Who are the remaining 12?

[simvb07]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 16, 2007) – USA Volleyball has announced the 24-player roster for the 2007 U.S. Women’s Junior National Training Team, which will train May 18-20 in Austin, Texas. Within a week after the training session, the roster will be cut in half to 12 players who will represent the U.S. at the FIVB U-20 World Championships held July 19-27 in Suphanburi, Thailand.

The 12-player U.S. Women’s Junior National Team will train in Colorado Springs at the U.S. Olympic Training Center approximately July 5-16 in preparation for the World Championships. Team USA qualified for the event by winning the 2006 NORCECA Continental Women’s Junior Championship in Monterey, Mexico. Prior to leaving for Thailand, the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team will train alongside and scrimmage members of the U.S. Women’s National Team who will not compete in the Pan American Games held July 14-19 in Brazil.

The 2007 U.S. Women’s Junior National Training Team roster has eight carryovers from the 2006 NORCECA gold-medal winning team. Jennifer Doris (Houston), Whitney Dosty (Tucson, Ariz.), Julianne Faucette (San Diego, Calif.) Zoe Garrett (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.), Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Stevi Robinson (Bakersfield, Calif.) and Colleen Ward (Naperville, Ill.) all represented Team USA on last year’s U.S. Women’s Junior National Team and are vying for a spot on this year’s squad.

Andy Banachowski serves as the head coach of the 2007 U.S. Women’s Junior National Team, and he will be assisted by Karrie Larsen and Ted Wade.

2007 U.S. Women’s Junior National Training Team Roster
Name (Position, Height, Hometown, HS Grad Year, Club/School)
Briana Barry (MB, 6-4, Tallahassee, Fla., 2006, Florida State University)
Taylor Carico (S, 5-11, Manhattan Beach, Calif., 2006, University of Southern California)
Brook Dieter (OH, 6-1, Bloomington, Minn., 2007, Northern Lights)
Jennifer Doris (MB, 6-5, Houston, Texas, 6-5, Willowbrook)
Whitney Dosty (OH, 6-3, Tucson, Ariz., 2007, University of Arizona)
Katie Dull (OH, 6-0, Solon, Ohio, 2007, Akron Canton Elite)
Ashley Engle (S, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., 2006, University of Texas)
Julianne Faucette (OH, 6-2, San Diego, Calif., 2007, Epic)
Zoe Garrett (MB, 6-3, Laguna Beach, Calif., 2007, Mizuno Long Beach)
Lauren Gibbemeyer (MB, 6-2, St. Paul, Minn., 2007, Northern Lights)
Carrie Gurnell (MB, 6-1, Katy, Texas, 2006, Purdue University)
Alix Klineman (OH, 6-5, Manhattan Beach, Calif., 2007, Mizuno Long Beach)
Cassidy Lichtman (L, 6-1, Poway, Calif., 2007, San Diego VBC)
Kaylee Manns (S, 5-10, Topeka, Kan., 2006, Iowa State University)
Tara Mueller (OH, 6-0, Scottsdale, Ariz., 2007, Club Red)
Kelly Murphy (S, 6-3, Wilmington, Ill., 2008, Sports Performance)
Juliane Piggott (OH, 6-2, Newport Beach, Calif., 2007, TCA)
Stevi Robinson (L, 5-7, Bakersfield, Calif., 2008, TCA)
Kimberlee Roleder (OH, 6-1, Pasadena, Calif., 2007, Point West)
Sarah Rumely (S, 5-11, New Palestine, Ind., 2006, University of Kentucky)
Betsy Smith (MB, 6-3, Atlanta, Ga., 2008, A5)
Colleen Ward (OH, 6-2, Naperville, Ill., 2008, Sports Performance)
Lauren Williams (MB, 6-5, Houston, Texas, 2007, Texas Tornados)
Lexi Zimmerman (S, 5-10, Barrington, Ill., 2007, Sky High)

Head Coach: Andy Banachowski (Culver City, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Karrie Larsen (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Assistant Coach: Ted Wade (Austin, Texas)

[Go Iowa]

Congrats to Kelly Murphy... just love that girl. So they took her as a setter... interesting considering she's not even setting this year. Not that she needs to. She's better than almost anyone in any position.

[Tex_VB_Fan]

My take on the remaining 12.....

Briana Barry (MB, 6-4, Tallahassee, Fla., 2006, Florida State University)
Taylor Carico (S, 5-11, Manhattan Beach, Calif., 2006, University of Southern California)
Jennifer Doris (MB, 6-5, Houston, Texas, 6-5, Willowbrook)
Whitney Dosty (OH, 6-3, Tucson, Ariz., 2006, University of Arizona)
Ashley Engle (S, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., 2006, University of Texas)
Julianne Faucette (OH, 6-2, San Diego, Calif., 2007, Epic)
Zoe Garrett (MB, 6-3, Laguna Beach, Calif., 2007, Mizuno Long Beach)
Lauren Gibbemeyer (MB, 6-2, St. Paul, Minn., 2007, Northern Lights)
Alix Klineman (OH, 6-5, Manhattan Beach, Calif., 2007, Mizuno Long Beach)
Cassidy Lichtman (L, 6-1, Poway, Calif., 2007, San Diego VBC)
Tara Mueller (OH, 6-0, Scottsdale, Ariz., 2007, Club Red)
Kelly Murphy (S, 6-3, Wilmington, Ill., 2008, Sports Performance)

[dothaevolution]

little off topic but how often has Andy been head coach of a jnt?

