On this report, we compensate for the Professional Volleyball Federation — which introduced the location of its inaugural championship collection — NCAA seashore, USA Volleyball summer time nationwide groups and NCAA males.
Professional Volleyball Federation
Not surprisingly, the first-year league will play its semifinals and last in Omaha in Might.
From the PVF information launch:
Professional Volleyball Federation has introduced that its first championship will happen in a metropolis that helps skilled volleyball like no different in the USA – Omaha, Nebraska. The semifinals on Might 15 and title match on Might 18 will happen on the CHI Well being Middle and be broadcast nationally on CBS Sports activities Community.
The house of the Omaha Supernovas has already established the attendance normal for skilled volleyball in America, with 4 of the highest 5 U.S. attendance data coming this season – together with the entire high three marks.
STANDINGS: Atlanta holds a one-game lead within the win column over Omaha.
1. Atlanta Vibe (9-4)
2. Omaha Supernovas (8-4)
3. Grand Rapids Rise (6-5)
4. Columbus Fury (5-5)
5. Orlando Valkyries (5-8)
6. Vegas Thrill (5-9)
7. San Diego Mojo (3-6)
WHAT’S AHEAD: On Wednesday, Columbus is at Atanta. Thursday, Grand Rapids is at Omaha. Friday reveals Orlando at Columbus and there are two matches Saturday as Vegas is at Omaha and San Diego at Atlanta.
RECAPS: Atlanta, San Diego and Grand Rapids received matches since our final report.
On Sunday, Columbus beat the Vibe 25-22, 27-29, 25-21, 25-23 as Reagan Cooper had 24 factors on 22 kills, an ace and a solo block. She additionally had 14 digs. Asjia O’Neal had 17 kills, an ace and 4 blocks, one solo. Samantha Drechsel had 9 kills, 9 digs and 7 block assists. Valeria Leon had 16 digs and 4 assists and new setter Tori Stringer had 51 assists, 10 digs, 5 blocks — one solo — two kills and two aces.
Anna Lazareva led Atlanta with 19 kills, two aces, seven digs and three blocks, two solo. Leah Edmond added 17 kills, an ace, 9 digs and 4 blocks, three solo. Shelly Fanning had 10 kills, two aces, and 9 blocks, three solo. Jehlarova Magdalena had 4 kills, two digs and 11 blocks, three solo. Setter Marlie Monserez had an ace and two kills to go along with her 50 assists and 16 digs and Morgan Hentz had 14 digs …
San Diego swept Vegas 25-21, 25-23, 25-16. Temi Thomas-Ailara led with 16 kills and added two aces, seven digs and 4 blocks, one solo. Ronika Stone had 9 kills and 4 solo blocks, Lindsey Vander Weide had 9 kills, 13 digs and two solo blocks, and Valeria Papa had 11 digs, six digs and two blocks assists. Nootsara Tomkom had 41 assists, six digs and three block assists.
Gabby Gonzales led the Thrill with 10 kills, eight digs and a block help …
Tuesday, Grand Rapids beat the Thrill 25-22, 24-26, 25-17, 30-28. Emiliya Dimitrova led with 21 kills, six digs, two assists and 7 blocks, two solo. Claire Chaussee had 16 kills, an ace, three assists, 11 digs and two blocks, one solo. Marin Grote had 9 kills with no errors in 18 assaults, an ace, three digs and 6 blocks, three solo. Ashley Evans had 50 assists, 13 digs and 7 blocks, three solo.
Vegas, which pulled off the one reverse sweep within the league, was so near forcing a fifth set. Khat Bell had 25 factors on 20 kills, an ace and 4 solo blocks. Bell additionally had an help and 16 digs. Kenna Sauer had 11 kills, two aces, 5 digs and two blocks, one solo. Kylie Murr had 22 digs and 5 assists and Alisha Glass Childress had 48 assists, 10 digs, a kill and 4 blocks, two solo.
PVF POW: The Columbus Fury’s O’Neal, the star center who led Texas to the NCAA title, is the league’s participant of the week. She’s the primary center to win the award. O’Neal, who has been injured a lot of the early a part of the season, had 13 kills in a win over Grand Rapids after which 17 whereas hitting .556 towards Atlanta.
