NCAA volleyball: Landfair to Nebraska; transfers galore; coaching carousel spins on
Our holiday hiatus is over, but volleyball didn’t care. Not even on January 1, when the rest of the sports world was focused on football. No, on Monday the 2022 Big Ten player of the year and a first-team VolleyballMag.com All-American, Taylor Landfair, said she was transferring...
Women’s pro volleyball report: Mims, Keene lead Nantes into first in France
This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts. Many pro leagues are on winter breaks, but there was plenty of action involving Americans. We’ve also got a list of NCAA players...
Pro Volleyball Federation camps to open; O’Neal to Columbus; USAV partnership
Volleyball fans should brace themselves for culture shock as the startup Pro Volleyball Federation embraces the cutthroat dynamic of American professional sports. Training camps across the PVF crank up this week and they will operate similarly to those in pro football, basketball and baseball: Not everybody signed...
UnderArmour Next match features top college-bound volleyball talent
Asia Thigpen passing in practice/uanextvolleyball Instagram Some of the nation’s top high school volleyball seniors will play Tuesday in the Under Armour Next All-America match in Orlando. The match at UCF features players who will be joining many of the top NCAA programs, including three four of...
2024 NCAA men’s volleyball preview: Teams, conferences loaded with depth
UCLA wins the 2023 NCAA men’s title/UCLA photo The 2024 NCAA men’s volleyball season gets underway Tuesday when Ball State plays host to Wabash College. There are six matches Wednesday, including Loyola Chicago at Hawai’i. Defending national-champion UCLA opens at home Thursday against Fort Valley State...
Putting a wrap on 2023, the volleyball year that was
That’s a wrap on 2023. We covered the heck out of it.Quick history: My late, great partner, Ed Chan, and I bought Volleyball magazine in 2016. The first thing we did — and we had to do to make it work — was stop the print...
Recap of 2023 New York, Virginia and Wisconsin boys HS volleyball seasons
Middleton’s Brody Stuttgen, left, and Ambrose Engling celebrate during the Wisconsin state tournament Here are the champions and key players for the boys high school volleyball seasons in New York, Virginia, and Wisconsin. If you are part of a program in these states (or involved in boys...
The Evolution of Volleyball Net Systems
Team dealers and road salespersons new to the industry might think that volleyball standards have always been aluminum or carbon fiber installed in floor sleeves. This is far from the truth. As in all sports, innovative manufacturers, coaches, independent inventors and players are always searching for the...
International men: Christenson, Kazan win Russian Cup; big weeks for Michelau, Jasper
Micah Christenson claimed another Russian Cup for Zenit Kazan/volley.ru This is Blair Lambert’s VolleyballMag.com weekly men’s professional volleyball report, featuring Americans around the world. Got a note about a player or a comment for Blair? Email him at blairlambert2@gmail.com While many leagues took a Christmas break, there...
A great year and tremendous coverage: Best NCAA volleyball stories from 2023
There has never been a season like it. NCAA women’s volleyball attendance and TV ratings were broken seemingly every day. The competition was fantastic and interest has never been higher. Here at VolleyballMag, we have shattered our previous best page-views record and NCAA women’s volleyball was...
Boys HS beach volleyball continues growth in San Diego, Orange County, L.A.
Cathedral Catholic In the past 10 years, Southern California high school coaches have formed high school club beach volleyball leagues that run from six to eight weeks in the fall. With high school girls beach volleyball becoming a CIF sport, there is hope the boys will become...
The Top 10 SANDCAST podcast episodes from 2023
This year was, in every way, the best year we’ve ever had at SANDCAST. It may have taken us more than five years, but we alas upgraded our mics, to the world-class Shure MV7s. Midway through 2023, Gabby Bourne put the final touches on our...
VolleballMag.com’s favorite beach volleyball stories from 2023
Zana Muno dials in at the AVP Heromosa Beach Open/Mark Rigney photo HERMOSA BEACH, California — It’s time again to take an inventory of some of our best, most in-depth and intriguing work from the 2023 beach volleyball season. From mostly unknowns who overcame cancer and...
Women’s pro report: Skinner, Plummer, Frantti, Drews, Hart, Hoffman make the news
Two former Nebraska players compete as Lauren Stivrins of Firenze hits over Madi Kubik of Cuneo/LVF photo This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts. Pro leagues are entering their winter breaks,...
An impressive group: VolleyballMag.com College Coaching Hotshots list
It’s been since 2019 that VolleyballMag.com presented a College Coaching Hotshots list. Just as a ton of new talent has come into the collegiate game in that timeframe, the same holds true on the coaching front, whether it’s veterans of the sport taking their game to...
Pro Volleyball Federation update: TV partner, Vibe signings, news and notes
Dave Whinham and Jen Spicher present George Mulry of the International Volleyball Hall of Fame an autographed league ball at the PVF party in Tampa The Pro Volleyball Federation took a significant first step toward spreading the word to potential new fans by signing a multiyear...
Travis Mewhirter’s 2023 in beach volleyball, the “most special” year to date
It’s September. I’m sitting on my deck back home, which in this case means Hampstead, Maryland. There’s grass here. And trees. And quiet. I say quiet, not silence, because the place is always humming with life — real life, not the kind of life you get...
Texas coach Jerritt Elliott on taking a break, winning it all and that red card
When I talked with Texas coach Jerritt Elliott on Thursday night, I hadn’t even looked at our voters’ ballots for national coach of the year. So that never came up in our visit while he was in Park City, Utah, taking a break after his Longhorns...
Madisen Skinner of Texas is the VolleyballMag.com national player of the year
For the past two years, our VolleyballMag.com national player of the year was Logan Eggleston of Texas. This year the honor stays in Austin with Texas junior outside hitter Madisen Skinner, who just won her third — third! NCAA volleyball championship. Skinner, who won a title...
Skinner and Elliott of Texas, Pitt’s Babcock lead 2023 VolleyballMag.com All-Americans
For the third year in a row, a Texas Longhorn is the VolleyballMag.com national player of the year. This year it’s junior Madisen Skinner, the outside hitter who was the Big 12 player of the year and then had a tremendous NCAA Tournament. Skinner is joined...