Pro Women
December 8, 2023
A bevy of news items from the upstart domestic League One Volleyball and Pro Volleyball Federation groups crossed my desk over the last few days. The most significant ones came from LOVB, which is scheduled to begin its season in November of 2024. The PVF revealed an Indianapolis team would come aboard in 2025.
Barbolini, Miyashiro join LOVB
League One Volleyball disclosed on Thursday that Massimo Barbolini and Tama Miyashiro will coach.
Barbolini, 59, is an international coaching legend, sporting a vast resume with the Turkish and Italian women’s national teams.
Under his guidance, those squads have earned more than 30 medals in international competitions. Barbolini coached the Italian team to a fifth-place finish in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a sixth-place finish in the 2012 London Games. He will be an assistant coach for the Italian women’s squad in the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Barbolini coached for the Turkish women from 2013-2015. Overall, his trophy case numbers two World Cups, two European Championships, one Grand Champions Cup and, in 2023, the CEV Cup Championship. He also has extensive coaching experience in European pro leagues.
Miyashiro, 36, moved into an assistant-coaching role with the USA women’s national team under Karch Kiraly in the spring of 2017 after a playing career that included earning an Olympic silver medal with our squad in 2012.
The league did not announce which teams Barbolini and Miyashiro would coach.
“This opportunity truly is an honor and I am excited to coach in the inaugural season of LOVB,” Miyashiro said. “One of the things I am most excited about is continuing to push our sport forward at a pro and club level in the U.S. I look forward to working with elite athletes and the youth community, and most of all just seeing how far we can go.”
During her coaching tenure with Team USA, it has won the gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, taken FIVB Volleyball Nations League titles in 2018 and ‘19 and picked up a bronze medal at the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup. Miyashiro has…
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