Professional Ladies
December 8, 2023
A bevy of stories objects from the upstart home League One Volleyball and Professional Volleyball Federation teams crossed my desk over the previous couple of days. Essentially the most vital ones got here from LOVB, which is scheduled to start its season in November of 2024. The PVF revealed an Indianapolis staff would come aboard in 2025.
Barbolini, Miyashiro be a part of LOVB
League One Volleyball disclosed on Thursday that Massimo Barbolini and Tama Miyashiro will coach.
Barbolini, 59, is a global teaching legend, sporting an enormous resume with the Turkish and Italian girls’s nationwide groups.
Below his steering, these squads have earned greater than 30 medals in worldwide competitions. Barbolini coached the Italian staff to a fifth-place end within the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a sixth-place end within the 2012 London Video games. He will likely be an assistant coach for the Italian girls’s squad within the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Barbolini coached for the Turkish girls from 2013-2015. Total, his trophy case numbers two World Cups, two European Championships, one Grand Champions Cup and, in 2023, the CEV Cup Championship. He additionally has in depth teaching expertise in European professional leagues.
Miyashiro, 36, moved into an assistant-coaching position with the USA girls’s nationwide staff beneath Karch Kiraly within the spring of 2017 after a taking part in profession that included incomes an Olympic silver medal with our squad in 2012.
The league didn’t announce which groups Barbolini and Miyashiro would coach.
“This chance really is an honor and I’m excited to educate within the inaugural season of LOVB,” Miyashiro stated. “One of many issues I’m most enthusiastic about is continuous to push our sport ahead at a professional and membership stage within the U.S. I stay up for working with elite athletes and the youth neighborhood, and most of all simply seeing how far we will go.”
Throughout her teaching tenure with Workforce USA, it has gained the gold medal on the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Video games, taken FIVB Volleyball Nations League titles in 2018 and ‘19 and picked up a bronze medal on the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup. Miyashiro has been liable for teaching serve-receive and ground protection.
She was a two-time VBM nationwide defensive participant of the 12 months (2007 and ‘08) because the record-smashing libero for the Washington Huskies.
“Tama is a incredible coach with extremely excessive character,” Kiraly stated when she was employed as a full-time assistant with the nationwide staff in 2021. “I don’t know that I’ve met anybody extra selfless than Tama, each as a participant and as a coach.
“She has been the driving drive relating to coaching and instructing our passers. It’s not a coincidence that our passing efficiency was off the charts in Tokyo.”
Extra LOVB happenings
“Founding athletes” have been named for the LOVB franchises in Madison, Salt Lake Metropolis and Omaha, which additionally revealed logos and staff “branding,” though none received the nicknames which are generally present in American professional leagues
LOVB Omaha Volleyball’s preliminary key cog will likely be sensational libero Justine Wong-Orantes, the previous Nebraska All-American and one of many stars of the USA staff that gained Tokyo Olympic gold.
“I really feel like I’m returning to a house that I’m very acquainted with and my profession principally began there,” Wong-Orantes instructed VBM contributor Lincoln Arneal throughout a telephone interview from Germany. “Returning to Nebraska actually has a particular place in my coronary heart. It feels prefer it’s coming full circle.
“(Omaha is) going to be an enormous marketplace for us. We already see that with the faculty volleyball there, so I’m so excited for professional volleyball to be there as properly.” …
LOVB Madison Volleyball could have setter Lauren Carlini, a legend as a Wisconsin Badger, as its anchor participant. A 3-time first-team AVCA All-American, Carlini has been within the USA nationwide staff’s gymnasium since 2017.
“To be again house not solely on house soil, however house in a state that has introduced me a lot pleasure and happiness over time and nice reminiscences and relationships is unbelievable,” Carlini instructed the media, including she is happy to return to Madison “on an expert stage and constructing one thing from the bottom up.” …
LOVB Salt Lake Volleyball (are we seeing the widespread theme?) named two founding athletes with Western roots, center hitter Haleigh Washington and setter Jordyn Poulter, each of whom earned gold medals within the 2021 Olympics.
