Each week during the club season, VolleyballMag.com recognizes a Dream Team of eight girls volleyball players (15s to 18s age groups) who were standouts the weekend before.
The team, most weeks, will consist of the following:
Setter or S/RS
Setter, S/RS or RS
OH
OH
MB
MB
Libero
DS
We include our eight-player Dream Team below, as well as others we considered, based exclusively upon nominations received. This week’s Dream Team includes three outsides and three middles, since we received no right side or DS nominees.
Note to coaches and directors: while there is no science to how we choose members of our Dream Team, performing on bigger stages will give players an edge, as will nomination forms that describe with specificity how well a player performed the previous weekend.
VolleyballMag.com DREAM TEAM for April 19
S: Mollie VanDeusen, 6-0 eighth grader, JJVA 15 Teal (FL) — VanDeusen amassed 240 assists (10.9 assists per set), 10 blocks and 14 aces for 15 Teal, which went 9-1 in 15 USA to earn a bid at Lone Star in Dallas.
She played with grit and was instrumental to JJVA’s victories over three previously-qualified teams in the Florida team’s first USA competition this season.
OH: Jessica Smallwood, 6-5 freshman, EVA 15 Blue (KY) – One of the best “unknown” players in the freshman class, Smallwood amassed 96 kills and 27 blocks to help Elizabethtown Volleyball Academy to a third place finish in 15 Premier at the JVA World Challenge. The six-rotation standout is a great leader and better teammate who can hit and block from all positions along the net and is consistent in serve receive. Coach Bart Catlett asserted that Smallwood was arguably the most dominant all-around player in 15 Premier this past weekend.
OH: Bella Bullington, 6-3 sophomore, SPVB 16 Elite (IL) – Bullington was the hammer Sports Performance needed to capture the 16 Open division at the JVA World Challenge this past weekend. She led her team with 70 kills while hitting .372 from the left side, and also topped the squad with 14 aces.
OH: Natalie Knigga, 5-8 sophomore, NKYVC 16 Tide (KY) – A six-rotation outside, Knigga led her team to a ninth-place finish in 16 USA at the Northeast Qualifier on Sunday. She was the team kill leader in all seven matches, six of which 16 Tide won. “Natalie is one of the most athletic and versatile outsides in the gym,” noted coach Alexis Mitchell, “and is always…
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