KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee’s highly-touted incoming freshman Izzy Mogridge received an invite to play on the 2025 U.S. Girls U19 National Team, USA Volleyball announced Monday.
 
Being identified as some of the top players in the country for their age group, 19 athletes were selected for the team. Mogridge will compete at training camp from June 1-7 at the Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Should she make the 12-member roster, she would compete for Team USA at the 2025 FIVB U19 World Championship in Osijek, Croatia and Belgrade, Serbia.
  
A native of Lutz, Florida, Mogridge was chosen as one of 26 prep standouts across the country to play in the 2025 Under Armour All-American Game in January. She plays club volleyball for OTVA Tampa with fellow UT signee Maggie Dostic and attended Berkeley Prep.
 
The Class 3A Player of the Year, Mogridge helped Berkeley Prep to a state runner-up finish in the Florida Championships. In the regional semifinal, she recorded a triple-double with 11 kills, 15 digs and 13 assists. Over her final two seasons of high school, she tallied 997 assists, 437 kills, 311 digs, 99 aces and 67 blocks.

2025 U19 National Team Roster for World Championship

(Name, Pos., Birth Year, Height, Hometown, School in 2024)

Henley Anderson (OPP/OH, 6-3, 2007, Dripping Springs, Texas, Dripping Springs HS)

Logan Bell (L, 5-11, 2007, Beech Grove, Ind., Roncalli HS, Hoosier)

Kalyssa Blackshear (MB/OPP, 6-4, 2007, Torrance, Calif., University of Louisville)

Suli Davis (OH, 6-1, 2007, Euless, Texas, Brigham Young University)

Abbey Emch (MB, 6-3, 2007, New Waterford, Ohio, University of Pittsburgh)

Genevieve Harris (S, 5-11, 2007, Raleigh, N.C, Cardinal Gibbons HS)

Lily Hayes (L, 5-9, 2007, Tampa, Fla., Berkeley Prep HS)

Isabelle Hoppe (S, 5-8, 2008, Gibsonia, Pa., Pine Richland HS)

Kelly Kinney (OH/OPP, 6-2, 2007, West Palm Beach, Fla., The Kings Academy)

Lameen Mambu (OH, 6-0, 2007, Chantilly, Va., Georgia Tech)

Izzy Mogridge (S, 5-11, 2007, Lutz, Fla., Berkeley Prep HS)

Gabrielle Nichols (MB, 6-3, 2007, Winston Salem, N.C., Penn State University)

Cari Spears (OH, 6-3, 2007, Dallas, Texas, University of Texas)

Jordan Taylor (MB, 6-5, 2007, Houston, Texas, University of Minnesota)

Charlotte Vinson (OPP, 6-2, 2007, Muncie, Ind., Yorktown HS)

Natalie Wardlow (MB/OPP, 6-5, 2007, Lincoln, Neb., Lincoln Southeast HS)

Aniya Warren (L, 5-8, 2007, Lockport, Ill., Benet Academy)

Ayanna Watson (OH/OPP, 6-3, 2007, Henderson, Nev., Bishop Gorman HS)

Devyn Wiest (OH, 6-3, 2007, Peoria, Ariz., University of Utah)

IRVINE, Calif. – University of Hawai’i head coach Charlie Wade was named the Big West Men’s Volleyball Coach of the Year for the third time in four seasons after leading the Rainbow Warriors to the Big West Championship title over the weekend.
 
Wade was also named Coach of the Year in 2022 (co-COY) and 2023.
 
In his 16^th season at UH, he has guided Hawai’i to two national titles (2021, ’22), four Big West Championship titles (2019, ’22, ’23, ’25), two Big West regular season titles (2021, ’23), and seven NCAA Tournament appearances (2015, ’17, ’19, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’25).
 
UH (26-5) finished runner-up in the regular season this season but captured the tournament title with wins over UC Irvine in the semifinal and regular season champion Long Beach State in the finals. The Warriors were selected the No. 2 overall seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament in Columbus, Ohio and will meet either Daemen or Penn State in the quarterfinal round.
 
