The Windy City Girls' 18s National Qualifier returns to the Schaumburg Convention Center this weekend as 124 teams vie for berths in the Open, USA, American and Liberty divisions at the 2025 USAV Girls' 18s Junior National Championship on April 23-25 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorToday, we announce the second Ultimate VBC/Illprepvb.com Player of the Week for the 2025 Boys/Girls Club season.Each week during the club season,we will be naming a “Player of the Week.” Coaches/club ...
The gang is back together at Adversity; Illini Elite, Sky High 18s perfect in WCPL
Sky HIgh Adidas 18 Elite is one of six teams that finished the weekend 6-0 in the 17/18 Open division seeding event of the Windy City Power League. On the home page is Adversity G18 Adidas' Grace Kreutz (Loyola Academy). By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorThe gang is back together at Adversity.Six-foot-1 outside hitter Grace Kreutz (Loyola Academy), who sat out last year with an injury and now wears a brace on her left leg, and 5-11 setter/rightside Victoria Belmonte (Fremd), who missed the last two years after suffering a knee injury and...
Belusa United’s Amanda Bagdonaite is the Ultimate VBC/Illprepvb Player of the Week
SPVB 18 Elite's Bella Bullington (22) was also nominated for Player of the Week after producing 48 kills and 10 aces during last weekend's preseason scrimmage at the Great Lakes Volleyball Center. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorToday, we announce the first Ultimate VBC/Illprepvb.com Player of the Week for the 2025 Boys/Girls Club season.Each week during the club season, we will be naming a “Player of the Week.” Coaches/club directors throughout Illinois have been invited to nominate a boys’ or girls’ pl...
Girls’ club season opens with WCPL seeding, GLC preseason scrimmage
SPVB 18 Elite's Faith Jordan (Joliet West) avoids the block of 1st Alliance 17 Gold's Natalie Surges (Brookfield East, Wisonsin) and Molly Welge (Benet Academy) during the GLC preseason scrimmage event at the Great Lakes Volleyball Center. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorIt’s time to get serious.The 2025 girls’ club season opened in earnest last weekend with the seeding portion of the Windy City Power League and preseason scrimmages held at the Great Lakes Volleyball Center in Aurora.We talked to a few coac...
Here are Michio Chicago/Illprepvb’s Girls 17s Club Preseason Rankings/Previews
Michio Chicago VBA's Savannah Weathers (10) of Marist is one of four players returning from the team that finished third in the 16 American division at last summer's USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Volleyball Championship in Las Vegas. On the home page is Illini Elite's Lilly Bosworth of IHSA Class 3A champion Mahomet-Seymour. (Photos by Dave Ruggles) Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, witho...
Here are Michio Chicago/Illprepvb’s Girls 18s Club Preseason Rankings/Previews
Beluse United 18 Cyclones welcomes back four players from the team that won the 18 Classic division title at the AAU Girls Junior National CHampionships in Orlando, Florida, last summer. Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, without Illprepvb.com, LLC’s written permission. By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorThe Illinois girls’ club season will begin in earnest in less than two weeks, and ...
Here are Michio Chicago/Illprepvb’s Girls 16s Club Preseason Rankings/Previews
Lockport's Malia Cole (15) is one of seven players returning for UNO Girls 16 Elite from last year's successful 15s team. _Photo by Dave Ruggles) Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, without Illprepvb.com, LLC’s written permission. By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorThe Illinois girls’ club season will begin in earnest this weekend, and today we continue our look at some of the top teams in ...
Here are Michio Chicago/Illprepvb’s Girls 15s Club Preseason Rankings/Previews
Freshman outside hitter Lexie Grevengoed (2) led Joliet West in kills this fall and is a big reason why her Sports Performance team enters the season ranked No. 1 among 15s. On the home page is anouther SPVB 15 Elite player, Allie Coyne, who led Wheaton Warrenville South in assists this fall. (Photos by Dave Ruggles) Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, without Illprepvb.com, LLC’s written permissi...
Presenting the ’25 Michio Chicago VBA/ Illprepvb.com Top 200 Girls Club Players
Sports Performance VBC 18 Elite outside hitter Haley Burgdorf from St. Charles North led all Illinois attackers this fall with 611 kills. (Photo by Dave Ruggles). Cover photo of Wild Bunch VBC players courtesy of Michelle Burzynski. Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, without Illprepvb.com, LLC’s written permission. By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com Editor The girls’ club season will kick o...
Sky High Adidas B17-1 stuns Drive Boys 17 Blue for Great Lakes Regional crown
Sky High Adidas B17-1 breaks the huddle after a few words of instruction from head coach Austin Thorsen during 17 Club division play at the 2024-25 Great Lakes Boys Regional Championships Sunday at the Wintrust Sports Complex in Bedford Park. On the home page, Chicago Legends 17 Black breaks during its 25-19, 25-18 loss to Sky High in the semfiinals. https://youtu.be/5bjA3xhEde8 By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorHow do you overcome a bad start?Easy. With a great finish.Yeah, but how do you overcome two bad starts?Sky High Adidas B17...