l’Iran
L’ancien coach de Tourcoing, actuellement en Ukraine, Mauricio Paes va entraîner l’équipe nationale d’Iran de volley. L’équipe de France affrontera la sélection perse le 21 juin lors de la troisième phase de la VNL. Le technicien explique son choix à RMC Sport. Read More Home Volleyball -...
Ohio State, UCLA win; Bell gets 29 kills in Pro Volleyball victory
Ohio State’s Shane Wetzel powers up with one hand against Lewis/Ohio State photo Ohio State won its sixth match in a row as the No. 6 Buckeyes swept No. 14 Lewis in the MIVA, where they hold a three-game lead in the win column. Fourth-ranked UCLA took...
GCU new No. 1 in NCAA men’s volleyball; BA tops ConfCarolinas
McKendree’s Nathan Flayter attacks against Lindenwood/Madelyn Stephen photo Catching up on NCAA men and the Pro Volleyball Federation for the past few days: Grand Canyon, the nation’s only unbeaten team, is No. 1 in the AVCA men’s volleyball poll for the first time. Belmont Abbey has a one-game...
Girls club volleyball Dream Team: Bardin, Doolan, Telly, Sandberg, Pierce, Robinson, Bell, Reed
Metro 15 Travel trio, from left, Alli Robinson, Kaniyah Ball and Alexa Telly Every Wednesday during the club season, VolleyballMag recognizes a Dream Team of eight girls volleyball players (15s to 18s age groups) who were standouts the weekend before. The team, most weeks, consisted...
Michael Gervais, and The First Rule of Mastery
EL SEGUNDO, California — In May of 2019, Michael Gervais touched a nerve. Quite a few of them, actually. For 12 months, though, he just didn’t know it, not to the extent that the editors at the Harvard Business Review did. In his first contribution to...
Men’s pro volleyball report: Averill, Projekt Warsaw win CEV Challenge Cup
Taylor Averill and Projekt Warsaw beat Vero Volley Monza to win the CEV Challenge Cup/projektwarsawa.waw.pl photo This is Blair Lambert’s men’s professional volleyball report, featuring Americans around the world and foreigners who played for NCAA programs. Got a note about a player or a comment for...
Tawa’s Girls Club Dots: Life is (but not in volleyball) a bag of chocolates
This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag’s weekly look at 10 things in club volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Look for Dots every Tuesday through Junior Nationals this summer: • In all the mania surrounding the Triple Crown NIT over President’s Day...
Volley: Nantes et Levallois visent l’exploit européen contre Novara et Chieri
Ce mercredi soir, les deux équipes en tête du championnat de France féminin devront renverser des montagnes. Nantes défie Novara (20h à la Trocardière) en finale retour de la Challenge Cup pendant que Levallois-Paris St-Cloud affronte Chieri (20h Palais des Sports Marcel-Cerdan) en demi-finale retour...
International women’s volleyball: Rivers leads Stuttgart; big week for Skinner
Lindsey Ruddins attacks for Scandicci against Cuneo, including Anna Stevenson-Hall This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: Champions League In the only upset of the quarterfinal round, Krystal Rivers had 22 kills and...
Beach volleyball season opens as UCLA rallies in Hawai’i, upsets abound in Florida
Riley Wagoner of Hawai’i hits against UCLA’s Kenzie Brower/UH photo UCLA was the last team standing after three chaotic days in Honolulu as the NCAA beach volleyball season opened with a bang. Also, Arizona State bedeviled the competition in Tampa and TCU dispatched two ranked foes...
UCLA, GCU, Harvard win in NCAA men’s volleyball; Fury gets PVF victory
Stanford’s Ryan DuRoss hits against the Pepperdine triple block/Sarah Otteman photo UCLA bounced back at BYU, Grand Canyon stayed unbeaten, and Harvard knocked off Princeton on Saturday in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball. In the Pro Volleyball Federation, the Columbus Fury swept at the Vegas Thrill. Recaps and...
BYU, Pepperdine, Lindenwood gets men’s volleyball upsets; San Diego wins in PVF
Long Beach State setter Aidan Knipe (5) blocks Max Roquet of Lewis/Jim Wolf photo BYU and Pepperdine pulled off MPSF upsets and Lindenwood had one in the MIVA on Friday in NCAA Division I-II men’s volleyball. In the Pro Volleyball Federation, San Diego won the first set...
Volleyball today: Hawai’i sweeps, busy men’s Friday on tap; PVF’s Columbus, Orlando win
Missouri S&T’s Nate Meyer hits against the Hawai’i block of Tread Rosenthal, left, and Kurt Nusterer/UH photo Third-ranked Hawai’i routed visiting independent Missouri S&T on Thursday to improve to 11-1. The Rainbow Warriors were the only ranked teams in action on day with three NCAA Division...
Girls club volleyball Dream Team: Drapp, Stiernagle, Owens, Smith, Quest, Anyanwu, Omoruyi, Martin
Favor Anyanwu/Matt Smith photo This is a special edition of our weekly girls club national Dream Team. This Dream Team recognizes this observer’s opinion of the top performers at the Triple Crown NIT last weekend in one team of eight, as follows: Two setters One right side Two outsides Two...