One of the top amateur beach volleyball players and a junior college transfer will join Lincoln Memorial for the upcoming season.
Coach John Cash recently announced that libero Jacob Miller and middle attacker Lucas Chazo have both committed to the Railsplitters. (more…)
Off the Block reported a series a racial incidents that occurred within the Ball State men’s volleyball program from 2013-18.
Former All-MIVA setter Jake Romano was among the Ball State players Off the Block interviewed for this article. Off the Block has released the interview with Romano to allow people to hear his account of events in his own words.
Click on the audio file above to hear the interviews with Romano. (more…)
Off the Block reported a series a racial incidents that occurred within the Ball State men’s volleyball program from 2013-18.
Among the former Black Ball State players Off the Block interviewed for this article were Lem Turner and Julian Welsh-White. Off the Block has released the interview with Turner and Welsh-White to allow people to hear the players’ accounts in their own words.
Click on the audio file above to hear the interviews with Turner and Welsh-White. (more…)
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Off the Block conducted a series of interviews regarding racial incidents within the Ball State men’s volleyball program that occurred from 2013 to 2018. Below are some of the findings reported in this story
Lem Turner sat alone in his room.
The typical college party was taking place downstairs in his off-campus house and filled with his Ball State men’s volleyball teammates. Yet, Turner was upstairs crying. (more…)
Stanford libero Justin Lui will get an extended look with the Canadian Men’s National Team this offseason.
Volleyball Canada, the country’s national governing body for the sport, recently announced that Lui was among the 18 players selected to participate in the National Excellence Program. (more…)
A podium finish at an international beach volleyball event barely eluded Ohio State outside attacker Sotiris Siapanis.
Siapanis representing his home nation of Cyprus finished in fourth place at the CEV U20 Beach Volleyball European Championship that concluded Sunday in Brno, Czech Republic.
Siapanis and his teammate Odysseas Savvides lost to the Italian duo of Gianluca Dal Corso and Marco Viscovich 21-19, 21-14 in the bronze-medal match on Sunday. The Cyprus pair was eliminated from gold medal contention earlier in the day following a semifinals loss to Swedish pair of Jonatan Hellvig and David Ahman.
Siapanis and Savvides reached the semifinals after winning their first three matches in the knock-out stage of the tournament. In addition, the team went undefeated in pool-play and won the Pool G title to qualify for the knock-out stage.
This was the second international tournament for Siapanis in recent weeks.
The freshman playing for the Cyprus Men’s National Team was among the offensive leaders at the EuroVolley qualification tournament.
Siapanis was fourth at the tournament with 73 kills and had double-digit kills in four matches. He also was in the tournament’s top 10 with a 43.45 percent offensive efficiency and a .280 attack percentage.
Siapanis will now join the Buckeyes for the 2021 season. Ohio State ended the shortened 2020 season at 11-8 and opened the season on a six-match winning steak.
Concordia-Irvine will have plenty of depth in the upcoming seasons.
The Eagles announced earlier this week their largest recruiting class in program history with 14 players joining the team for the 2021 season. (more…)
A finalist for the Lloy Ball Award is switching schools.
Concordia-Irvine announced earlier this week that setter Oscar Fiorentino has transferred from Barton and will join the Eagles for the 2021 season. (more…)
Outside attacker Sotiris Siapanis will arrive at Ohio State after finishing among the offensive leaders at an international tournament.
Siapanis playing his home country of Cyprus finished in the top 10 for kills, attack percentage and offensive efficiency at the CEV EuroVolley qualification tournament that concluded this weekend in Cyprus. (more…)
A tournament-finale sweep was not enough for Spain and NJIT outside attacker Alvaro Gimeno to earn a berth to the 2021 EuroVolley tournament.
Gimeno coming off the bench had two kills as Spain swept the Republic of Moldova 25-23, 25-22, 25-23 on Sunday in Cyprus to move into a first-place tie with Latvia but lost the tiebreaker to miss out on the only EuroVolley bid at the qualification tournament. (more…)