Volleyball

Brooke Sweat digs in the Sochi qualifier/FIVB photo With the qualifier completed, the stage is set for the penultimate Olympic beach volleyball qualifier, a four-star tournament in Sochi, Russia, and Americans Kerri Walsh Jennings and Brooke Sweat got through into...

Absolute 16 Black Daily Dots (May 25, 2021): Club or high school volleyball factoids, notions and ideas to impress your friends (or not)• Welcome to my “Occasional Dots,” a semi-regular article for VolleyballMag.com that differs from the Daily Dots articles...

LSU’s Kristen Nuss is VBM’s Player of the Year/Chris Parent, LSU beach After all that happened in the previous year, 2021 turned out to be an amazing year for NCAA beach volleyball, with an abundance of storylines. There was the...

Travis Mewhirter passes a ball in practice before the Bulgaria one-star. Photo/Lisa Dietrich SOFIA, Bulgaria — It was at 9:04 in the morning when I heard the first whistle. By the time it had made it over the courts, around...

Long Beach 16 Rockstar Daily Dots (May 21, 2021): Club or high school volleyball factoids, notions and ideas to impress your friends (or not)• Dots reaches the end of the week with a look at the Pacific Northwest Qualifier, or...

April Ross and Alix Klineman will take a well-deserved rest dduring the Sochi 4-star/FIVB photo A 33-month (!) journey is finally (mercifully?) coming to a close in a little over a month’s time as the beach volleyball fields for the...

Coast 17-2 Daily Dots (May 20, 2021): Club or high school volleyball factoids, notions and ideas to impress your friends (or not)• As we recap Red Rock Rave, which held competitions in the 15s to 17s age groups Saturday through...

Jonathan Winder coaching Fresno State/Fresno State photo The majority of NCAA Division I volleyball recruiting occurs outside the Power 5 conferences. There are 27 leagues that deal with a completely different set of circumstances, wants and needs, and with the...

Stanford’s Luke Turner, Will Rottman, Nathaniel Gates, Nathan Lietzke, and Aidan Peters Reports of the death of Stanford men’s volleyball, as it turns out, were premature. Stanford reversed course and announced Tuesday that men’s volleyball and 10 other sports —...

Mountain Peak players supported their coach outside the tournament Daily Dots (May 17, 2021): Club or high school volleyball factoids, notions and ideas to impress your friends (or not) • Controversy erupted over the weekend in Denver when the Colorado Crossroads...