Hawai’i’s win over UC Irvine last Friday was Wade’s 317^th career victory which pushed him past Mike Wilton as the program’s all-time winningest coach. Wade is the fifth winningest active coach in NCAA Division I-II and is among a select group of 22 coaches all-time to surpass 300 career victories.
 
Long Beach State freshman setter Moni Nikolov received both the Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards.
 
Big West Award Winners
Player of the Year – Moni Nikolov, Long Beach State
Freshman of the Year – Moni Nikolov, Long Beach State
Coach of the Year – Charlie Wade, Hawai’i

 

#HawaiiMVB

 
 
 
 

Can any team defeat No. 1 Mira Costa in girls’ beach volleyball?

We’ll find out this week as the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals will be held in Southern Section Division 1.

Edison will take the first chance against Mira Costa in the quarterfinals on Tuesday. The other matchups have Santa Margarita facing Los Alamitos, Redondo Union taking on San Marcos and San Juan Hills playing JSerra.

Redondo Union has the only win against Mira Costa this season.

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The championships will be Saturday at Long Beach City College.

The City Section will hold its beach championships on Friday at Santa Monica State Beach. Venice is seeded No. 1 in the 16-team field.

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Just last week I wrote about how deep and talented the boys’ volleyball league is this season — and then the teams went out and proved it, throwing the league into some chaos heading into Tuesday night’s final match of the regular season.

De La Salle and Foothill were tied with the best record in East Bay Athletic League play at 8-2. Amador Valley and San Ramon Valley both sat at 7-3, with Dublin looming at 6-4.

Everything pointed to the Falcons winning a pair and going into the regular season finale at 10-2, with Amador Valley at 9-3. De La Salle appeared headed to the finale also at 10-2.

But this is why they play the games.

Foothill lost not once but twice, falling 3-1 to Livermore and then 3-2 to California, leaving the Falcons at 8-4 in the league. Livermore and California came into last week at 3-7 in league.

“The boys got a lesson in how tough and deep the EBAL is,” Foothill coach Dusty Collins said. “There’s not a team in the league that can’t beat any other team.”

Need any further proof?

Monte Vista entered last week 1-9, then fell to 1-10 after losing to Amador Valley. The Mustangs then had to face De La Salle.

No problem.

Monte Vista went out and beat 9-2 De La Salle to give the Spartans their third loss of the season.

While it appears the crazy week threw the league into chaos, the reality is nothing major has changed heading into Tuesday’s final league games.

The top two teams each, in the Valley and the Mountain divisions, meet in the EBAL playoffs, with the semifinals taking place Thursday and the two winners meeting Saturday in the EBAL playoff title in the balance.

In the Valley, Amador Valley and Foothill have the top two spots secured so Tuesday’s regular season finale will determine the top seed and who gets a home playoff game on Thursday. The Dons win and they host No. 2 from the Mountain, or if the Falcons win, they host.

In the Mountain Division, De La Salle and San Ramon Valley have the top two spots. The Spartans close against the same California team that just dropped Foothill, with San Ramon Valley finishing a Monte Vista team fresh off a win over De La Salle.

It’s no gimme for anyone! The league is so deep this year that there should be seven of the 10 teams in the EBAL that will make the North Coast Section playoffs.

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With two weeks to go in the regular season, the strength of the league lies in the Valley as three of the top four records reside in the Valley, with the Mountain having the bottom three teams in terms of win-loss record.

Granada was close to running off and hiding with another Valley title, but Foothill hung the first EBAL loss on Granada. The Mats did rally for a 1-0 win over Foothill later in the week.

Granada is 16-4 overall and 8-1 in league play. Livermore is 5-3 in the Valley and does control its own destiny with a game with De La Salle, and a pair of two-game sets with Foothill and Granada left in the season.

And on the flip side, those are five games with teams that are 16-4, 15-3 and 15-5, respectively. There is no question the Cowboys will be battle-tested by the time the postseason rolls around.

De La Salle has a three-game lead over California in the Mountain, but the Spartans have six games to play over the last two weeks, meaning DLS will need to find pitching depth during that span.

