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The USA women, 2-0 in the third round of Volleyball Nations League, have Friday off before facing Italy on Saturday. The Americans, an OIympic bid long in hand, got a huge performance from Jordan Thompson and a boost from the continued return of Annie Drews and Kelsey Cook. Canada, however, had a wildly different couple […]

HERMOSA BEACH, California — There have been a number of moments that suggested to April Ross and Alix Klineman that this season would be unlike any other in their professional volleyball careers, namely the babies they’ve given birth to and fed and raised these past eight months for Ross and a little more than a […]

The USA women opened the third round of Volleyball Nations League with a 25-15, 26-24, 25-20 victory over France. It left them 5-4 with Tuesday off before playing the Netherlands, also 5-4, on Wednesday night in Fukuoka, Japan. Jordan Thompson had 17 of the Americans’ 46 kills to go with two aces and a solo […]

The USA men have, obviously, a lot to figure out after losing to Canada in four sets on Saturday to finish the first two rounds of Volleyball Nations League 3-5, including 2-2 in their four matches in Ottawa, Canada. The USA women, 4-4 after two rounds and with the Paris Olympics roster set, are in […]

There was a word that once could have described Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes: boring. They were fun to watch, of course, with their tempo sets and options and creativity. But so good were they throughout the 2023 Beach Pro Tour season that there was little sense in paying much attention to them in the […]

On April 26, Andy Benesh and Miles Partain hosted Italians Sam Cottafava and Paolo Nicolai for an exhibition match at Wave Beach, the San Diego-based facility that serves as their training center. For the first time of their careers, Benesh and Partain beat the Italians. Benesh was, he said later with an exhale, just glad […]

Thomas Jaeschke had 17 kills and an ace and the USA men bounced back with a 23-25, 25-15, 25-23, 25-14 victory ove Serbia  Friday at Vollyball Nations League. The Americans finish the second round by playing the home team, Canada, on Saturday. The USA improved to 3-4, while Canada (3-3) had the day off in […]

It’s over. At long last, after 17 months and nearly two dozen tournaments, the first and major leg of the Paris Olympic race is over, the last bid sealed up by Switzerland’s Zoe Verge-Depre and Esmee Bobner. Their ticket was punched in an agonizing manner, watching from the sidelines as Tokyo bronze medalists Anouk Verge-Depre […]

The USA men got swept by Italy on Thursday in Ottawa, Canada, in Volleyball Nations League. It dropped the team to 2-4 with a match against Serbia (2-3) on Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern. Sebria swept the Netherlands on Wednesday. Italy, strenghtening its effort to win a Paris Olympics bid, won 25-23, 26-24, 25-20 behind […]

USA Volleyball and coach Karch Kiraly announced the 2024 women’s Olympic team roster Wednesday and it includes some of the mainstays from the team that won gold in Tokyo in 2021. It also has new Olympic faces. While some of the slots on the 12-player, one-official alternate roster were all but inevitable, the three biggest […]