Former Penn State All-American Washington was named the Greatest Center Blocker within the 2021 Video games. Poulter, an All-American at Illinois, earned the Greatest Setter award in Tokyo. Each grew up in Colorado.
“I really feel like Colorado and Utah are related in plenty of methods, however I feel the views in Salt Lake Metropolis are higher than Denver,” Poulter instructed the media. “The proximity to the mountains is basically cool.” …
PVF provides Indy
Indianapolis was introduced on Thursday because the Professional Volleyball Federation’s tenth market. The staff’s first season will likely be 2025.
In a launch from PVF, Jim Schumacher and Don Hutchinson have been named because the founding homeowners for Indianapolis Professional Volleyball. Schumacher is a principal with the Indianapolis personal fairness agency GRE Capital. Hutchinson is a principal at Goelzer Funding Administration and heads the Institutional Advisory Group. Each have volleyball ties of their personal lives.
The franchise’s title and brand, government workers, teaching workers and taking part in venue will likely be disclosed at a later date.
In line with the discharge, the outstanding MaxPreps web site that covers high-school sports activities rated Indiana as one of many high 5 states for volleyball. The Hoosier State has 56 schools with volleyball packages.
Extra PVF doings
The San Diego Mojo employed veteran Dietre Collins-Parker as an assistant coach to assist Tayyiba Haneef-Park.
Collins-Parker, 61, was an assistant at Arizona through the 2023 faculty season and in 2022 coached for the professional Athletes Limitless group. She has gained convention coach of the 12 months honors at San Diego State (Mountain West, 2012) and Nevada-Las Vegas (Western Athletic, 1998) and led her groups at Cornell to 3 Ivy League titles and two NCAA Event appearances.
Throughout a extremely adorned taking part in profession, Collins-Parker was a member of the U.S. Olympic girls’s staff on the 1998 Seoul Video games and was the nationwide collegiate participant of the 12 months competing for Hawaii in 1983 and ‘84.
In a quote posted on the social-media platform previously often called Twitter, Collins-Parker stated, “I can’t ask for a greater strategy to be concerned than getting the chance to educate with Tayyiba. I consider in her imaginative and prescient for our program and her capacity to construct a aggressive staff.” …
In different Mojo information, the staff will play its house matches at Viejas Area, a 12,000-seat venue on the campus of San Diego State. The Mojo began accepting deposits for season tickets on December 1, with $50 wanted per seat. Their first house match will likely be on February 23 (a Friday) in opposition to the Grand Rapids Rise. Gamers will report back to coaching camp on January 7. …
The Rise will provide some fan-friendly costs on concessions all through their 12-match slate at Van Andel Area. Matches on Thursday and Saturday evenings could have $2 sizzling canines and $2 home draft beer from 6 p.m. to eight p.m. Their 4 Sunday afternoon occasions will characteristic $1 small Pepsi drinks and $1 small ice cream cups from 3 p.m. to five p.m. The Rise held a free two-hour “Meet the Workforce Showcase” on Thursday night time at Van Andel. And the franchise started promoting single-match tickets, priced from $19 to $38. Walkups on recreation nights should buy tickets with no service cost on the area field workplace. …
The PVF’s official volleyball will likely be made by the Franklin Sports activities producer and has been branded the Franklin REAL Professional Volleyball. The league and Franklin Sports activities have entered right into a multiyear partnership. A launch stated that the ball’s “cutting-edge” options embrace “a particular cowl materials, a 12-panel design, and an modern wave floor texture.” …
The league will maintain a five-round faculty draft for its seven franchises competing within the inaugural 2024 season on Monday in Atlanta. The primary-round draft order: 1. Columbus Fury; 2. San Diego Mojo; 3. Vegas Thrill; 4. Grand Rapids Rise; 5. Orlando Valkyries; 6. Atlanta Vibe; 7. Omaha Supernovas. Groups in subsequent rounds will choose in a snake format.