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Post by burbank55 on Aug 2, 2019 10:58:58 GMT -5
Just wanted to copy this over from the 2019 USC Beach thread... USC Beach Recruiting List: 2019 Audrey Nourse - 2018 Team USA A1 U19, 2018 USAV U19 Champions, 2017 BVCA 16U Champs Nicole Nourse - 2018 Team USA A1 U19, 2018 USAV U19 Champions, 2017 BVCA 16U Champs Kyla Doig - 2018 Team USA A1 U19, 2018 USAV U19 5th place Harper Hallgren - 2018 Team USA A1 U19, 2018 USAV U19 4th place Presley Simo Anastasia Lima - 2018 USAV U19 10th place Molly Davis Anaree Smith Ariyana Kim 2020 Delaynie Maple - 2019 USAV U18 Champions, 2018 Team USA U17, 2018 USAV U17 Champions Olivia Bakos - 2018 Team USA U17, 2018 USAV U17 2nd place, 2019 USAV U18 5th place Meg Kraft - 2019 USAV U18 Champions, 2018 Team USA U17, 2018 USAV U17 Champions Hallie Carballo Ivana Rusich Caitlin Cummings - 2018 USAV U19 7th place Lauren Harrison 2021 Tatiana Rusich Ava Gallien - 2018 Team USA U17, 2018 USAV U17 7th place Eden McCoy - 2017 BVCA 14U Gold 2nd place, soap opera ⭐️ Ava Kirunchyk - 2017 BVCA 14U Gold 5th place Colby Bennett - 2017 BVCA 14U Gold 2nd place Read more: volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/77020/usc-beach-2019?page=1#ixzz5vSZcSRXP |
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Post by sunger4222 on Aug 2, 2019 11:54:55 GMT -5
Curious about Tatiana and Colby. One is listed as 2021, and the other as 2022. These girls were students in my 5th grade class, so why are the years different.
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Post by burbank55 on Aug 8, 2019 23:58:46 GMT -5
Yeah, you’re right. One of the recruiting websites had Colby Bennett as class of 2022, but her own instagram says USC Class of 2025 so 2021 is correct.
Also, Tina Graudina’s YouTube video reaction to Dain Blanton’s hire kinda made me hopeful that Tina will be back at least after Tokyo and maybe this coming season since they shouldn’t have difficulty qualifying for the Olympics.
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Post by sunger4222 on Aug 9, 2019 9:08:06 GMT -5
Both girls are top players and wonderful kids. I'm looking forward to watching them play.
Glad that Tina's return seems very strong, but I wonder who a potential partner will be. Abril was special, and I'm not sure who has the quickness and ability to take her place. Guess we'll find out.
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Post by dunninla3 on Aug 9, 2019 10:23:31 GMT -5
Tina will be back at least after Tokyo and maybe this coming season since they shouldn’t have difficulty qualifying for the Olympics. not sure she will qualify for the Olympics. She has three avenues:
- Top 15 via FIVB Olympic Qualifying ranking points - FIVB Olympic Qualifying Tournament at end of Sept. - FIVB Continental Cup (Europe region)
She and her partner are just outside the Top 15, so it's not a sure thing. They are at #16 when you take out USA 3, USA 4 and USA 5, and Brazil 3 and Brazil 4. They would have to pass one of the other teams ahead of them... both Dutch teams, the Germans, Spain, and China to be in the top 15. Plus the Swiss, Chechs and China2 are just barely behind them. Odds are 50/50 Latvia does not qualify via points.
Has the NCAA changed the rule from back in 2016... do they now allow college players to participate in AVP and FIVB, and try to qualify for the Olympics, during the collegiate season? \
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Post by houdini on Aug 9, 2019 16:13:02 GMT -5
Tina will be back at least after Tokyo and maybe this coming season since they shouldn’t have difficulty qualifying for the Olympics. not sure she will qualify for the Olympics. She has three avenues:
- Top 15 via FIVB Olympic Qualifying ranking points - FIVB Olympic Qualifying Tournament at end of Sept. - FIVB Continental Cup (Europe region)
She and her partner are just outside the Top 15, so it's not a sure thing. They are at #16 when you take out USA 3, USA 4 and USA 5, and Brazil 3 and Brazil 4. They would have to pass one of the other teams ahead of them... both Dutch teams, the Germans, Spain, and China to be in the top 15. Plus the Swiss, Chechs and China2 are just barely behind them. Odds are 50/50 Latvia does not qualify via points.
Has the NCAA changed the rule from back in 2016... do they now allow college players to participate in AVP and FIVB, and try to qualify for the Olympics, during the collegiate season? \
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Post by houdini on Aug 9, 2019 16:28:47 GMT -5
Most likely TWO top 15 teams will qualify at the September China Olympic qualification competition. That will move everyone else up two spots. Plus a top 4 finish at the CEV European championships will help Tina Graudina's team qualify. Semis vs Spain & finals coming up Saturday.
