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Pro Volleyball Federation signs execs; Orlando adds 10 players; Fury news

Pro Volleyball Federation signs execs; Orlando adds 10 players; Fury news

While Athletes Unlimited Volleyball heads into its upcoming season, and League One will announce its sixth and final club for next year, Pro Volleyball Federation that continued to make news these past few weeks.

PVF announced Devonie McLarty as director of officials. Other than being the target of fans’ misplaced anger, she will serve as a liaison between league teams, coaches, and officials. It will be her responsibility to establish an effective system of observing the performance of officials, line judges, and scorers as well as training and grading them. 

McLarty’s longtime officiating experience includes working in the NCAA, NJCAA, and NAIA and FIVB, and she is a member of the Professional Association of Volleyball Officials board of directors.

“We are thrilled to have attracted someone the caliber of Devonie to be our director of officials,” said Dr. Cecile Reynaud, Pro Volleyball Federation’s vice president of volleyball operations. “Devonie’s background and experience speaks for itself, and she has so much enthusiasm and excitement about joining Pro Volleyball Federation, and about officiating overall.”

PVF has brought on former Stanford and USA great Logan Tom as its director of international development and player strategy. Tom, who played in 12 countries and has been coaching Israel, will, according to the PVF, cultivate relationships with other volleyball agencies and federations both domestic and foreign, and act as a liaison between those organizations and PVF players with a focus on player safety and wellness. 

Tom, a International Volleyball Hall of Famer who, at 19, became the youngest woman ever to be selected to the USA Olympic team, made her Olympic debut at the 2000 Sydney Games. Tom played in four Olympics and was on the USA teams that won silver medals in 2008 and 2012.

At the team level, at the end-of-business on Tuesday, August 29, (Volleyball Day in Nebraska Eve) the PVF’s Omaha Supernovas announced they had sold over 2,750 season tickets on their first official day of sale. You know, just in case anyone doubted Nebraskans likes their volleyball.

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The Orlando Valkyries have been busy. They announced Gordon Mayforth as an assistant. Mayforth has 21 years of coaching experience with stops in Greece, Japan, Puerto Rico, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Cyprus.

Orlando also has signed players as it comes close to filling out a roster…

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