The Professional Volleyball Federation leads off this report that features NCAA males’s volleyball, NCAA seashore volleyball, and the AVCA information of the week.
Skylar Fields, second within the NCAA in kills final season for USC and coming off her first professional season, has signed with the Orlando Valkyries. Fields, a flexible pin hitter who reunites with Orlando head coach Amy Pauly, who was an assistant at USC, will give the Valkyries a much-needed offense enhance.
In PVF motion the previous two days, the first-place Atlanta Vibe received in 4 units Monday on the Grand Rapids Rise after which Tuesday the sixth-place San Diego Mojos stunned the second-place Omaha Supernovas in 4.
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ORLANDO SIGNS FIELDS: Fields, a 6-foot-2 outdoors hitter who additionally performed proper facet throughout her first three years of faculty at Texas, led USC in kills the previous two seasons. The high-jumping, hard-hitting product of Missouri Metropolis, Texas, performed for UYBA Volley Busto Arsizio in Italy the previous three months.
“The addition of Skylar comes at an ideal time for our workforce,” Pauly mentioned. “As we head into the again half of the season and make our run for the playoffs, Skylar can be a invaluable new piece to our puzzle and one that can assist us tremendously.
“She’s a two-way participant with expertise on each pins, having performed outdoors in faculty and getting worldwide expertise as an reverse in Italy. She brings prompt hearth energy together with a championship mentality.”
Orlando put Melissa Evans on waivers to make room for Fields
Fields, a VolleyballMag.com first-team All-American who performed in 30 of USC’s 32 matches final season, completed the NCAA season with 617 kills, 15 behind Kayley Cassaday of Tulsa.
Evansville’s Giula Cardona led the NCAA at 5.34 kills per set, Fields was second in that class, too, at 5.14, tied with Cassaday, who performed in 33 matches.
We featured Fields final November:
VIBE 3, RISE 1: Atlanta (12-4) received 25-23, 25-10, 18-25, 25-23 at Grand Rapids (6-7) as Leah Edmond had 21 kills and Anna Lazareva 18. Edmond, who hit .450, had 13 digs and 6 blocks, 4 solo. Lazareva had 16 digs and 6 blocks, two solo. Leketor Member-Meneh had six kills, an ace, 13 digs and two blocks, one solo, and Shelly Fanning had six kills, two digs and 9 blocks, three solo. Marlie Monserez had 45 assists, 9 digs, 4 block assists and three kills.
The Rise have been led by Emiliya Dimitrova, who had 20 of her workforce’s 43 kills (Atlanta had 58), to go together with 13 digs and a block help. Claire Chausee had 9 kills however seven errors, two aces, seven digs and two blocks, one solo.
MOJO 3, OMAHA 1: San Diego (4-7) got here away with a 20-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-22 victory over visiting Omaha (10-5), which fell out of a first-place tie within the loss column.
Temi Thomas-Ailara led with 22 kills, 17 digs and 12 block help. Kendra Dahlke added 17 kills and had an ace, 11 digs and 6 blocks, two solo. Valeria Papa had 13 kills, an ace, 15 digs and 6 blocks, one solo. Nootsara Tomkom had 51 assists, 20 digs, a kill, an ace and 7 block assists.
Omaha bought half of its offensive manufacturing from Bethania De La Cruz, who had a franchise-record 26 kills, hitting .481, and added 13 digs, three blocks, an help and her league-leading twenty fourth ace of the season. Her teammates mixed for 26 kills.
HILLEY IS PVF POW: The league’s participant of the week is Omaha setter Sydney Hilley. Hilley averaged 12.2 assists for seven units, victories over Grand Rapids and Vegas. Within the two matches, she had 26 digs and totaled six kills.
THIS WEEK: The Columbus Fury go to Omaha on Thursday, on Saturday the Valkyries are at Grand Rapids, and Sunday Columbus is at San Diego. The Orlando-Grand Rapids match would be the league’s first on the CBS Sports activities Community cable community. All different matches have been streamed on YouTube.
NCAA males
UP NEXT: There are three matches Wednesday. In Convention Carolinas matches, first-place Belmont Abbey (15-4, 10-1) performs host to last-place Lees-McRae (1-24, 0-11), which has misplaced 18 in a row. Second-place North Greenville (11-8, 8-3) tries to maintain tempo when its is dwelling for King (6-16, 4-7). The SIAC’s Fort Valley State performs a non-league match towards Reinhardt.
