Flint-Scoles take road no one has ever traveled to win first Manhattan Beach Open
Julia Scoles and Betsi Flint celebrate their victory/Will Chu Photography MANHATTAN BEACH, California — There is the path less taken to a Manhattan Beach Open title. Then there is the path taken by Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles. The maximum number of matches one can play in winning...
Wait is over: Taylor Crabb, the “people’s champion,” wins the Manhattan Beach Open
MANHATTAN BEACH, CA. — Five years ago, Taylor Crabb hit the perfect swing. The right swing. An untouchable swing. A bullet down the angle around Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena that would have sealed the 2018 Manhattan Beach Open title. It might be the most haunting...
Duda-Ana Patricia too strong for Kloth-Nuss in Hamburg Elite16 final
Kristen Nuss digs in the Hamburg Elite16 final/Volleyball World photo Top-seeded Brazilians Ana Patricia Silva and Duda Lisboa put an end to a great week in Germany for Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss as they swept the Americans in the Volleyball World Hamburg Elite16 final 21-16,...
Breaking fingers, winning matches: TCU hopes to build on remarkable turnaround
By all accounts, TCU women’s coach Jason Williams is pretty mild mannered. He isn’t prone to animated lectures and barely raises his voice. He gets his point across without histrionics. It all belies his past as a football player at Austin College. Although there have been a...
“All is fair in volleyball and war” as Muno-Kraft win semifinal bid against future teammates
MANHATTAN BEACH, CA. — Just one week ago, Deahna Kraft and Toni Rodriguez spent an entire day together in Huntington Beach. Played three matches as a team and won all three, sealing up a main draw berth into the season-ending Chicago Gold Series on Labor...
No hurricane for Nuss and Kloth in Hamburg — just another Elite16 semifinal
Kristen Nuss has been through at least seven hurricanes in her 25 years living in Louisiana, and untold number of floods and storms that didn’t quite make it to hurricane category but carried devastating power nonetheless. She dealt with the madness of Katrina and, a...
AVP Manhattan Beach: No. 32 seeded Loreen-Robinson score historic upset
Dylan Zacca gets low/Rich Atwood photo History was made Friday at the AVP Gold Series Manhattan Beach Open, when a pair from Seattle, two University of Washington players in only their second pro event, knocked off the No. 1 seed. No. 32-seeded Chloe Loreen and Natalie Robinson,...
Hamburg Elite16: Kloth-Nuss, Cheng-Hughes, Partain-Benesh all finish pool play 3-0
With Taryn Kloth out of the play, Kristen Nuss goes for the save/ Volleyball World photo Another day, another example of dominance by the USA women at the Volleyball World Hamburg Eiite16. Third-seeded Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth overpowered France’s Lezana Placette and Alexia Richard 21-13, 21-18...
Pro volleyball: LOVB adds a competing team in Omaha; PVF’s Orlando gets a name
By Aaron Hutton for VolleyballMag.com When all the women’s pro volleyball leagues are up and running, two cities will have two competing franchises. Already there were two announced in Atlanta, one each by the Pro Volleyball Federation and League One Volleyball. Previously, PVF told us about its team...
Americans finish day one undefeated at Hamburg Elite16
There was a Gif sent via Twitter, of a bunch of schoolboys dancing on chairs and desks, with the customized caption: “American beach volleyball fans right now.” Andy Benesh and Miles Partain had done it again. Seeded No. 1 in the Hamburg Elite16 unofficial Pool of Death,...
We’re back! Salima, Jenny, Emily and Lee talk NCAA volleyball and so much more
There is nothing like an NCAA volleyball conversation between Notre Dame coach Salima Rockwell, Southern Miss coach Jenny Hazelwood, the Big Ten Network’s Emily Ehman and VolleyballMag.com editor Lee Feinswog. With the start of the season just eight days away, listen, laugh with us, and enjoy...
AVP Manhattan Beach Open: Where the Hawai’ians reign supreme
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — For about an hour on Thursday afternoon, Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb will be teammates one more time. They won’t be in board shorts, or even on the beach, but rather they’ll be together on the iconic Manhattan Beach Pier that...
Volley (Euro féminin): la France bat l’Estonie et réussit son entrée en lice
Pour son premier match lors de l'Euro ce mercredi, l'équipe de France féminine s'est imposée trois sets à zéro face à l'Estonie, l'un des pays organisateurs. Read More Home Volleyball - actualités ...
From No. 1 Texas to No. 25 Arkansas, breaking down the AVCA preseason top 25
The AVCA preseason top 25 coaches poll came out Tuesday. The first ranking of the leading NCAA women’s volleyball programs is hardly the be-all end-all, but it’s a good place to start for the purpose of looking at the start of the season. And that happens...
Laura Ludwig, Louisa Lippmann dominate in Hamburg Elite16 qualifier
There had been glimpses. Stretches of sets and occasionally a full match in which Laura Ludwig — four-time Olympian, World Champion, 2016 gold medalist, one of the greatest defenders to ever play beach volleyball — and Louisa Lippmann displayed an ability to compete at the...
Beach Volleyball Mailbag: What’s up with the AVP’s streaming? Is Klineman coming back?
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — There are two major events remaining on the AVP calendar: This weekend’s Manhattan Beach Open, and the annual Chicago event on Labor Day weekend. The season-ending Championships have been scheduled for September 22-23, but that is all we know. Don’t know...
Mulry leads the way as International Volleyball Hall of Fame moves forward
George Mulry has a vision, one that guides and drives him every day. In his role as executive director of the International Volleyball Hall of Famein Holyoke, Massachusetts, he sees his organization as THE one group that can tie the whole volleyball universe together. And he...
Tawa’s HS Dots: Mira Costa repeats at Ann Kang as Fuerbringer shines for USA U19
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. This is the first edition of the 2023 girls prep season. Look for Dots every Tuesday until the last high school...
More notes from USAV Nationals: Nuggets, recruiting from China and more
Every once in a while, this becomes a don’t-do-today-what-you-can-put-off-for-a-long-time job. I was in Chicago the first week of July for USA Volleyball Girls Junior Nationals and the next week wrote this notebook: USAV Nationals notes: LSU football, IUPUI, recruiting Egypt and more And there was every intention of...
Oregon’s Ulmer, Washington’s Gabriel on leaving Pac-12 for B1G volleyball
Washington libero Lauren Bays, who will be a junior, digs against Washington State last season/Stephen Burns photo Even if you’re the head coach of a Division I volleyball program, you find out about conference realignment news the same way as everyone else — through social media. That’s...