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ON THE RADAR


Kade Bontrager Plano, Texas


Kade Bontrager was one of six athletes selected for the 2013 USA Boys’ Future Select National Training Program, the youngest group of kids to ever compete in the USA Volleyball High Performance Championships (HPC). His performance at the HPC earned him an invite to the 2013 USA Volleyball Boys’ Holiday Camp where he was on the top select team scrim- maging against the youth age group. Bontrager sparked Tejas Volleyball Club to a sixth-place fi nish in the 2013 USA Vol- leyball Boys’ Junior National Championships 14 Open Division. Despite standing 5-9, Bontrager touches 10-4 as a high-fl ying outside hitter.


Hayley Hodson Newport Beach, Calif.


Hayley Hodson helped the U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team capture the silver medal at the FIVB Volleyball Girls’ U-18 World Championship, then nearly duplicated the feat as one of the young- est members competing in the FIVB Volleyball Women’s U-23


World Championship in September. Hodson started the fi nal four matches of the U23 World Championship, posting a total of 53 points for the tournament and 12 aces – which tied for fourth best – as the U.S. fi nished fourth. She also paced TStreet 18- Dan to a bronze fi nish in the 2013 USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships 18 Open Division.


Soren Dion-Kindem Agoura Hills, Calif.


Soren Dion-Kindem was the starting setter for the U.S. Boys’ Youth National Volleyball Team at the 2013 FIVB Boys’ U19 World Champion- ship. He ended the tournament as the second- ranked setter with a 5.03 running set average. Dion-Kindem played for Santa Monica Beach Club since age 14, capped with an 11th-place fi nish for SMBC 18 Black at the USAV Boys’ Junior National Championships in the 18 Open Division. He earned all-tournament honors twice at BJNCs. Dion-Kindem, who was All- Marmonte League First-Team as a senior at Agoura High School, is in his freshman season at Pepperdine University.


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Zana Muno Sherman Oaks, Calif.


Zana Muno, along with her beach volleyball partner Sarah Sponcil, captured the NORCECA Central Zone Girls’ Qualifi cation Tournament to earn the United States a spot into the 2014 Youth Olympic Games at Nanjing, China. The tandem fi nished 6-0 in the tour- nament, capped by a 21-19, 19-21, 16-14 victory over a pair from Canada in the title match. Muno, who was playing in her fi rst international competi- tion, has verbally committed to play both indoor and sand volleyball at UCLA.


Louis Richard Los Angeles, Calif.


Louis Richard has been part of the USA Volleyball Beach High Performance pipeline for the last three years and competed in the NORCECA Central Zone Boys’ Youth


Olympic Games Qualifi cation Tourna- ment in December. He and his part- ner T.J. DeFalco fi nished the event with the silver medal after a lengthy 17-21, 26-24, 15-12 loss to Canada in the fi nals. He was part of USA’s Under 19 Beach National Team Elite Eight in 2013. Richard, who helped MB Surf Nike 17s to a fi fth-place fi nish at the 2013 USAV Boys’ Junior National Championships in the 17 Open Division, is committed to play indoor volleyball at Long Beach State University.


Morgan Hentz Lakeside Park, Ky.


Morgan Hentz, a libero for NKYVC in the Pioneer Re- gion, turned in a stellar season in the High Performance pipeline. As a member of the USA Select A1 Red Team for the second consecutive season, she helped her team fi nish with the silver medal at the 2013 USAV HP Champion- ships playing up two divisions in the Women’s Junior. She aided NKYVC to a seventh-place fi nish in the 2013 USAV Girls’ Junior National Champi- onships 16 Opens. Hentz was invited to her third consecutive USAV HP Holiday Camp in December 2013. She helped Notre Dame High School (Ky.) to a Kentucky State Volleyball Championships second-place fi nish in 2013.


Photos: (Clockwise starting top left): Bontrager Family, NORCECA, NORCECA, USAV, USAV, USAV


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