Sitting Teams Open Play in the Netherlands
The U.S. Men's and Women's National Sitting Teams began play at the Dutch Tournament Friday in Assen, Netherlands. The women posted two 3-0 wins while the men lost a pair of 3-1 decisions.
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Chase Budinger and Miles Evans finished just off the podium over the weekend at the BPT Challenge in Recife, while Alaina Chacon/Mariah Whalen won their second straight medal in a BPT Futures event. Check out the results of both tournaments in this week's beach update and look ahead to Challenge Saquarema where three of the top U.S. men's beach volleyball pairs face off again.
The U.S. Men's and Women's National Sitting Teams began play at the Dutch Tournament Friday in Assen, Netherlands. The women posted two 3-0 wins while the men lost a pair of 3-1 decisions.
The U.S. Men’s and Women’s Sitting Teams are in Assen, Netherlands, this week for the annual Dutch Tournament.
In honor of World ParaVolley Day on April 24, the World ParaVolley organization released its 2022 awards and honored several U.S. athletes, coaches and officials
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.
U.S. Women’s National Team Captain Jordan Larson was named the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswoman of the Year for Team Sport on Wednesday during the organization’s Annual Salute, part of a national broadcast on Yahoo Sports.
TOKYO (Sept. 5, 2021) – The journey didn’t go the way the U.S. Women’s Sitting Team had planned, but the destination was better than they imagined. The U.S. Sitting Team beat China, 3-1 (25-12, 25-20, 22-25, 25-19) on Sunday to win its second straight Paralympic Games gold medal at Makuhari Messe event hall The U.S....
TOKYO (Sept. 4, 2021) – Hello, China. We meet again. The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team will play China for the ninth time in Paralympic Games history on Sunday at 10 a.m. in Japan (9 p.m. on Saturday ET). Watch the match live on the NBC Sports app or on the NBC Sports Network. MATCH HUB * MEDIA...
TOKYO (Sept. 3, 2021) – For a fourth straight Paralympic Games, the U.S. Women’s Sitting Team will play China for the gold medal. The U.S. Women beat Brazil on Friday, 3-0 (25-19, 25-11, 25-23) in the Paralympic semifinal at Makuhari Messe event hall. The U.S. (3-1) will play China (4-0) for the gold medal on...
TOKYO (Sept. 2, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team has been here before. At the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the U.S. Women were 2-1 in pool play and had to play Brazil in the semifinals. The U.S. won and went on to take the Paralympic gold medal. MATCH HUB * MEDIA...
TOKYO (Sept. 1, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s Sitting National Team shook off Monday’s loss and swept the Russian Paralympic Committee team (25-19, 25-15, 25-22) on Wednesday in the final match of Paralympic pool play at the Makuhari Messe event hall. The win puts the U.S. Women (2-1) into the Paralympic semifinals on Friday (Sept....
TOKYO (Aug. 30, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team has not played China since 2017. The teams‘ reunion was not a happy one for Team USA. The U.S. Women fell to China 3-0 (25-17, 25-22, 26-24) on Monday at the Paralympic Games at Makuhari Messe event hall in Tokyo. The loss makes Wednesday’s match...
TOKYO (Aug. 28, 2021) – After three weeks of uncertainty and changes in plans and players, the U.S. Women’s Sitting Team finally hit the court at the 2020 Paralympic Games on Saturday and beat Rwanda 3-0 (25-11, 25-9, 25-11) at the Makuhari Messe event center. The U.S. Women (1-0) will play China on Monday at...
TOKYO (Aug. 26, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team will rely on a mix of Paralympic Games veterans and rookies to defend its gold medal starting on Saturday at the Makuhari Messe Event Hall in Tokyo. The team is scheduled to begin Paralympic competition on Aug. 28 at 1 a.m. ET (midnight CT and...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 25, 2021) – Two players and a member of team support will join the U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this week. Alternates Nichole Millage and Annie Flood will join the team in Tokyo and will be on the U.S. roster for the Paralympic Games along...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 13, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team will play Rwanda, China and the team from the Russian Paralympic Committee, in that order, at the 2021 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team is ranked No. 1 in the world and is the defending Paralympic champion. It will...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 12, 2021) – USA Volleyball today announced the 12 women who will compete for the U.S. Sitting Volleyball Team at the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. Nine players return from the 2016 Paralympic team that won gold in Rio de Janeiro: Tia Edwards, Heather Erickson, Katie Holloway, Kaleo Kanahele Maclay, Monique (Burkland)...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 4, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team celebrated July 4 by winning the Golden Nations League tournament in Assen, Netherlands. The U.S. Women (6-0) beat world champion Russia in Sunday’s final, 3-1 (27-25, 25-19, 25-27, 25-18). Russia was the only team to take a set from the U.S. Women’s Sitting...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 1, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team takes another step in preparing to defend its Paralympic gold medal this weekend at the 2021 Golden Nations League tournament in Assen, Netherlands. The U.S. Women, ranked No. 1 in the world, will play the sitting teams from Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Slovenia and...
EDMOND, Okla. (June 17, 2021) – The U.S. Women’s Sitting Team is preparing for the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 with an exhibition match on Saturday against Canada at 7 p.m. at the Wellness Center at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. Spectators are welcome at the matches and admission is free. Masks are encouraged....
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 18, 2021) – Three-time Paralympian and gold medalist Kari Miller-Ortiz may have retired from the U.S. Women’s Sitting National Team, but she has not left her sport behind. NBCUniversal announced Monday that Ortiz would be the color commentator for its Tokyo sitting volleyball broadcast. She will work with retired ice dancer...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 16, 2021) – With 100 days to go until the Tokyo Paralympic Games, which begin Aug. 24, the U.S. Women’s and Men’s Sitting National Teams are in two different places. The U.S. WSNT, ranked No. 1 in the world, goes into Tokyo as the defending gold medalist. The team qualified in...