Softball

There is a lot of softball to be played still with California and Carondelet sporting the best EBAL records at 7-2, with San Ramon Valley and Foothill at 6-3, and Granada and Livermore sitting at 5-4.

Carondelet, as mentioned last week, is the toughest to figure out with the 7-2 league record and 9-11 overall mark. The Cougars close out the regular season with a game with California and that may very well determine the Mountain winner.

Foothill is on top of the Valley but has games with Livermore, Granada and Amador Valley — the three teams chasing them — so it is still a wide-open race!

Editor’s note: Dennis Miller is a contributing sports writer for the Pleasanton Weekly. This column originally appeared in Tri-Valley Preps Playbook, a weekly sports e-newsletter published by Embarcadero Media Foundation.

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The CCSA championship stage was set on the sand with LSU fighting for its victories last weekend in a trying 1-2 matchup.

For the first time in program history, LSU hosted the conference championship for beach volleyball. Tiger alumni and Olympians Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth Brasher were in attendance for the historic moment.

However, LSU fell in two out of three of its matches between Florida State University and South Carolina.

Before the competition kicked off, it was announced that LSU’s graduate student Gabi Bailey and senior Parker Bracken were named the Pair of the Year with All-Conference honors. Following their success was freshman Camryn Chatellier, who was named to the CCSA All-Freshman Team.

“We’ve had a great tradition of really good freshmen over the history of our program,” LSU head coach Russell Brock said. “This year we had three who played big roles for our season. For Cam to represent that group is really impressive.”

Starting on Friday, No. 3 seed LSU set out on the sand to face off the No. 2 seed FSU, where it fell court by court against the Seminoles.

The only two players on the sand who were able to secure a point in LSU’s favor were fifth-year senior Emily Meyer and sophomore Skylar Martin on Court 5, going 24-22 and 21-15.

Despite its 3-1 loss against FSU, the Tigers kept their heads held high as they moved on to compete against No. 4 seed South Carolina.

The Gamecocks came in swinging as senior Rachel Hartman and graduate student Riley Whitesides took Court 2 from LSU senior Aubrey O’Gorman and Chatellier, 21-18 and 21-14.

With one point on the board against it, LSU pushed through its previous loss and brought home Courts 3, 4 and 5 with Meyer and Martin scoring 21-19 in both matches against USC’s sophomore Lauren Lawson and junior VB Trost.

From there, the Tigers were able to slap their name on the CCSA bracket for the next day of competition, where they would face FSU once more on Saturday.

“I’m really glad we did enough today to get to tomorrow. I don’t think we played our best, but it was enough to get a big win and to advance in the bracket,” Brock said. “I know we have a lot more in us, and that excites me to play again tomorrow.”

LSU lined the sand on Saturday with a 4-0 loss despite its attempts to scrape by the Seminoles. FSU would go on to fall to Texas in the final round of competition, 0-3.

The Tigers were officially knocked off the bracket after they fell short to FSU, resulting in a semifinals loss.

Brock expressed great pride in his team regardless of the conference loss and commented on how “phenomenal” the team’s growth has been from the start of the season until now.

“Obviously, we would have preferred to finish this weekend with a win, but that didn’t happen,” Brock said. “We battled in every match and just couldn’t quite come up with the points we needed to pull off the team wins.”

However, the postseason isn’t over yet for LSU.

Ever since 2017, the Tigers have advanced to the NCAA Championship, but have yet to bring home a victory in the competition.

“Couldn’t be more thrilled with the opportunity our team has earned to compete in Gulf Shores again this year,” Brock said. “There’s a lot that has to go well through the course of a season to be in position to get there and to do it for nine years straight is just really humbling.

Set as the No. 11 seed, LSU will compete against No. 6 seed Cal Poly, in Gulf Shores, Alabama, on May 2. The last time the team took on the Cal Poly Mustangs was in 2019 at the FSU Invitational, where the Tigers came out on top, 3-2.

“Cal Poly is a great team that has had lots of really big wins this year,” Brock said. “They pose a very big challenge, but one that we are excited to prepare for and we are looking forward to the match.”