{"id":361872,"date":"2026-07-05T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361872\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:41:09","slug":"volleyball-quartet-selected-to-u-s-womens-u21-national-team-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361872\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball quartet selected to U.S. Women’s U21 National Team roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2013 Texas Volleyball’s Henley Anderson<\/a>, Genevieve Harris<\/a>, Taylor Harvey<\/a> and Abby Vander Wal<\/a> have been selected to the 14-player roster for the 2026 U.S. Women’s U21 National Team and will compete at the 2026 NORCECA Women’s U21 Pan American Cup, USA Volleyball announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

The quartet was originally among 20 athletes invited to train with the U21 National Team before earning spots on the final competition roster following training camp in Columbus.<\/p>\n

The U21 Pan American Cup is scheduled for July 7-12 at Covelli Center on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. During the same week, July 8-12, five former Longhorns, Saige Ka’aha’aina-Torres, Molly McCage, Asjia O’Neal, Logan Eggleston and Chiaka Ogbogu, will represent the United States during the final week of preliminary play in the Volleyball Nations League in Osaka, Japan, giving Texas nine current and former players competing for Team USA on the international stage.<\/p>\n

Each of the four current Longhorns has previous international experience with USA Volleyball, having competed at either the U19 or U21 World Championships.<\/p>\n

Tama Miyashiro will serve as head coach for the U21 team competing in Columbus, assisted by Alisha Childress and Alfee Reft.<\/p>\n

Tournament Schedule<\/p>\n


\n\tPool Play (July 7-9)
\n
\n\t
\n\t\tJuly 7: USA vs. Venezuela, 6 p.m. CT
\n\t\tJuly 8: USA vs. Mexico, 6 p.m. CT
\n\t\tJuly 9: USA vs. Canada, 6 p.m. CT
\n\t
\n\t
\n\tQuarterfinals (July 10): 4 and 6 p.m. CT
\n\tSemifinals & Placement Matches (July 11): 12, 2, 4 and 6 p.m. CT
\n\tChampionship Sunday (July 12): 12, 2, 4 and 6 p.m. PM CT <\/p>\n

Texas Longhorns National Team Experience<\/p>\n

Henley Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\t2024 U19 National Team \u2014 U19 Continental Championship (Gold)
\n\t2025 U19 National Team \u2014 FIVB U19 World Championship (Second), FIVB U21 World Championship (Ninth)
\n\t2026 U21 National Team \u2014 NORCECA U21 Pan American Cup <\/p>\n

Genevieve Harris<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\t2024 U19 National Team \u2014 U19 Continental Championship (Gold)
\n\t2025 U19 National Team \u2014 FIVB U19 World Championship (Second), FIVB U21 World Championship (Ninth)
\n\t2026 U21 National Team \u2014 NORCECA U21 Pan American Cup <\/p>\n

Taylor Harvey<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\t2023 U19 National Team \u2014 FIVB U19 World Championship
\n\t2023 U21 National Team \u2014 FIVB U21 World Championship (Sixth)
\n\t2024 U21 National Team \u2014 U21 Continental Championship (Gold)
\n\t2025 U21 National Team
\n\t2026 U21 National Team \u2014 NORCECA U21 Pan American Cup <\/p>\n

Abby Vander Wal<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\t2023 U19 National Team \u2014 U19 Pan American Cup (Gold), FIVB U19 World Championship (Gold, MVP, Best Outside Hitter), FIVB U21 World Championship (Sixth)
\n\t2024 U21 National Team \u2014 U21 Continental Championship (Gold)
\n\t2025 U21 National Team \u2014 U21 Pan American Cup (Gold)
\n\t2026 U21 National Team \u2014 NORCECA U21 Pan American Cup <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2013 Texas Volleyball’s Henley Anderson, Genevieve Harris, Taylor Harvey and Abby Vander Wal have been selected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-361872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361872","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=361872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}