The team trains in California, and plays its numerous tournaments each summer in such faraway places as Nanjing, China, and Okayama, Japan.
On Tuesday the United States beat Poland in four sets -- 28-26, 25-22, 22-25, 25-15 -- in the Americans’ first match in the new FIVB Volleyball Nations League. The announced attendance at the Devaney Sports Center was 5,000.
Last year was the first year of the cycle. In 2017 many of the returning Olympians played a limited schedule, or not at all, to get some rest after the Olympics and their professional seasons. That also gives the next group of Olympic hopefuls – players like former Nebraska libero Justine Wong-Orantes – their first chance to play a lot.