ON THE RADAR
Skylar Caputo Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Skylar Caputo placed ninth at the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball Youth World Championships with partner Delaney Knudsen. The tandem also earned the silver medal at the 2013 USAV Beach High Perfor- mance Championships. Caputo was invited to the USAV Beach Girls’ High Performance National Camp for U-19 age division this winter. Caputo has committed to play sand volleyball at Pep- perdine University. She also plays indoor for Sunshine VBC 18 Hurley in the Southern California Volleyball Association.
Audriana Fitzmorris Overland Park, Kan.
Audriana Fitzmorris played a large role last summer as the youngest member on the U.S. Girls’ Youth Na- tional Team that captured the silver medal at the FIVB Volleyball Girls’ U18 World Champion- ship. She fi nished sec- ond at Worlds in blocking with a 0.93 set average in being named Best Middle Blocker. Fitzmorris was named to the inaugu- ral American
Family Insurance All-USA High School Volleyball Second Team by USA Today last fall following her sophomore year at St. James High School in Lenexa, Kan. She is cur- rently playing for Invasion Volleyball Club 16s in the Heart of America Region.
Hailey Harward Phoenix, Ariz.
Hailey Harward, a libero for Aspire Volleyball Club 16 Rox in the Arizona Region, was selected to attend the USA Volleyball High Performance Holi- day Camp last December on the heels of a suc- cessful 2013 season. She helped lead the USA Select A1 Red to the 2013 USAV HP Champion- ship silver medal in the Women’s International Junior Division. Harward aided Aspire 15 Black to a 10th-place fi nish in the National Division of USAV Girls’ Junior Nationals in 2013. Harward paced Aspire 14N Black to the 2012 GJNC 14 American Division title and later won the HP Championships bronze medal in the Girls’ International Division playing outside hitter for USA Select A1 Red.
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Earl Schultz Chicago, Ill.
Earl Schultz, an outside hitter for Powerhouse Volleyball Club in the Great Lakes Region, has been a part of the USA Volleyball pipeline for the past two summers. He was on the rosters for the 2012 Boys’ Youth National Team and the 2013 Boys’ Youth National Train- ing Team while competing in the USAV High Performance Cham- pionships both years. He helped the Boys’ Youth National Team earn the bronze medal at the 2012 NORCECA Championship with a team-leading 16 points in the bronze match. Schultz plays volleyball at Walter Payton College Prep in Chicago where he made all- area as a junior. The team has advanced to state and won city championships twice.
David Siebum St. Louis, Mo.
David Siebum took part in the 2013 USA Volleyball High Performance Boys’ Youth Holiday Camp. He played on the USA Select A1 Blue Team in the Boys’ International Youth Division of the 2013 USAV High Performance Championships. Siebum, an out- side/opposite hitter, helped STL High Performance of Gateway Region earn a berth into the 2014 USAV Boys’ Junior Nationals with a bronze fi nish at the Dennis Lafata Gateway Boys’ Festival. Last spring Siebum led St. John Vianney
High School to the Missouri State Class 3A boys’ title as a sophomore and has a goal to repeat the feat in 2014.
Lucas Yoder San Clemente, Calif.
Lucas Yoder looks to build on a successful 2013 season. He fi n- ished third at the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball Youth World Champion- ships with partner Torey DeFalco. The pair also won the gold medal at the 2013 USAV Beach High Performance Championships. Yoder
also is playing indoor volleyball at University of Southern California where he started off his freshman season with a bang. He was named AVCA Division I-II National Player of the Week on Jan. 7, 2014, following his 16 kills and .609 hitting effi ciency in his fi rst collegiate match in helping the Trojans give Loyola-Chicago its only loss of the season to date (March 12).
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