{"id":216734,"date":"2026-05-01T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216734\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:45:07","slug":"sdsu-basketball-star-brooklyn-meyer-joins-volleyball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216734\/","title":{"rendered":"SDSU basketball star Brooklyn Meyer joins volleyball team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; South Dakota State University\u2019s volleyball team has announced the addition of women\u2019s basketball standout Brooklyn Meyer to its roster for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBrooklyn is a champion, plain and simple,\u201d said volleyball head coach Dan Gerogalas. \u201cWe are excited to welcome an elite competitor with a championship mentality to our program. Her work ethic and physical preparation will make the transition to volleyball faster than most would think. Her legacy at SDSU is already enormous, and it will be special for volleyball to be part of one final chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meyer has exhausted her collegiate basketball eligibility but is allowed by the NCAA to play a fifth season in a different sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meyer played multiple sports at West Lyon High School, including three seasons on the varsity volleyball team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meyer was a three-time Summit League first-team selection, ranking third in SDSU women\u2019s basketball program history in career points, fifth in career rebounds, and tied for second in career blocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI am so excited to join the SDSU volleyball team and represent the Jacks for another season,\u201d said Meyer. \u201cIt has been so fun to watch this team over the last few years, and the opportunity to be a part of that as I pursue my master\u2019s degree is so special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meyer will play as a middle blocker for SDSU volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; South Dakota State University\u2019s volleyball team has announced the addition of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-216734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}