Pitt sweeps GT; UCLA beats WSU; Iowa St., TCU get Big 12 upsets; more titles clinched
Yet another get-your-attention Friday in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball. Pittsburgh made a statement with sweep at Georgia Tech. UCLA greatly improved its NCAA Tournament chances with a hard-fought, five-set win at Washington State. Kansas was upset by Iowa State. Baylor was upset by TCU. And USC kept...
Stanford hangs on against Oregon; Southeastern LA, SFA clinch league titles
Third-ranked Stanford won the battle of the top two teams in the Pac-12, getting past visiting No. 6 Oregon in five. Southeastern Louisiana not only won its 19th in a row, the Lions clinched the Southland Conference regular-season title. SFA won its 15th match in a row...
NCAA volleyball: K-State stuns No. 4 Texas; Huskers win; Seton Hall knocks off St. John’s
The Wildcats douse coach Jason Mansfield after Kansas State swept Texas/Will Huster, K-State Sports Unranked Kansas State scored the upset of the year in the Big 12 Wednesday night by not only beating visiting Texas, but sweeping the Longhorns. K-State had lost 39 in a row...
Girls HS Dream Team of the Week: Parant, Long, O’Brien, Quest, Petersen, Wiley, Jones, Galla
Madison Quest Just about 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. The goal is for the eight-girl Dream Team to consist of...
Megan Rice was always just “one opportunity away” from her breakout 2023
HERMOSA BEACH, California — It was a hypothetical at first. There was only a space of four days between the AVP Denver Tour Series and the Hermosa Pro Series this past July. Savvy Simo and Toni Rodriguez, after a finals run in Denver, opted to...
NCAA volleyball: Utah St. wins MWC; AVCA Poll, POW; Huskers, ‘Horns play Wednesday
Utah State wins the 2023 Mountain West regular-season title Utah State has wrapped up the Mountain West regular-season title, the AVCA put out a new poll and announced its player of the week, and we can look ahead to a 10-match Wednesday schedule that includes top-ranked...
Tawa’s HS Volleyball Dots: Streaks ended, streaks extended
Crane takes Oregon’s 1A title for the first time in program history/Andre Panse photo 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 Tuesday until the last...
International men: Christenson, Zenit Kazan among many early season cup winners
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 beginning of the professional season in most countries is accompanied by various Supercup matches that...
Women’s pro report: Dani, Annie Drews come up big in Japan; Samedy wins in Türkiye
Kelsey Robinson Cook attacks for Conegliano as Haleigh Washington and Lindsey Ruddins put up the block for Scandicci/Filippo Rubin, LVF This is our weekly update on USA women playing professional volleyball around the world. Most of the players are former NCAA standouts: Japan It was all Drews. Dani Drews...
Leah Edmond sparkles as 2023 Athletes Unlimited Volleyball champion
Leah Edmund wins the 2023 AU Volleyball title Athletes Unlimited is a non-traditional individual competition, but good old-fashioned teamwork paved the way for Leah Edmond to become its 2023 volleyball champion. With pressure to stay atop the leaderboard riding on each of her final-week matches and Alli...
WMU’s Munson, WKU’s Hudson join the VBM NCAA Zoom
Western Michigan wins the 2023 MAC regular-season title/Ashley Huss, WMU Photographer Western Michigan won the MAC regular-season title and WKU did the same in Conference USA. Both are riding big-time winning streaks. The respective coaches, Colleen Munson of WMU and Travis Hudson of WKU, spend some time...
Paris 2024: Olympic Beach Volleyball Rankings, updated November 6
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 conclude on June 9, 2024. We’ll be providing these updates for...
VBM Super 16: All sorts of shuffling after Nebraska-Wisconsin as upsets abound
Georgia Tech dogpiles after its win over Louisville last week/GT photo We might as well use the same lead as last week: Nebraska and Wisconsin remained 1-2. After that? Here you go: Rank, Team, Points (Last week)1. Nebraska, 176 (1)2. Wisconsin, 165 (2)3. Stanford, 150 (4)4. Texas, 143...
Creighton routs Marquette; big win for Purdue; ACC leaders, UK, Huskers, Stanford win
Washington State’s Shea Rubright attacks at Cal as Argentina Ung looks on at Cal/Leroy Yau photo Creighton laid down the hammer against visiting Marquette and created a three-way tie atop the Big East as the resurgent Bluejays won their ninth in a row. Purdue got an important...
TCU’s Hamlett, Kmil win AVCA Fall Collegiate Beach National Championships
The AVCA Fall Collegiate Beach National Championships podium Hailey Hamlett and Anhelina Kmil of TCU beat Stanford’s Xolani Hodel and Brooke Rockwell in the final Sunday of the 2023 AVCA Fall Collegiate Beach National Championships. Hamlett, a junior from Bulverd, Texas, and Kmil, a sophomore from the...
NCAA women’s volleyball season: “Exciting, unpredictable, and historic!”
With all eyes on NCAA college volleyball this season, it’s no surprise that fans and teams would be closely watching as the NCAA Division I women’s volleyball committee reveals its top 10 during the regular season. The committee placed Wisconsin, Nebraska and Florida at the top...
Miles Evans, Chase Budinger win gold they’ve been “waiting for all year”
There was little that suggested that Miles Evans wanted to be in China this past week. His social media featured regular pictures of Hermosa Beach — whose translation in Spanish is “beautiful” — living up to its name. Gorgeous sunsets. Colors everywhere. Idyllic temperatures. These...
NCAA volleyball: Wisconsin routs Illini; WKU, WMU win conference titles
Wisconsin’s Anna Smrek attacks against Illinois/Zach Schuster photo Every ranked team in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball action Saturday swept, except for AVCA No. 22 Houston, which beat UCF in four in the Big 12. That included second-ranked Wisconsin, which pummeled Illinois in the Big Ten. Some regular-season...
FSU, Georgia Tech create ACC logjam with upsets; Nebraska escapes at Penn St.
Penn State’s Jess Mruzik hits against the Nebraska block of Becka Allick, left, and Harper Murray/Caleb Craig photo Florida State, a team that received votes in the VolleyballMag.com Super 16 Media Poll but didn’t receive any — zilch — in the AVCA top 25 — is...
Yale, in regular-season driver’s seat, hopes to repeat as Ivy tourney champ
Erin Applebaum talks to her Yale team/Yale photos Erin Appleman never cared much for the idea of an Ivy League tournament. The way she saw it, each team played all the others in the league twice — home and away — and that was a fair...