O N T H E R A D A R
A look at the rising stars in the USA Volleyball High Performance pipeline
Dane Leclair Pittsford, N.Y.
Dane Leclair, who plays for Rochester Pace Boot- legger in the Western Empire Region, was selected to the 2015 U.S. Boys’ Youth National Training Team this spring. He helped the U.S. Boys’ Youth Team to the gold medal in the 2014 NORCECA Men’s U19 Continental Championship after helping Pace Boot- legger to third place at USA Volleyball Boys’ Junior National Championships and earning a spot on the all-tournament team. In 2013, Leclair helped USA Boys’ Select A1 Red to the USAV High Performance Championships Boys’ International Division title.
Betsi Metter Flint Los Angeles, Calif.
Betsi Metter Flint teamed with Kelley Larsen to fi nish in a fi fth place tie at the 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball Women’s U23 World Champion- ship. Playing for Loyola Marymount University, she and partner Sarah Sponcil fi nished second in the 2015 AVCA Sand National Champion- ships this spring in Gulf Shores, Ala.
Last summer Metter Flint and Larsen placed ninth at the AVP Pro Beach Tour stop in Salt Lake City, followed by a 13th-place fi nish at Manhattan Beach with Jane Chafeh. She also played four seasons of indoor volleyball at LMU, earning West Coast Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2011 and 2013.
Lucas Lossone Torrance, Calif.
Gia Milana Romeo, Mich.
Gia Milana, a 6-2 outside hitter with Oakland Elite Volleyball in the Lake- shore Region, has been named to the 2015 U.S. Girls’ Youth National Training Team. She has taken part in the 2013 and 2014 High Performance Holiday Camps.
Milana was selected as a U.S. Girls’ Youth Na- tional Team Alternate/A1
Team in 2014, but did not participate due to injury. She was selected Max- Prep All-American in 2014 after leading her high school team to Michigan’s Class A state title. Milana was selected a
PrepVolleyball.com National Junior of the Year nominee in 2015.
Lucas Lossone partnered with Aidan Brown to fi nish ninth in the 2014 FIVB Beach Volley- ball U17 Boys’ World Cham- pionships. He participated in the 2014 USAV Beach High Performance
Holiday Camp. Lossone has excelled on the indoor courts in addition to the sand. As a 6-7 opposite for SCVC in the South- ern California Region, he has verballed to play for University of Southern California. In the 2014 USA Volleyball Boys’ Junior National Championships, he helped SCVC 16 Quiksilver to the silver medal.
Kyler Presho San Clemente, Calif.
Brooke Nuneviller Chandler, Ariz.
Brooke Nuneviller, who has helped Aspire Volleyball Club 15 Rox in the Arizona Region qualify for USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior Nation- al Championships through the SCVA Qualifi er, has been selected to the USA Select A1 Na- tional Training Team Program after establish- ing herself as one of the top liberos in her age group. Last year she was the USAV TrueSport Award winner competing in the USA Select A1 National Training Team program and the USA Select Holiday Camp. She was named to the USA Future Select A1 National Training Program in 2013.
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Kyler Presho, a middle blocker for San Clemente VBC in the Southern California Volleyball Association, has been selected to the 2015 USA Boys’ Select A1 National Team. He helped USA Select A1 Red to an eighth place fi nish in the Boys’ International Youth Division of the 2014 USA Volleyball High Performance Championships. Presho later participated in the USAV HP Holiday Camp. Presho, playing for San Clemente, earned silver at the 2015 USA Volleyball Boys’ Junior Nationals in the 15 Open Division and was selected to the all-tourna- ment team.
PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT: LECLAIR FAMILY, BETSI METTER FLINT, LUCAS LOSSONE, PRESHO FAMILY, USAV, USA
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