{"id":757796,"date":"2026-06-24T19:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:55:11","slug":"volleyball-australia-announces-the-australian-boys-u18-team-for-the-2026-avc-volleyball-championships-volleyball-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757796\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball Australia announces the Australian Boy\u2019s U18 Team for the 2026 AVC Volleyball Championships \u2013 Volleyball Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Volleyball-Aus-website-header-3-1024x585.png\" class=\"bizberg_featured_image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Volleyball Australia announces the Australian Boy\u2019s U18 Team for the 2026 AVC Volleyball Championships\" title=\"Volleyball Australia announces the Australian Boy\u2019s U18 Team for the 2026 AVC Volleyball Championships\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tVolleyball Australia announces the Australian Boy\u2019s U18 Team for the 2026 AVC Volleyball Championships<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volleyball Australia is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent Australia at the upcoming Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Boy\u2019s U18 Volleyball Championships taking place from July 12-18 in Haikou, China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The selected team is a mix of athletes making their debut for Australia, alongside several players who represented the Australian U16 team in Thailand, last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team will be under the guidance of Head Coach Ben Hardy throughout the duration of the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volleyball Australia would like to congratulate the following athletes on their selection:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alex Liang (QLD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Rossi (NSW)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dylan Ottaway (QLD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eddie Kerwin (SA)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethan Smith (SA)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethan Yu (NSW)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flynn Niu (QLD)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gabriel Haddad (VIC)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jai Saini (QLD)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Junae Numata (QLD\/VRoo32)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luc Hancock (SA)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitchell Wayne (QLD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryder Cameron-Edwards (SA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunny Telleman (QLD)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Head Coach:\u00a0Ben Hardy (ACT)<br \/>Assistant Coach:\u00a0Nathan Roberts (SA)<br \/>Assistant Coach\/Manager:\u00a0Peter Fitzgerald (WA)<br \/>Scout: Ian Hillock (QLD)<br \/>Physiotherapist:\u00a0Deepa Herft (ACT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volleyball Australia extends its best wishes to the team as they prepare to represent the nation with pride and determination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Volleyball Australia announces the Australian Boy\u2019s U18 Team for the 2026 AVC Volleyball Championships Volleyball Australia is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-757796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}