[BeiBei]

If Andy is spiteful he will cut

Carico, Williams, Roleder and Garrett since they are Trojans ;D

He will also cut Engle because UCLA was her second choice ;D ;D

[Deleted]

Isn't the JO Open at the same time as the July practice?

There's going to be some mighty tired athletes by the time college practice starts in August.

[3talltrees]

From Tex_VB_Fan's list, not sure about Barry, Mueller, & Lichtman. The rest look good to go.

Training & competition will take up three weeks of July. I would be surprised if ten days of r&r afterwards isn't sufficient time before heading off to college. Thought I read that the JNT would be scrimmaging the women's team while in Colorado.

[Deleted]

It's a long JO season. Then throw the intensity of USAV at them and a trip to Thailand? Makes me tired just to think about it.

[BoilerUp!]

Taylor Carico (S, 5-11, Manhattan Beach, Calif., 2006, University of Southern California)
Ashley Engle (S, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., 2006, University of Texas)
Cassidy Lichtman (L, 6-1, Poway, Calif., 2007, San Diego VBC)
Kaylee Manns (S, 5-10, Topeka, Kan., 2006, Iowa State University)
Kelly Murphy (S, 6-3, Wilmington, Ill., 2008, Sports Performance)
Stevi Robinson (L, 5-7, Bakersfield, Calif., 2008, TCA)
Sarah Rumely (S, 5-11, New Palestine, Ind., 2006, University of Kentucky)
Lexi Zimmerman (S, 5-10, Barrington, Ill., 2007, Sky High)

6 Setters?!

And only 2 Liberos ? I would think both would have to make the cut.
Looks like hitters are going to have to be good players all around.

And my mind is boggled at the thought of a 6'1" Libero...
So much for creating a position so short kids could play, too.

[baywatcher]

Lichtman is the Stanford recruit characterized as an all around player, except MB, and certainly has not specialized as a Libero during high school and club, so only one real libero type on list.

[OverAndUnder]

I'd love to see video of a Murphy/Engle 6-2 system with Doris, Dosty, Klineman, and Faucette playing against some ball-control brazilian shorties.

[farmwatcher]

There are three liberos going to Austin: Mueller, Lichtman, and Robinson. Lichtman has not played libero in the past while the other two have. All three are good players, and one would imagine that Andy will take two so he has a DS to use. I have to believe he takes Carrico as the primary setter, Engle as a backup/RS, or maybe to play some 6-2, as well as Murphy. One of those is going to have to set the B team in practice at Colorado Springs. I think the other setters, though talented, are going to be out of luck.

[VolleyTX]

A question about Taylor Carico.... Do the folks on this board really think she is really all that good?

I saw 3 USC matches last season. While I love to watch her hit on the second ball, I thought her set tempo and location were horrible. Is this just a by-product of her switching to the big slow girl volleyball that Haley likes to run?.... or did I just happen to see her in 3 bad matches?... or is it something else entirely?

I'm sure there are people on this board that have seen her play a lot more than I have. What are your thoughts?

[farmwatcher]

I saw a fair bit of Carico last year, and it was not spectacular. Part of the time you could lay it at the feet of the passers; they had a few pretty rough matches when the passing was terrible. But I think most Pac-10 oberservers would have ranked her no better than 4th in the conference as a setter, at best. But that 2006 class was just not loaded with great setters, and with Holloway not coming back to the JN team, I think it is Carico's job to lose. She is steady, just not spectacular. I have not seen Murphy set, so maybe she will be the one who gives the older girls a good run. The idea of an Engle/Murphy 6-2 is cool.

[roofed!]

volleytx said:

A question about Taylor Carico.... Do the folks on this board really think she is really all that good?

I saw 3 USC matches last season. While I love to watch her hit on the second ball, I thought her set tempo and location were horrible. Is this just a by-product of her switching to the big slow girl volleyball that Haley likes to run?.... or did I just happen to see her in 3 bad matches?... or is it something else entirely?

I'm sure there are people on this board that have seen her play a lot more than I have. What are your thoughts?

USC did run a slow set tempo last season which I think was probably due to many new starters on the court (Carico, Gysin, Kaczor and Johansen) and the short off-season training together. With the hitting starters returning this season, I expect Haley to run a faster offensive tempo and a more diverse offensive system. For the last 2 seasons, with new setters at the helm (Siljegovic in 2005 and Carico in 2006), the offense had been very predictable -- 1s and slides to MB, and high balls to the outsides. I want to see them running the offense similar to 2002-2003 teams with variations of x-plays, OHs hitting inside behind the MBs, variations of double quicks, 3s for the MBs etc.

Maybe someone who had watched the team at the Texas spring tournament can comment on whether the team was running the simple, slow offense or doing more combos.