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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 14, 2021) – After a one-year delay of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, what is another 100 days? USA Volleyball’s national teams will be more than ready to compete when the Games begin on July 23 this year. We are still waiting to find out which beach teams will qualify and...
The next three weeks will be critical for the U.S. Beach National Team as the first of three Olympic Qualification tournaments kicks off Friday, April 16, in Cancun, Mexico.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 14, 2021) – The U.S. beach team of Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb will begin the FIVB World Tour four-star event in Cancun in the qualifier bracket rather than in the country quota. The change comes because the U.S. team of Chase Budinger/Casey Patterson dropped out of the event. With 2,000...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 14, 2021) – After a one-year delay of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, what is another 100 days? USA Volleyball’s national teams will be more than ready to compete when the Games begin on July 23 this year. We are still waiting to find out which beach teams will qualify and...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 12, 2021) – U.S. Women’s National Team Captain and outside hitter Jordan Larson became the first ever as the first Athletes Unlimited Volleyball Champion on Monday at the end of the league’s five-week season. Larson, the captain of Team Gold, entered her final match of the season with a significant 822-point...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 25, 2021) – The 2021 race for beach volleyball slots at the Tokyo Olympic Games got off to a good start at the FIVB World Tour four-star event on March 8-12 in Doha, Qatar. USA Volleyball placed two teams each in the women’s and the men’s medal matches and came away...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 24, 2021) – USA Volleyball signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on Tuesday with three groups in Japan that will host U.S. teams preparing for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Mishima City, Japan plans to host the U.S. Men’s National Team for training prior to the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games,...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 17, 2021) – For the first time, college players will have a competition of their own in conjunction with the USA Volleyball Open National Championship. USAV will host a Collegiate National Championship as part of its 2021 Open National Championship on May 28-30 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky....
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 16, 2021) – USA Volleyball has updated its transfer list for the 2020-21 professional club season. USA Volleyball has processed 301 transfer certificates (230 women and 71 men) for the 2020-21 season. These certificates allow U.S. citizens to play professional volleyball in other countries. For the women, Germany leads the way...
Alix Klineman and April Ross won gold at the Katara Beach Volleyball Cup Friday, and Taylor Crabb and Jake Gibb won bronze. In all four American duos reached the semifinal round, the first time in 10 years two men's and two women's pairs reached the semis at the same tournament.
Eight U.S. Beach National Team pairs will compete at the Katara Cup, a four-star tournament in Doha, Qatar, as the race for an Olympic berth reignites.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 23, 2021) – The U.S. women’s professional volleyball league Athletes Unlimited debuts Friday, giving fans a place to watch the sport they love and giving some U.S. athletes a chance to play in-country. Among the U.S. athletes who will play for Athletes Unlimited are current U.S. National Team players Tori Dixon,...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 18, 2021) – Two U.S. men’s beach volleyball teams and one women’s team have qualified for the Katara Cup, an FIVB four-star event on March 8-12 in Doha, Qatar. USA Volleyball held a country quota qualifier for the event on Thursday at Huntington Beach, Calif. Four men’s teams competed for two...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 17, 2021) – Several women’s and men’s pro club teams with U.S. players advanced to the quarterfinals of the CEV Champions league. On the women’s side, Italy’s Igor Gorgonzola Novara, with U.S. setter Micha Hancock and middle blocker Haleigh Washington will face Turkey’s Fenerbahçe Opet Istanbul, which recently acquired outside hitter...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 12, 2020) – USA Volleyball has announced the reconstitution of the USAV Foundation Board of Directors. Among the objectives of the USAV Foundation are creating new opportunities for access to the sport and building support for players from all economic backgrounds, strengthening ties with national team alumni and building a base...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 10, 2021) – USA Volleyball has released its first updated list of transfers for 2021. USA Volleyball has processed 298 transfer certificates (228 women and 70 men) for the 2020-21 season. These certificates allow U.S. citizens to play professional volleyball in other countries. For the women, Germany leads the way with 44...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 4, 2021) – USA Volleyball National Team players and coaches know video review is a valuable way to improve their game. Now volleyball athletes at any level can get a personalized video review from a top U.S. National Team player or coach with USA Volleyball One on One, Powered by SLOCOACH....
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 1, 2021) – USA Volleyball sends its condolences to the family and friends of Gene O. Chambliss of Dale, Texas, who died Jan. 19, 2021 at age 91. Chambliss served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Women’s Volleyball Team at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He served as...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 1, 2021) – The FIVB has announced that the 2021 Volleyball Nations League (VNL) will be held with a secure bubble concept to ensure the health of all athletes and stakeholders involved and preserve the original format of the flagship annual event. This led to the cancelation of the 2021 U.S. VNL...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 22, 2021) – Two USA Volleyball Paralympians have accepted leadership roles to represent their fellow athletes. Paralympian Nicky Nieves has been elected as the women’s sitting volleyball representative to the USA Volleyball Board of Directors. Paralympian Eric Duda has been elected as USA Volleyball’s representative to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic...
EUSTIS, Fla. (Jan. 18, 2021) – The Florida Region of USA Volleyball has announced a $100,000 private donation from the Norelli Family Foundation to support USAV Beach ParaVolley (BPV) programming at Hickory Point Beach in Tavares, Fla., for the 2021‐2024 quad. Additionally, Hickory Point Beach (HPB) will become a National Training Site for the USA...
Outside hitters Aaron Russell goes up against U.S. teammates Micah Christenson and T.J. DeFalco in this week's update
