ON THE RADAR
Delaney Knudsen (Valencia, Calif.)
Delaney Knudsen placed third at the 2012 USA Volley- ball Beach High Performance Championships. At the end of 2012 she participated in the USAV Girls’ A1/A2 Youth Beach Holiday High Performance Camp. In 2013, she was named to the U.S.
team that would compete in the NORCECA Under-19 World Championship Qualifi er. She has held an AAA rating in the California Beach Volleyball Association rankings since she was 16 and she is committed to play sand volleyball at Pepperdine in the fall.
Alexa Smith
(Colorado Springs, Colo.) Alexa Smith, an outside hitter on the 2012 U.S. Girls’ Youth Na- tional Team for the USA Volleyball High Performance Champion- ships, helped Colorado Juniors 17 Jude to the gold medal of the Colorado Crossroads 17 Open Di- vision to qualify for the 2013 USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships. Colorado Juniors lost just one set during the 17 Open Division, a 27-25 setback
to open the gold-medal match against Rockwood Thunder 17 Mizuno. Smith was a fi nalist for Top Sophomore High School Player of the Year by
PrepVolleyball.com.
Kelsey Robinson (Bartlett, Ill.)
Kelsey Robinson participated in a 2012 USA Volleyball Beach High Performance Tryout and went on to train with the U.S. Beach Volleyball Under-21 National Team in Hermosa Beach, Calif. In June, she teamed with Emily Stockman to win the CBVA Women’s Open Beach Volleyball tournament championships in Santa Barbara, Calif. Robinson, the 2011 SEC Player of the Year recipient while playing indoors for University of Tennessee, has now transferred to the University of Nebraska and is playing on the Cornhuskers’ sand volleyball team.
Brendan Surane (Lockport, Ill.) Brendan Surane, an opposite who was part of the 2012 U.S. Boys’ Youth National Training Program, aided Ultimate B18 Gold to the gold medal at the Dennis La- fata Gateway Boys’ Festival in St. Louis, Mo. His team went unde- feated in nine tournament matches, dropping just two sets along the way. Earlier in the Boys’ Bid process, Ultimate B18 Gold fi nished with the bronze medal at the Boys’ Great Lakes Festival to earn a spot in the 2013 USA Volleyball Boys’ Junior National Championships.
Ben Patch (Provo, Utah)
PHOTOS: (clockwise, starting top left): Knudsen family, USAV, Surane family, USAV, USAV, University of Nebraska
Ben Patch, an opposite who led the U.S. Men’s Junior National Volleyball Team to the gold medal at the 2012 NORCECA Men’s Junior Continental Championship and named MVP of the tourna- ment, became the fi rst player to be named AVCA Division I-II National Player of the Week in consecutive weeks (Feb. 25 and March 4). The BYU freshman has helped the Cougars to hold the No. 1 spot in the AVCA Divi- sion I-II National Poll at various times in 2013. Patch recorded a MPSF-season high 35 kills in a win over then-No. 1 UC Irvine on March 1.
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Tia Scambray (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) Tia Scambray, a member of the 2012 U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team that qualifi ed for the 2013 FIVB Volleyball Girls’ Youth World Championship by winning the 2012 NORCECA Girls’ Youth Continental Championship, helped Tstreet 18-Dan to the SCVA Junior National Qualifi er 18 Open gold medal and spot into the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Champion- ships. Tstreet 18-Dan won all 10 of its matches in the tour- nament and lost just one set along the way. Scambray also was a member of the 2012 U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team on the European trip.
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