{"id":719478,"date":"2026-06-22T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719478\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:31:15","slug":"florio-u-s-womens-sitting-team-win-bronze-at-2026-dutch-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/719478\/","title":{"rendered":"Florio, U.S. Women’s Sitting Team Win Bronze at 2026 Dutch Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASSEN, Netherlands – Purdue Fort Wayne women’s volleyball head coach Steve Florio<\/a> and the United States Women’s Sitting National Team earned a bronze medal at the 2026 Dutch Tournament after going 4-2 over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The U.S. won matches against Poland, Ukraine, Netherlands and Germany and fell to Italy and Canada.<\/p>\n

Florio helped lead the team, along with Fort Wayne native and friend of the Mastodon women’s volleyball program, Cami Wood, for the second tournament in as many months. Florio also served as an assistant coach at the USAV Sitting Cup in May. \n<\/p>\n

U.S. Women’s Sitting National Team Roster

\nNo – Name (Position, Height, Hometown)

\n1 –\u00a0Lora Webster\u00a0(MB, 5-11, Point Lookout, N.Y.)

\n4 – Maddy Ball\u00a0(L, 5-7, Delray Beach, Fla.)

\n9 – Tia Edwards\u00a0(OH\/MB, 5-7, Skiatook, Okla.)

\n11 – Jillian Williams Coffee\u00a0(M\/OPP\/OH, 5-10, Odem, Texas)

\n12 – Emma Schieck\u00a0(OH, 5-7, Statesville, N.C.)

\n13 – Gia Cruz\u00a0(S, 5-5, San Antonio, Texas)

\n15 – Kendra Hall\u00a0(5-7, Westfield, Ind.)

\n16 – Nicky Nieves\u00a0(MB, 5-10, Kissimmee, Fla.)

\n17 – Jessie West\u00a0(OH, 5-8, Edmond, Okla.)

\n18 – Courtney Baker\u00a0(OH, 5-9, Crofton, Ky.)

\n19 – Cami Wood (S, Fort Wayne, Ind.)

\n20 – Kylee Doremus (S\/OH, Waverly, Neb.)

\n21 – Annie Flood\u00a0(S, 5-7, Salem, Ore.)

\n22 – MaKenzie Franklin-Wittman\u00a0(OH, 6-0, Red Wing, Minn.)

\n28 – Vivian Eagle (MB\/OH, Avon, Ind.)<\/p>\n

Head Coach:\u00a0Bill Hamiter

\nAssistant Coach:\u00a0Grace Campbell

\nAssistant Coach: Steve Florio<\/a>

\nTeam Leader: Layne Smith

\nPerformance Analyst:\u00a0Jeff Hicks

\nAthletic Trainer:\u00a0Samantha Carter<\/p>\n

~ Feel the Rumble ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASSEN, Netherlands – Purdue Fort Wayne women’s volleyball head coach Steve Florio and the United States Women’s Sitting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-719478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}