COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 6, 2025) \u2013 The U.S. Women\u2019s National Team is bringing 16 athletes, including five with Texas ties, to round three of the 2025 Volleyball Nations League (VNL), July 9-13, at the UT Arlington College Park Center in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n
Tickets are still available for all four U.S. matches. Buy your tickets now<\/a>.<\/p>\n Outside hitter Avery Skinner (Katy, Texas; Baylor) and middle blocker Asjia O\u2019Neal (Southlake, Texas; Univ. of Texas; LOVB Austin) are among the key additions to the week three roster. Skinner helped the U.S. to a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and O\u2019Neal has been part of VNL rosters since 2023.<\/p>\n The Texas connections don\u2019t stop there. Outside hitters Logan Eggleston (Univ. of Texas, LOVB Austin) and Madisen Skinner (Katy, Texas; Univ. of Texas, LOVB Austin), along with middle blocker Brionne Butler (Kendleton, Texas; Univ. of Texas), will also suit up for the U.S. in Arlington.<\/p>\n Avery Skinner isn\u2019t the only 2024 Paris Olympian making her return to the lineup. Setter Jordyn Poulter, a two-time Olympic medalist, is on the roster after being an alternate in week one. Middle blocker Dana Rettke will compete in week three as well, bringing the number of Olympians on the U.S. squad to three.<\/p>\n The Arlington roster also features four athletes making their 2025 VNL debut: Stephanie Samedy, Danielle Cuttino, Tia Jimerson and Taylor Mims.<\/p>\n Samedy has been a fixture on U.S. Pan American Cup teams since 2020, helping the team earn five medals in that time. Cuttino, a national team member since 2019, has competed in the last three VNL seasons.<\/p>\n Jimerson will make her first VNL appearance. She was a standout for LOVB Atlanta in its inaugural season, and prior to that, earned multiple \u201cBest Blocker\u201d honors during her time playing professionally in Hungary, Portugal and Germany. Mims, meanwhile, brings international experience from the Pan Am Cup and Pan Am Cup Final Six, where she helped the U.S. earn gold and bronze medals in 2023.<\/p>\n Rounding out the roster are Morgan Hentz, Rachel Fairbanks, Sarah Franklin, Roni Jones-Perry and Lexi Rodriguez, all of whom traveled with the team during at least one of the first two VNL weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are excited to return to Arlington for another year,\u201d said head coach Erik Sullivan. \u201cIt\u2019s a great venue with great fans and it\u2019s always special competing in front of a home crowd for VNL. I am looking forward to building on the momentum we gained from the end of week two, and I think this roster for week three brings a good mix of talent that will position us well to compete against some tough competition.\u201d<\/p>\n The VNL brings together the world\u2019s top 18 teams for three weeks of preliminary play, with each team competing in four matches per week. Only the top eight teams will earn a spot in the Final Round, where a VNL title will be on the line.<\/p>\n The U.S. Women are the reigning Olympic silver medalists and ranked No. 7 in the world. They have won the VNL three times (2018, \u201919, \u201921) since its inception in 2018. In 2024, they lost in the quarterfinals to eventual Olympic champion Italy,<\/p>\n U.S. Women\u2019s Week Three Roster for 2025 VNL<\/p>\n No. Name (Pos., Ht., Hometown, College, USAV Region) Coaches Week 3 Schedule: Arlington, Texas (all times PDT) July 9 at 5:30 p.m. vs. Thailand Week 1 Results: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Week 2 Results: Belgrade, Serbia
2 Jordyn Poulter<\/a> (S, 6-2, Aurora, Colo., Illinois, Rocky Mountain)
3 Avery Skinner<\/a> (OH, 6-1, Katy, Texas, Kentucky, Lone Star)
6 Morgan Hentz<\/a>\u202f(L, 5-9, Lakeside Park, Ky., Stanford Univ., Pioneer)
7\u202fLexi Rodriguez<\/a>\u202f(L, 5-5, Sterling, Ill., Univ. of Nebraska Great Lakes)
8\u202fBrionne Butler<\/a> (MB, 6-4, Kendleton, Texas, Univ. of Texas, Lone Star)
9\u202fMadisen Skinner<\/a>\u202f(OH, 6-2, Katy, Texas, Univ. of Kentucky and Univ. of Texas, Lone Star)
11 Taylor Mims<\/a> (Opp, 6-3, Billings, Mont., Washington St., Evergreen)
15 Rachel Fairbanks<\/a> (S, 6-0, Tustin, Calif., Pitt, Southern California)
16\u202fDana Rettke<\/a>\u202f(MB, 6-8, Riverside, Ill., Univ. of Wisconsin, Great Lakes)
18 Asjia O\u2019Neal<\/a> (MB, 6-3, Southlake, Texas, Texas, North Texas)
20 Danielle Cuttino<\/a> (Opp, 6-4, Indianapolis, Ind., Purdue, Hoosier)
21\u202fRoni Jones-Perry<\/a>\u202f(OH, 6-0, West Jordan, Utah, BYU, Intermountain)
22\u202fSarah Franklin<\/a>\u202f(OH, 6-4, Lake Worth, Fla., Univ. of Wisconsin, Florida)
25 Tia Jimerson<\/a> (MB, 6-3, Sugar Hill, Ga., Univ. of Ohio, Southern)
33\u202fLogan Eggleston<\/a>\u202f(OH, 6-2, Brentwood, Tenn., Univ. of Texas, Southern)
34 Stephanie Samedy<\/a> (Opp, 6-2, Clermont, Fla., Minnesota, Florida)<\/p>\n
Head Coach: Erik Sullivan<\/a>
Assistant Coach: Mike Wall<\/a>
Second Assistant Coach: Brandon Taliaferro<\/a>
Second Assistant Coach: Tayyiba Haneef-Park<\/a>
Second Assistant Coach: Joe Trinsey
Team Manager: Rob Browning
Team Doctors: William Briner, James Suchy, Chris Lee, Andrew Gregory
Physiotherapist: Kara Kessans
Physical Trainers: Shawn Hueglin, Shannon Boone
Mental Performance Coach: Andrea Becker, Katy Stanfill
Performance Analyst:\u202fVirginia Pham<\/p>\n
Matches will be shown on VBTV, Big Ten Network and\/or CBS Sports Network. Please check listings for BTN and CBSN.<\/p>\n
July 10 at 5:30 p.m. vs. Dominican Republic
July 12 at 5:30 p.m. vs. Canada
July 13 at 5:00 p.m. vs. China<\/p>\n
June 4 Italy def. USA, 3-0 (25-13, 25-13, 30-28)
June 5 Brazil def. USA, 3-0 (25-18, 25-17, 25-19)
June 6 Czechia def. USA, 3-2 (23-25, 20-25, 25-17, 25-20, 27-25)
June 8 USA def Korea, 3-0 (25-13, 28-26, 25-17)<\/p>\n
June 18 USA def. Serbia, 3-2 (25-22, 25-20, 22-25, 22-25, 15-11)
June 19 Poland def. USA, 3-1 (20-25, 25-20, 25-17, 25-18)
June 21 USA def. Netherlands, 3-0 (25-18, 25-22, 25-19)
June 22 USA def. France, 3-2 (25-22, 26-24, 20-25, 21-25, 15-13)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 6, 2025) \u2013 The U.S. Women\u2019s National Team is bringing 16 athletes, including five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-17962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}