Thursday’s schedule contains 4 MIVA matches, together with first-place Ball State (18-9, 11-3), which holds a one-game lead over idle No. 12 Loyola Chicago (17-9, 11-4), taking part in host to last-place Quincy , which has misplaced 16 in a row.
Additionally within the MIVA,No. 18 McKendree (14-9, 8-6) goes to No. 10 Ohio State (17-8, 10-5), No. 14 Lewis (15-12, 8-6) is at newly ranked No. 20 Purdue Fort Wayne (12-11, 6-8) and Lindenwood (11-11, 7-7) goes to Queens (9-17, 2-12).
Daemen of the NEC performs at Roberts Wesleyan of the ECC and impartial Maryville is on the SIAC’s Central State.
AVCA POLL: Lengthy Seaside State (20-1) remained a unanimous No. 1 and bought all 23 first-place votes. UCLA stayed No. 2, however Grand Canyon and Hawai’i moved up a spot every to No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, whereas UC Irvine dropped two spots to No. 5.
UC Santa Barbara dropped out and Purdue Fort Wayne is in at No. 20, ranked for the primary time since February 5.
Click on right here for the entire AVCA Nationwide Collegiate Males’s Volleyball Ballot.
AVCA POW: The nationwide participant of the week is George Mason’s Jack Bolz. The 6-foot-7 senior reverse from Park Ridge, Illinois, averaged 3.89 kills per set for the Patriots in victories over Sacred Coronary heart and Princeton.
SACRED HEART RETURNS: Sacred Coronary heart, which was a member of the EIVA from 1993-2022 earlier than heading to the NEC, will rejoin the EIVA in 2025. The EIVA at present has six groups.
“We’re very completely happy to have Sacred Coronary heart coming again to the EIVA,” commissioner Russ Yurk mentioned in a information launch. “With the college’s lengthy membership beforehand, there was already plenty of familiarity. Combining that with their plans for the longer term, there was little or no debate amongst our coaches concerning the determination.”
Click on right here for the full EIVA information launch.
EIVA HONORS SHAYKA: Ron Shayka would be the solely EIVA Corridor of Fame inductee this 12 months.
Shayka was an out of doors hitter for Penn State from 1978-81, a coach at a wide range of ranges, an administrator for practically 40 years at George Mason and for eight years served because the EIVA’s president. He can be honored through the EIVA Championship Event April 17-20.
NCAA seashore
AVCA POLL: After each groups went 4-0 at LSU’s Demise Volley Invitational final weekend, UCLA and Stanford moved into the highest two spots within the AVCA Collegiate Ballot.
UCLA went up a notch to No. 1 and bought 15 of the 23 first-place votes. Stanford is up a spot to No. 2 — its highest rating ever — and bought 5 first-place votes. USC dropped two spots to No. 3 and bought the opposite three first=place votes.
Florida State, now No. 4, traded locations with TCU. Cal Poly is up a spot to No. 7, LSU, which went 1-3 final weekend however upset USC, is up two spots to No. 10.
Nobody dropped out. Click on right here for the entire ballot.
AVCA POW: The nationwide seashore pair of the week is UCLA’s Natalie Myszkowski and Ensley Alden of UCLA, who went 4-0 on courtroom 5 for UCLA final weekend. Myszkowski, 6-foot junior from Manhattan Seaside, California, and Alden, a 5-10 freshman from Vista, California, didn’t lose a set as they beat pairs from Florida State, TCU, FAU and LSU.
THIS WEEK: Among the many top-ranked groups, USC (21-3), UCLA (19-4), Stanford (18-2) and Cal (15-7) go to Seattle for the Pac-12 North Invitational.
LSU (13-8) goes to a event at No. 19 Georgia State that features No. 17 Stetson.
FSU (20-5) is at dwelling for a gathering that features FAU (12-11), and TCU (19-5) has its personal event that features Texas and Hawai’i. Cal Poly (21-2), with losses solely to UCLA and USC, has a house match with No. 9 Lengthy Seaside State (18-4) on Saturday.