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A quick look at the rising stars in the USA Volleyball High Performance pipeline
Aaron Plaisted | Wauwatosa, Wis.
Aaron Plaisted, a 6-3 opposite who plays for Milwaukee Volleyball Club 17 Jake, has been selected to the USA Volleyball Select A1 Camp and High Performance Championships each of the last two years. His USA Select A1 Stripes team placed eighth in the 2015 HP Championships Boys’ National Youth Division. Plaisted, a junior at Wauwatosa East High
School (Wis.) playing his sixth year of club volleyball, was named to the 2014 USAV Boys’ Junior National Champi- onships All-Tournament Team as his team finished fifth in the 15 Club Division. This year marked his second USAV Boys’ Holiday Camp selection.
Aidan Grosz | Long Beach, Calif.
Aidan Grosz, a middle blocker with Long Beach Volleyball Club, was part of USA Volleyball’s Boys’ Future Select A1 team last summer that finished sixth in USAV’s High Performance
Championships Boys’ Regional Youth Division. He participated in the USA Volleyball Boys’ Select Holiday National Training Program this past December. Grosz was a member of the HLVBC 14 UA squad that finished 14th at the 2015 USA Volleyball Boys’ Junior National Championships in the 14 Open Division.
Adora Anae | Laie, Hawaii
Outside hitter Adora Anae scored a team-best 18 points for the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team in its five-set championship match win in the 2015 European Global Challenge in Croatia last July. After becoming the University of Utah’s first Pac-12 All-Fresh- man First-Team selection in 2014, she was selected to the
2015 All-Pac-12 First Team as a sophomore this fall. Anae collected a school-record 28 kills in a single match and produced 20 or more kills in 12 matches in 2015. She led the Utes in kills per set (4.25), digs per set (3.29) and receptions (1,022).
PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT: PLAISTED FAMILY, STONE FAMILY; SLATER FAMILY; SCHWENGEL FAMILY; WARNER FAMILY; UNIVERSITY OF UTAH.
Ronika Stone | San Jose, Calif.
Ronika Stone was a standout during the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Girls’ U18 World Championship as the U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team captured the silver medal. She scored 79 points on 58 kills, 17 blocks and four aces. She was named all-tour- nament at the 2014 USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships playing for Vision in the 18 Open Division. Stone was named to the 2015 All-USA Today All-American Team this fall. The University of Oregon commit was selected as the West Catholic Athletic League Player of the Year while playing for Valley Christian High School.
Sammy Slater | Ventura, Calif.
Sammy Slater captured the 2015 USA Volleyball Beach High Performance Championships 17-and-Under Division while competing with
partner Haley Hallgren. She holds an AAA rating by the California Beach Volleyball Association (CBVA). In 2014, Slater, a member of USA’s Select Beach National Team, placed second at the USAV Beach High Performance Championships in the U17 Division. She has verbally com- mitted to play volleyball at University of Southern California.
John Schwengel | Santa Monica, Calif.
John Schwengel won the 2015 USA Volleyball Beach High Performance Champion- ships 17-and-Under Division with partner Marcus Partain. He is currently ranked fourth in the 18-and-Under Boys’ category in USA Volleyball’s beach ranking. This past sum- mer Schwengel also claimed
AAU National Beach titles in the Boys’ U16/U15 and U18/U17 divisions. John, currently a member of USA’s Select Beach National Team, won the inaugural pairs championship for the boys’ Inter- scholastic Beach Volleyball League.
Haley Warner | Fayetteville, Ark.
Haley Warner, an opposite who plays for Ozark Juniors, has been part of the USA Select A1 National Training Team Program in 2014 and 2015. She paced Ozark Juniors 151 to the 2015 USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championship National Division title. Warner participated in this winter’s USA Volleyball National Team Prospect Training Block in the Girls’ Youth Division. As a freshman, she was named the 2014-15 Gatorade State Player of the Year in Arkan- sas while competing for Fayetteville High School.
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