When it was all said and done, Russia came out victorious once again this year as they took out team USA.
Jul 18, 2019
At the end of a major tournament, it often seems like the silver medalists are the most disappointed team on the podium. Sure, the bronze medalists lost in the semifinals, but they finished the tournament with a win.
Jul 15, 2019
It wasn’t exactly the Curse of the Bambino, but the members of the U.S. men’s national volleyball team are no less relieved to have finally vanquished the semifinal curse that has kept them out of gold-medal matches in four major tournaments in the past four seasons.
Jul 14, 2019
A year and a few months after tearing his ACL, you’d have to say Thomas Jaeschke is officially back.
Jul 13, 2019
On the second day of Volleyball Nations League Final Round Pool Play, Poland defeated Iran and Russia swept France, results which locked in three of the four semifinalists for the tournament.
Jul 12, 2019
The men’s VNL Final Round begins Wednesday, with the six remaining teams battling it out for three nights of pool play before Saturday’s semifinals and Sunday’s medal rounds.
Jul 9, 2019
The U.S. women’s national team certainly didn’t take the easy road to a repeat Volleyball Nations League gold medal.
I’m just gonna put it out there: July 7, 2019, was a great day for women’s sports in the United States.
Before any of the 16 teams in the 2019 Volleyball Nations League launched a serve on Sunday, the final day of the preliminary rounds, the six teams that would advance to the Final Six had already been determined.
Jul 1, 2019
For the U.S. women’s national volleyball team, the road to a repeat gold medal at the Volleyball Nations League runs through Poland and Brazil.
Jun 30, 2019
In the final test run before results really start to matter for Team USA, the American squad takes on Bulgaria, Serbia, and Iran this week in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Jun 27, 2019
In the next week or so, USA head coach Karch Kiraly faces the difficult task of determining which 14 players from what is perhaps the world’s deepest pool of talent to bring with him to Nanjing, China, for the Volleyball Nations League Final Round, where the USA will seek to defend its 2018 title.
Jun 25, 2019
Playing at home in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the U.S. men’s national team finished Week 4 of the 2019 Volleyball Nations League with two wins and a loss and celebrated the season debuts of two veteran players.
Jun 24, 2019
In the final week of Volleyball Nations League preliminary play, the U.S. women’s national team collected three victories.
Jun 21, 2019
When Karch Kiraly announced his 25-player roster for the 2019 Volleyball Nations League, three names—Jordan Thompson, Mary Lake, and Dana Rettke—stood out from the other, more familiar players on the list, for one very notable reason: the trio has not yet completed their college eligibility.
Jun 20, 2019