The AVCA Best & Brightest Award is an award meant to honor individual high school Senior student-athletes who excel on and off the court. To be eligible for the Best and Brightest Award, Senior student-athletes must have earned at least a 3.5 Unweighted/4.0 Weighted GPA (or the equivalent, if using a different GPA scale) during their junior year AND play in 50% of their varsity team’s sets during their senior season.
AVCA All-America awards will be announced Wednesday, June 24.
2026 AVCA Team Academic Award Nominations Now Accepted
In order for a team to earn the 2026 AVCA Team Academic Award, the entire team must achieve a minimum TEAM cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.30 (on a 4.00 scale), a 4.10 (on a 5.00 scale) or an 82.0 (on a 100-point scale) during the entire 2025-2026 academic year.
AVCA/MaxPreps Boys High School Players of the Week
View the list of athletes receiving to the 2026 AVCA/MaxPreps Player of the Week Award. In order for players to be featured on the list, coaches must update their athletes’ stats each week on MaxPreps.com.
The AVCA, in partnership with VolleyStation, has launched AVCA VolleyLine, a new digital hub that connects the volleyball community through accessible, reliable match results. AVCA VolleyLine, which is live now, gives you scores in one place.
The U.S. Men’s National Team defeated Türkiye 3-1 (25-20, 20-25, 25-20, 25-23) to begin 2026 Volleyball Nations League play on Wednesday in Ottawa, Canada. The U.S. finished fifth and Türkiye placed sixth at the 2025 FIVB World Championship.
The U.S. (1-0), ranked fifth in the world, will face 11th-ranked Germany on Friday at 1 p.m. PT.
USA Volleyball has announced the 26 athletes selected to the 2026 Beach Collegiate National Team (BCNT), featuring 13 women and 13 men. The athletes will participate in a training block June 8-17 in Hermosa Beach, Calif., where they will train alongside USA Volleyball’s Beach National Team Program athletes and coaches.
USA Volleyball set to host the Men’s Beach Collegiate Challenge with two premier events — one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast — representing the organization’s first coast-to-coast staging of the competition.
The 2026 edition moves the event to two vibrant beach volleyball hubs – Manhattan Beach, California, and Dania Beach, Florida.
The East Coast Challenge moves from Stevenson University in Maryland to the Rita Crockett Beach Sports Academy in Florida, Sept.
25-27, while the West Coast Challenge will be on the south side of the Manhattan Beach Pier, Oct.
9-11. Registration for both events is now open.
MiddleHitter.com: So You Want to Play College Volleyball: A Recruit’s Reckoning
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The Roncalli boys team won their fifth-straight state championship (and second IHSAA sanctioned) after defeating Indianapolis Cathedral 3-0 (25-21, 25-16, 25-13) on Saturday night at Lawrence North High School.
In the championship match, Glenbard West came back from a deficit midway through set three to win the state title with a 25-19, 22-25, 25-20 victory over Oak Park-River Forest. It was the sixth state title win in the last 11 years for the Hilltoppers, all under coach Christine Giunta-Mayer.
Grand Haven Captures First-Ever Michigan State Title
Grand Haven boys volleyball is the first-ever Division 1 boys volleyball state champions. The Bucs topped Lake Orion in four sets, 25-19, 25-11, 29-31 and 25-19.
The Moeller High School volleyball team is the Ohio state champion. Moeller defeated Hudson in the Division I boys volleyball state final Saturday afternoon at Wittenberg University. Moeller beat Hudson 31-29, 25-11 and 25-21.
De Smet won its second straight state championship, the first time in the program’s storied history that it went back to back, and won its fifth overall.
Boys volleyball is on the rise in Nebraska! The Great Plains Boys Volleyball League just finished their second high school season where they saw a 142% growth in participation from year 1 to year 2 and doubled the amount of teams participating.
The Great Plains Region, region of USA Volleyball, created the League in 2025 with the goal of providing a low-commitment, low-cost opportunity for boys to try the sport for the first time, allow additional playing opportunities for those who also compete in club, and with the ultimate goal of getting the activity to be a sanctioned high school sport through the NSAA (Nebraska School Activities Association).
Lincoln South and Burke battled it out in a 5-set thriller match for the State Championship, with a final set score of 16-14, with Lincoln South earning the 2026 State title.
Sarah Lawrence College Athletics has announced the new hire of Mauro Miletic
to head the school’s men’s and women’s volleyball programs starting in the 2026-27 academic year.
Barry University Athletics announced the addition of Men’s Beach Volleyball earlier in February and have now announced Sebastian Abreu
to lead the program that will begin their first competitive season in Fall 2026.
