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We continue our athlete retirement series by honoring Nichole Millage of the U.S. Women’s Sitting Team. Nichole is a four-time Paralympic medalist who started with the team in 2005, less than a year after the team won a surprise bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games. She was named an alternate for the team that competed at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, but then got the surprise call to play and won her second Paralympic gold medal.

Updates on U.S. women competing for professional clubs around the world

Phil Dalhausser ended his illustrious international career in 2021. He won Olympic gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and he also won the 2007 Beach Volleyball World Championship.

Updates on U.S. men competing for professional club teams internationally

Corinne Quiggle and Sarah Schermerhorn will compete in the King of the Court Finals January 5-8 in Doha, Qatar.

Updates on U.S. women's players competing for clubs around the world.

USA Volleyball, the U.S. national governing body for the sport of volleyball, and Mizuno, the global specialty sporting goods company, have announced details on a new multi-year partnership beginning in January of 2022 and lasting through the 2024 Olympics in Paris and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

European club teams with U.S. Men’s National Team players are doing well in the pool play round of the CEV Champions League.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 22, 2021) – USA Volleyball is happy to announce that it has renewed the contracts of indoor U.S. National Team head coaches Karch Kiraly and John Speraw to contracts through 2024.  Kiraly became the Women’s National Team head coach in September 2012 after serving as its assistant coach from 2009-12.   In the...

The U.S. Beach U21 National Team claimed two top-10 finishes at the FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships this week. Both Matt Gentry/Phil Catanzaro and Nicole Nourse/Maddie Anderson finished tied for ninth place.

Four-time Olympian Jake Gibb retired in 2021 after two decades in professional beach volleyball. He won seven FIVB tournaments and competed in eight world championships.

Twenty-five athletes currently competing in the NCAA DIU Women's Volleyball Tournament national semifinals have USA Volleyball and National Team Development Program experience.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 15, 2021) – Registration is now open for the 2022 USA Volleyball Women’s National Team Open Program, which is scheduled for Feb. 25-27 at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.  The Women’s National Team Open Program, formerly known as the Open Tryout, is a part of the...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 14, 2021) – USA Volleyball is saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Donald S. “Don” Shondell, seventh president of USA Volleyball (1979-80) an AVCA Hall of Fame coach and a 1996 inductee of the International Volleyball Hall of Fame. Shondell died Tuesday, Nov. 23 at age 92 in Muncie,...

USA Volleyball has selected Salt Lake City to host the 2023 Boys Junior National Championship (BJNC) on June 29-July 6 at the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center.

The Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships run December 14-19 in Phuket, Thailand. Four pairs of the U.S. Beach U21 National Team will represent the United States.

Updates on U.S. women's volleyball players competing around the world

Megan Kraft and Delaynie Maple own the Beach Volleyball U19 World Championship Saturday. It's the U.S.' first U19 title since 2010. Xolani Hodel and Kate Reilly finished fourth.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Dec. 10, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s National Team will play on U.S. soil for the first time since winning the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo when it competes in the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League (VNL) on May 31-June 5 at Brookshire Grocery Arena in Bossier City, Louisiana. The U.S. Women,...

Former U.S. Beach National Team athletes Ryan Doherty and Stafford Slick retired from international volleyball in 2020. Find out what they've been up to in the past year.