Paris 2024: Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, updated November November 27
Duda and Ana Patricia celebrate a fifth gold medal at the Joao Pessoa 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...
VBM Super 16: Our final media poll heading into the NCAA tourney
Eva Hudson and Purdue held the No. 12 spot this week This is the last VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll of the season and we give high fives and thank our voters for all the hard work to make this happen every week. It’s been a great...
NIVC announces 32-team field, schedule that begins Wednesday
Nataly Garcia and her Southern Illinois Salukis play host to DePaul to open the NIVC/Missouri Valley photo Play begins Wednesday in the 2023 National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) that starts with eight host schools. Click here for the bracket. In bracket order, here are the matchups, locations...
Volley: « Je suis ciblé », la nouvelle vie de Théo Faure, meilleur marqueur de Serie A
Les Tricolores qui brillent à l’étranger (1/5). Théo Faure (24 ans le 10 décembre) est le hit du moment dans le championnat d’Italie. Avec 20 points par matchs, le champion de France 2022 avec Montpellier est le meilleur marqueur de la Serie A. Rencontre avec...
Post-volleyball selection show Zoom with NCAA chair, coaches, players
ESPN and Big Ten Network volleyball analyst Emily Ehman and VolleyballMag.com editor Lee Feinswog hit the ground running after the NCAA volleyball selection show on ESPN. There was a lot left to discuss and they got after it with, in order, Nebraska libero Lexi Rodriguez; Pittsburgh...
Nebraska, Stanford, Wisconsin, Pitt get top 4 NCAA volleyball bracket seeds
Nebraska’s Harper Murray attacks against the Wisconsin block of Anna Smrek, left, and CC Crawford during their match this past Friday/Zach Schuster photo The 64-team NCAA Division I women’s volleyball tournament bracket was announced Sunday and the No. 1 seeds are Big Ten-champion Nebraska, Pac-12-champion Stanford,...
Regular season ends: FSU ties for ACC title; S. Carolina upsets Vols; Creighton, UH win tourneys
Hawai’i celebrates winning the Big West/Jim Wolf photo Three months to the day after it started, the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball regular season ended with a flourish Saturday. Back on August 25, the tone was set. That was the opening day that Long Beach State, which won’t...
Weber St., Fresno St. claim NCAA bids; upsets in Big East, Big West
NCAA bids were claimed by surprising Weber State in the Big Sky and Fresno State — which pulled off a reverse sweep — in the Mountain West, there were upsets in the Big West and Big East semifinals, and UCLA beat AVCA No. 24 USC...
Smrek, Franklin, Wisconsin sweep to end Nebraska’s unbeaten run
Wisconsin’s Anna Smrek gets ready to unload against Nebraska/Zach Schuster photo MADISON, Wisconsin — A few takeaways from Wisconsin’s 25-22, 28-26, 25-16 victory Friday over Nebraska. Wisconsin (25-3, 16-3 Big Ten) is better with 6-foot-9 Anna Smrek. Nebraska (27-1, 18-1) will not finish unbeaten. And in this what-have-done-for-me-lately world...
Big upset win for Fresno St.; Nebraska vs. Wisconsin, round 2
Nebraska celebrates beating Wisconsin in Lincoln on October 21/Nebraska photo The first big upset of the postseason ensured that the Mountain West Conference will get two teams into the NCAA Tournament after fifth-seeded Fresno State knocked out No. 1 Utah State. Utah State, a runaway MWC regular-season...
UNI wins Valley; EIU takes the OVC; Louisville, Kentucky get key victories
UNI wins the 2023 Missouri Valley title Northern Iowa won the Missouri Conference title, but not before fighting off a determined Drake team that took the Panthers to five sets after falling behind 0-2. Eastern Illinois won the Ohio Valley title. Louisville, No. 5 in the VolleyballMag.com Super...
Cassidy Lichtman: We’re not there yet … the biggest volleyball push is yet to come
Former Stanford All-American and USA national-team player Cassidy Lichtman has an extensive volleyball resume. She played professionally for five years in Poland, Switzerland, Azerbaijan, France and China, and is on the USA Volleyball board of directors, Lichtman was also an assistant coach at Stanford when...
Terese Cannon: Scrapping a six-year Olympic plan to “go play because you like playing”
HERMOSA BEACH, California — It was early September, and Scott Davenport had a terrible idea. A wonderful idea. A terrible, horrible, no good, positively brilliant idea. He was going to take Terese Cannon, a left side blocker, and partner her with Megan Kraft … another left...
NCAA volleyball: Omaha wins The Summit; OVC, MVC finals set; Oregon tops USC
Omaha, which came from behind all season, pulled off a reverse sweep in The Summit League final to claim that conference’s automotic NCAA Tournament bid. Eastern Illinois and Southeast Missouri won their semifinal matches and play for the Ohio Valley Conference title, and Northern Iowa and...
International men’s report: CEV Champions League preview; USA player updates
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 The main phase of the most prestigious professional volleyball tournament in the world starts Wednesday. Since...
Women’s pro report: Bajema, Rettke lead Milano; big week for Stuttgart’s Rivers
This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: Champions League Milano stayed unbeaten in Pool A by sweeping Mulhouse, which had just 17 kills. Kara Bajema had a match-high five blocks to go...
NCAA volleyball: WMU wins MAC; Omaha vs. KC for Summit title; OVC, MVC semis set
Logan Case leaps for joy as Western Michigan wins the MAC title/WMU photo Western Michigan, which led the MAC from wire to wire, won the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, But it wasn’t easy. The Broncos took the first two sets Monday night against Bowling Green...
Jonas Brothers, Nebraska-Wisconsin, so much more on the NCAA volleyball Zoom
From left in Minneapolis, Kevin Jonas, Nick Jonas, Emma Carpenter, Emily Ehman, Joe Jonas Our weekly (mostly) NCAA Zoom is like no other, because Big Ten Network and ESPN analyst Emily Ehman met the Jonas Brothers before calling Ohio State at Minnesota, VolleyballMag.com editor Lee Feinswog...
Paris 2024: Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, updated November 20
Fun mayhem at the BPT Challenge Chiang Mai awards podium/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...
VBM Super 16: Minor top-half shuffling; Purdue, Dayton, Kansas get back in
Pittsburgh celebrated Saturday after beating Louisville/Pitt photo The top 11 spots were more or less the same in this week’s VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll, but there was some minor movement. Two teams dropped out and we welcomed back Purdue, Dayton and Kansas: Rank, Team, Points (Last week)1....