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The professional women's volleyball league in Japan started play over the last two weeks and we have updates on U.S. women's players. Brazil's women's league starts this weekend and leagues in Turkey, Italy and Germany are in full swing.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded USA Volleyball an Adaptive Sports Grant of $61,675 to support the participation of disabled veterans and Armed Services members in beach ParaVolley.

Clubs now have the opportunity to make NTDP Academy available to all their teams with a variety of team packages. These packages provide access to the NTDP Academy through August 31, 2022.

While many U.S. Men’s National Team players gravitated to Italy in 2020-21, Poland has become a prime destination in 2021-22 with 2020 Olympians David Smith, Erik Shoji, T.J. DeFalco and Mitch Stahl all playing there.

The Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour will replace the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour in 2022. The Pro Tour will feature three levels of competition and take place in cities across the globe.

With the Tokyo Olympic Games in the rearview mirror, many players from the U.S. Women’s National Team have already begun playing for their overseas professional club teams, or will start soon.

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.

USA Volleyball has formed a long-term partnership with Apollo MIS. Apollo will be the data sports software platform for all USA Volleyball teams from youth development programs to indoor and beach national teams.

Alix Klineman and April Ross won bronze at the FIVB World Tour Finals Sunday. It was their fifth international medal of 2021 and the first time an American women's pair finished on the World Tour Finals podium.

Alix Klineman/April Ross will play for bronze at the at the FIVB Word Tour Finals Sunday after going 1-1 to start the playoff round. In the quarterfinals, they beat fellow Americans Kelly Claes/Sarah Sponcil.

Kelly Claes/Sarah Sponcil and Alix Klineman/April Ross advanced to the FIVB World Tour Finals playoffs Friday. They'll play each other in the quarterfinals Saturday, October 9.

USA Volleyball sends its condolences to the family and friends of Bruce Wilde, who died on Oct. 2 at age 90 in Princeton, Idaho.

Jake Gibb played the final match of his career as he and Taylor Crabb lost to Italy's Paolo Nicolai/Daniele Lupo Thursday at the FIVB World Tour Finals in Cagliari, Italy.

Three American teams combined for a 2-3 record on day one of the FIVB World Tour Finals Wednesday. Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil went 1-0 and are second in their pool, while Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb went 1-1.

Three U.S. Beach National Team pairs - Klineman/Ross, Claes/Sponcil and Gibb/Crabb - will compete at the FIVB World Tour Finals October 6-10 in Cagliari, Italy. It will be Gibb's final international tournament.

The U.S. Girls U18 National Team beat Serbia, 3-1 (25-23, 25-18, 26-28, 25-18) on Wednesday to take the bronze medal at the FIVB World Championship in Durango, Mexico.The U.S. U18 Team finished the tournament at 7-1. Russia beat Italy to win the gold medal.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 28, 2021) – The U.S. Girls U18 National Team will play for the bronze medal at the FIVB World Championship after losing to Italy in the semifinals on Tuesday, 3-0 (25-23, 25-18, 25-22) in Durango, Mexico. The Girls U18 Team (6-1) will play Serbia (6-1) for third place at 3 p.m....

The U.S. Girls U18 National Team never gave up against an equally tough team from Turkey and came away with a 3-2 (19-25, 25-23, 22-25, 25-21, 15-9) quarterfinal victory on Monday at the FIVB World Championship in Durango, Mexico.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 26, 2021) – The U.S. Girls U18 National Team faced its toughest test so far at the FIVB World Championship and came away with a hard-fought victory over Argentina, 3-2 (26-24, 23-25, 21-25, 25-18, 15-7) on Sunday in Durango, Mexico. The U.S. (5-0) advances to the quarterfinals to face Turkey (4-1)...

Four U.S. beach volleyball athletes recently won their first international beach tournaments as both Terese Cannon/Delaney Mewhirter and Miles Evans/Troy Field took gold at the Nijmegen 1-star event on the FIVB World Tour Sept. 19.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 23, 2021) – The U.S. Girls U18 National Team dominated against Puerto Rico on Thursday, winning 3-0 (25-9, 25-15, 25-9) at the FIVB World Championship in Durango, Mexico. The U.S. team’s next opponent, Nigeria, had to forfeit its matches due to visa issues. The undefeated U.S. (4-0) won its pool and...