NCAA seashore
AVCA TOP 20: The highest six groups — all of whom will probably be at No. 10 LSU’s Dying Volley Invitational on Friday and Saturday – stayed the identical.
They’re, so as, USC, UCLA, Stanford, TCU, Florida State and Cal.
Cal Poly moved up two spots to No. 7, adopted by Lengthy Seaside State, Loyola Marymount and LSU. Nobody dropped out.
We’ll have extra on the extremely loaded event at LSU on Thursday. Click on right here for the full AVCA Collegiate Seaside Ballot.
AVCA POW: The AVCA nationwide pair of the week is TCU’s Hailey Hamlet and Anhelina Khmil. Hamlet, a junior from New Braunfels, Texas, and Khmil, a sophomore from Ukraine, dropped one set at No. 1 in wins over FGCU, FIU, Washington and Arizona State.
USA Volleyball
Faculty-coaching names you understand will probably be main USA Volleyball nationwide groups this summer time.
The ladies’s U21 nationwide crew, which performs within the NORCECA Ladies’s Continental Championship in Toronto, together with BYU’s Heather Olmstead as head coach and Stanford’s Alex Dunphy and Nebraska’s Jaylen Reyes as her assistants.
The U19 squad that may play within the Women Continental Championship in Honduras as Texas A&M head coach Jamie Morrison as the top coach and Minnesota head coach Keegan Cook dinner as one assistant and LOVB’s Michelle Chatman as the opposite.
And the Ladies’s Collegiate nationwide crew contains Chris McGown of Gold Medal Squared as head coach and LOVB’s Suzie Fritz and five-time Olympian Danielle Scott as assistants.
Click on right here for the USA Volleyball information launch.
NCAA males
WHAT’S AHEAD: There are six matches on the schedule Wednesday, none involving ranked groups. In Convention Carolinas, the 4 matches present first-place Belmont Abbey at Emmanuel, the groups tied for second-place going at it as Erskine making an attempt to shut the two-game hole at North Greenville, Mount Olive at Barton and Lees-McRae at King.
Within the SIAC, Fort Valley State performs Morehouse and the SIAC’s Edward Waters goes out of convention to face Warner of the NAIA.
There are three MIVA matches Thursday, together with No. 8 Ohio State at No. 18 McKendree and No. 12 Ball State at No. 14 Lewis. Queens performs at No. 13 Loyola. Emmanuel of Convention Carolinas is dwelling for impartial Tusculum and within the ECC Dominican performs at St. Thomas Aquinas.
AVCA TOP 20: Lengthy Seaside State stayed a unanimous No. 1, however UCLA moved up a spot to No. 2 and UC Irvine did the identical to No. 3. Fourth-ranked Grand Canyon is up a notch, whereas Hawai’i is down three spots to No. 5. Nobody dropped out.
Click on right here for the whole AVCA Collegiate Males’s Volleyball Ballot.
AVCA POW: The AVCA nationwide males’s participant of the week is BYU exterior Luke Benson. In back-to-back five-set wins over Pepperdine, Benson, a junior from Newbury Park, California, averaged 4.7 kills per set, hit .412 and averaged a half a block per set.
RECAPS: In Monday’s solely match, Lincoln Memorial (18-5) swept Missouri S&T (10-12) in a battle of independents. LM hit .531 because it received kills from six gamers, eight with no errors in 10 assaults by Justin Sharenaker … The identical groups went at Tuesday and the outcome was the identical. Sharfenaker once more had eight kills and so did Eliel Salva Torres …
Additionally Tuesday, Central State (4-21, 2-3) swept its SIAC match at Kentucky State (3-12, 2-3). 9 Central State gamers had kills, eight every by Tyrone Sands and Nicholaus Gooden-Brooks … the NEC’s Sacred Coronary heart (8-14) swept on the ECC’s American Worldwide (2-13) as 10 of its gamers had kills … Two Convention Carolinas groups received non-league matches as Barton (11-9) swept Virginia Wesleyan and North Greenville (10-8) beat impartial Tusculum (6-19) in 4. NG’s Diego Rosich had 15 kills, hit .344 and had six digs … and impartial Maryville (20-5) received in 4 on the MIVA’s Quincy (5-16).