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Post by houdini on Aug 9, 2019 16:33:29 GMT -5
I heard her from a trusted source that Plummer is playing for her grad at usc but unsure if it for 2020 season or 2021 or both. Rotating Tina and Kathryn at block would be a top FIVB combo as well. Both girls are dominant at net but quick on defense too. |
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Post by dunninla3 on Aug 9, 2019 21:33:35 GMT -5
I heard her from a trusted source that Plummer is playing for her grad at usc but unsure if it for 2020 season or 2021 or both. Rotating Tina and Kathryn at block would be a top FIVB combo as well. Both girls are dominant at net but quick on defense too. I suppose for the last year i have been in the minority in thinking Plummer isn't guaranteed to be effective in FIVB Beach. Too many times she was in the shank tank in Stanford Indoor matches. It was baffling, and cringeworthy. And that's indoors with no good side/bad side. I think that's why people really want to see her as Opposite in Pro Indoor where her serve-receive difficulties can be hidden. Add to that the difficult to explain up and down results when playing Beach at Stanford. I am aware that so many are high on her, I just haven't seen it in actual play the last two years. |
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Post by Fight On! on Aug 10, 2019 13:13:56 GMT -5
Tina G. won Gold at CEV Championships.
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Post by guest2 on Aug 10, 2019 14:05:59 GMT -5
Rotating Tina and Kathryn at block would be a top FIVB combo as well. Both girls are dominant at net but quick on defense too. I suppose for the last year i have been in the minority in thinking Plummer isn't guaranteed to be effective in FIVB Beach. Too many times she was in the shank tank in Stanford Indoor matches. It was baffling, and cringeworthy. And that's indoors with no good side/bad side. I think that's why people really want to see her as Opposite in Pro Indoor where her serve-receive difficulties can be hidden. Add to that the difficult to explain up and down results when playing Beach at Stanford. I am aware that so many are high on her, I just haven't seen it in actual play the last two years. Has anyone that big and mobile failed in the modern game? Pavan has passing issues and Klineman made a ton of errors in the wind when she initially hit the big stage, but both are top 10 or close players now. Not sure she will rival those two but if I were a defender and had to choose between playing with Emily Day or Plummer in 2020, Id take Plummer and for 2021 Id probably take her over Claes or Larsen too. |
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Post by downtheline on Aug 10, 2019 14:21:12 GMT -5
KP indoors is a fantastic player . That game will shorten her athletic career.
KP on the beach working herself into beach shape could prove to be a great partner. She started training on the beach in Huntington at the Lovelace clinics.
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Post by dunninla3 on Aug 10, 2019 15:44:45 GMT -5
I agree Plummer would do well to consider a not that long indoor career. Reid is long and thin and it still tore up his joints. KP is more of an Alison or Ana Patricia or Kolinske body type in terms of muscle mass to height ration... that is, normal rather than stretched out.
It's kind of funny, but I remember reading as a kid the Martian Chronicles, or something similar where it was explained that body mass to height ratio is a response to gravity. Some players like Pavan, Klineman, Manute Bol in basketball, seem to have bodies constructed for low gravity worlds... like Mars.
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Post by dunninla3 on Aug 10, 2019 15:59:38 GMT -5
Tina G. won Gold at CEV Championships. I'm going to assume that, given she has qualified for Tokyo, her Federation will want her playing FIVB leading up to Tokyo, and not college beach. Who would have thought that Tina would qualify for Tokyo before Claes or Hughes? |
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Post by burbank55 on Aug 10, 2019 16:00:14 GMT -5
Tina G. won Gold at CEV Championships. Nice 2-0 victory. European Champions! www.cev.eu/News.aspx?NewsID=29550&ID=7An amazing awarding ceremony marked the end of the Women’s tournament of CEV EuroBeachVolley 2019 that was held from 5 to 10 August in Moscow. Fans came to see the brightest stars of the Women's European Beach Volleyball and were more than pleased to watch the final match that was full of interesting moments. Graudina/Kravcenoka and Wojtasik/Kociolek actually met earlier in the tournament in the group stage, where in Pool D the Latvians seized a 2-0 win (24-22, 21-18). On Saturday, in the most important match, the Latvian ladies started worse than their opponents – being nervous, they couldn’t show their best on the court in the first minutes of the matchup, letting also small details interact with their performance. On the other hand, Poland were comfortably leading, seeming that they were in control of the way how the set was unfolding. However, Graudina and Kravcenoka were able to ‘gather’ themselves and put pressure on their opponents, breathing down their necks and being down with only one point in the score. Inspired by their comeback, the Latvians started to believe in their chances and actually equalised. The Polish ladies had the chance to take this set, but the Latvians cancelled it. That’s when Graudina showed great mental strength and with the result being 20-20, scored two aces in a row to open the match in Latvia’s favour. It was a close call in the beginning of the second set as the play was going point for point. Graudina and Kravcenoka were leading most of the time with one point only, while their Polish opponents were trying to score a break point, keeping alive the intrigue in the match. Again in the decisive last minutes of the set, the Latvians were more stable and closed the set and the match, writing a new page in the Latvian Beach Volleyball history, going home with the trophy. This gold medal comes exactly ten years after Latvia’s first and only gold medal in Women’s Beach Volleyball, won by Inese Jursone/Inguna Minusa in Sochi, Russia. Both the new European champions - Anastasija Kravcenoka and Tina Graudina were pleased with the victory, realizing it has been a hard job to get to the highest peak in European Beach Volleyball: “Before coming to Moscow, I told my family our goal is to play in the final. They laughed a bit, but obviously said that they support us and believe in us. Match after match we won and we started to believe ourselves even more,” Anastastija Kravcenoka told media after the awarding ceremony. “It feels like we accomplished a hard job. At this moment we are still tired, but tomorrow or next week it will really hit us - we are European Champions,” Tina Graudina added. |
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