Whereas Athletes Limitless Volleyball heads into its upcoming season, and League One will announce its sixth and ultimate membership for subsequent 12 months, Professional Volleyball Federation that continued to make information these previous few weeks.
PVF introduced Devonie McLarty as director of officers. Apart from being the goal of followers’ misplaced anger, she’s going to function a liaison between league groups, coaches, and officers. Will probably be her duty to determine an efficient system of observing the efficiency of officers, line judges, and scorers in addition to coaching and grading them.
McLarty’s longtime officiating expertise consists of working within the NCAA, NJCAA, and NAIA and FIVB, and he or she is a member of the Skilled Affiliation of Volleyball Officers board of administrators.
“We’re thrilled to have attracted somebody the caliber of Devonie to be our director of officers,” mentioned Dr. Cecile Reynaud, Professional Volleyball Federation’s vp of volleyball operations. “Devonie’s background and expertise speaks for itself, and he or she has a lot enthusiasm and pleasure about becoming a member of Professional Volleyball Federation, and about officiating total.”
PVF has introduced on former Stanford and USA nice Logan Tom as its director of worldwide improvement and participant technique. Tom, who performed in 12 international locations and has been teaching Israel, will, in keeping with the PVF, domesticate relationships with different volleyball companies and federations each home and overseas, and act as a liaison between these organizations and PVF gamers with a deal with participant security and wellness.
Tom, a Worldwide Volleyball Corridor of Famer who, at 19, grew to become the youngest lady ever to be chosen to the USA Olympic crew, made her Olympic debut on the 2000 Sydney Video games. Tom performed in 4 Olympics and was on the USA groups that received silver medals in 2008 and 2012.
On the crew degree, on the end-of-business on Tuesday, August 29, (Volleyball Day in Nebraska Eve) the PVF’s Omaha Supernovas introduced they’d offered over 2,750 season tickets on their first official day of sale. You realize, simply in case anybody doubted Nebraskans likes their volleyball.
The Orlando Valkyries have been busy. They introduced Gordon Mayforth as an assistant. Mayforth has 21 years of teaching expertise with stops in Greece, Japan, Puerto Rico, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Cyprus.
Orlando additionally has signed gamers because it comes near filling out a roster that features:
— Former Indiana libero Paula Cerame;
— Wilma Rivera, who performed at Louisville and Penn State and who has performed professionally in Germany, Sweden, France, and Puerto Rico;
— Rice setter Carly Graham, who’s at the moment an assistant at Texas State and performed professional final 12 months in Montegro; and former Purdue center Blake Mohler, who has performed in Germany, Switzerland and France;
— Kentucky center Kaz Brown, who may even play for Athletes Limitless within the fall. Browns has performed professional within the Ukraine, Germany, France, and Greece;
— Canadian reverse Shaïnah Joseph, who performed at Florida and has performed in Bulgaria, Taipei, the Philippines, Japa, and France;
— Aury Cruz, who has performed AU and can once more. The Puerto Rican exterior has hung out in Italy, Spain, South Korea, and Azerbaijan;
— Outdoors Vanessa Agbortabi, who has performed for 5 completely different professional groups in her dwelling nation of Germany in addition to in France and Türkiye;
— Madison Villines, who performed at Kansas and has performed for AU and in Puerto Rico;
— Carly Skjodt, the previous Michigan standout now enjoying professional seaside;
— Adeola Owokoniran, the Duke product who has performed in Finland.
The Grand Rapids Rise introduced on former Penn State center Nia Grant, whose professional profession has taken her to Thailand, France, Germany, Poland and Italy. Because the Athletes Limitless 2021 season, she in the reduction of after the beginning of her daughter.
“With this being the inaugural season of PVF, I’m excited to have the ability to play and assist the youthful gamers develop to allow them to lead this league for years to return,” Grant mentioned. “I’m extraordinarily honored that coach Cathy (George) would need me round for this particular second and provides me an opportunity to play postpartum, as a result of lots of people are hesitant about how girls can carry out after having a child. I do know that she believes in me, and I can’t wait to do my finest for her and this crew.”
Certainly one of Grand Rapids’ earliest signees, Symone Abbott, is a volunteer coach this season at IUPUI.
“I actually wanted a spot to coach at a excessive degree earlier than the PVF season begins, and I additionally wanted that place to be near dwelling, and IUPUI was the proper answer,” Abbott mentioned. “Practices have already started and every part’s going tremendous properly. It’s mutually useful as a result of I get to coach, and I additionally get to share some issues I’ve realized with the women whereas actively competing with them throughout observe. I’m very blissful to be right here!”
The Columbus Fury have introduced a pair extra Buckeyes into the fold. OSU Corridor of Famer and former assistant coach Audrey Flaugh is now the crew’s neighborhood cmbassador.
Former Ohio State exterior Kylie Randall might be placing her bachelor’s diploma in communication evaluation and observe to make use of as VP of promoting and communications.
The Fury additionally signed Kayla Lund, the previous Pitt nice, who was a two-time ACC MVP and most lately performed in Switzerland.
