This weekend’s Volleyball World Challenge event in Stare Jablonki, Poland, the penultimate tournament in the Olympic qualifying period, seemed, to many, to decide the beach volleyball Olympic race.
ARLINGTON, Texas — “Frustrating loss,” USA Karch Kiraly said Saturday after his team fell 29-27, 25-22, 20-25, 25-23 to Poland in Volleyball Nations League.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Things ramp up here Saturday and Sunday for the USA women’s volleyball team in Volleyball Nations League. After sweeping Bulgaria on Friday to improve to 4-2 and move up to sixth place in the 16-team field, the Americans go back-to-back against two of the better teams in the world.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Germany may be taking its lumps in the Volleyball Nations League, but Lena Kindermann is having a breakout tournament. “They say she
ARLINGTON, Texas — Canada took another step towards clinching its first Olympics spot since 1996 with a sweep of Germany on Thursday in Volleyball Nations League.
There the scores stayed, stuck at 10-9 in the third set between two young American teams with a great deal of interest back home and no way of knowing what was happening save for the slow tick of the online scoreboard.
The USA women opened the second round of Volleyball Nations League with a four-set win Tuesday over Canada, but then had two days off. Friday they’ll begin three matches in three days by playing Bulgaria, Poland and Türkiye.
Kathryn Plummer had 14 kills, Jordan Thompson had 13 and Jordan Larson 12 as the USA women beat Canada 25-22, 25-17, 23-25, 25-20 Tuesday to open the second round of Volleyball Nations League play.
Like so many of us who covered basketball the past five decades, we interviewed, got to know and couldn’t help just loving Bill Walton. And we all had stories.
The race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began in February 2023 in Doha, Qatar, with the Volleyball World Elite16. The 2024 season began the first week of March back in Doha, and the final event of the Olympic qualification cycle will be the Ostrava Elite16, which ends on June 9.
An Arlington overhaul. The USA women’s 14-player roster for the second round of Volleyball Nations League includes eight players who did not compete in the first round.
Jake Hanes went off for 29 kills as the USA men salvaged their four-match trip to Antalya, Türkiye, for the first round of Volleyball Nations League with a four-set victory Sunday over the home team. After the women play this week, the American men are back in action June 4 for four matches in Ottawa, Canada.
“Outrageous” is how Taryn Kloth described it, and that word could have been applied to any number of matters on Sunday morning at the Espinho Elite16. The six match points she and Kristen Nuss fended off in the second set of the gold-medal match in Portugal to Nina Brunner and Tanja Huberli?
Kristen Nuss isn’t entirely sure what came over her, or why. But on the bus ride over from the hotel to the site of the Espinho Elite16 on Saturday afternoon, she texted her mother, Audrey.
The USA men play Bulgaria at 1 p.m. Eastern Saturday, trying to get their first Volleyball Nations League victory. It’s one of six matches Saturday, starting with Slovenia (2-0) vs.
Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss, Chase Budinger and Miles Evans, and Andy Benesh and Miles Partain got through pool play Friday at the Volleyball World Beach Tour Elite16 in Espinho, Portugal, as three of the four USA teams left made it to Saturday’s single-elimination bracket.
What a rough Thursday for USA Volleyball at the Volleyball World Beach Tour Espinho Elite16. On the men’s side, the pair of Chase Budinger and Miles Evans came away with a victory, thought it came after losing earlier in the day.
When the USA men played Poland in Volleyball Nations League on Wednesday, Matthew Knigge had four kills, an ace and a block. On the surface, stats not normally worth noting.
There aren’t many beach volleyball players in the world who can quote Kobe Bryant and get it away with it. There is, in fact, just one. Chase Budinger.
The USA men got swept by Poland as they began Volleyball Nations League play Wednesday. None of the 12 players nor alternate named to the USA Olympic team made the trip to Antalya, Türkiye, including coach John Speraw.
HERMOSA BEACH, California — As the 2023 season bled into 2024, and Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour raged on, the Olympic race winding ever tighter, it did not go unnoticed that perhaps the best team in America was nowhere to be found.
The AVP season kicked off with the Huntington Beach Open this past weekend and our full contingent of photographers were on the scene: Mark Rigney, Rick Atwood, Will Chu, Allen Szto and Jim Wolf.
American beach legend Tim Hovland and one of the most versatile players to ever pick up a volleyball, Brazilian Ana Paula Henkel, are the headline selections
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California — In the moments after Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander closed one of the most dominant AVP performances in recent memory, winning
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