Former Boles Lady Hornet Bailey Miller, who just finished her college career with 28-4 Arizona State, is joining an Austin team in an indoor professional volleyball league.

The Austin team in the League One Volleyball league announced the addition of the 6-3 Miller.

As an outside hitter this past season at Arizona State, Miller earned first-team All-Big 12 honors, All-Pacific All-Region honors, academic all-district honors and was named to the honorable mention list on the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s all-America team.

Miller finished second on the team in kills for the season with 392 to go with 37 assists, 39 aces, 52 blocks and 293 digs.

She played two seasons at Arizona State and two at West Virginia after leading the Boles Lady Hornets in kills and blocks during her high school career.

There are other LOVB pro teams in Houston, Madison, Wisc., Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Ga., and Omaha, Neb.

League play starts on Jan. 7.

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Dr. Marcus Sedberry, a former Greenville Lion athlete, served as the General Manager for the University of Wisconsin’s football program this season.

His duties included overseeing roster management, player personnel and operations for the Badgers. He’s also served as a Deputy Athletic Director for Wisconsin.

Sedberry, who ran track at Nebraska after running on a state finalist 4x400 relay for the Greenville Lions, has also been an administrator at Baylor, Central Florida, Arkansas and in the National Football League with the Philadelphia Eagles.

His father Marvin Sedberry Sr. coached three stints as the head football coach of the Greenville Lions and his brother Marvin Sedberry Jr. is the head football coach of the Terrell Tigers.

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Nevaeh Zavala’s double-double helped High Point to an 85-83 double-overtime women’s basketball victory over Yale.

Zavala, a 6-0 senior from Royse City, scored 21 points and pulled down a team-high 14 rebounds.

Zavala is averaging 9.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game for the 11-2 Panthers, who’ll next play at North Carolina-Asheville on Dec. 31.

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Maggie Hutka, a 6-0 junior from Royse City,scored two points and pulled down a rebound during Montana’s 90-85 women’s basketball victory over Tarleton State.

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Brett Nix, a former Wolfe City basketball player, has scored 14 points and pulled down three rebounds in two basketball games this season for Oklahoma Science and Arts.

Nix, a 6-0 freshman who transferred from Wayland Baptist, is shooting 57.1% from 3-point range for the 5-8 Drovers.

Three Greenville Lady Lions earned All-District 9-5A honors in volleyball, led by senior Jaxey Walker.

Walker repeated as a first-team selection. Walker, who was a setter and a right-side hitter, led the Lady Lions for the season in kills with 296 to go with 46 service aces, 18 blocks, 253 digs and a team-high 357 assists.

Greenville senior Caitlyn Teague and junior McKenzie Scarbrough made the second team.

Teague ranked second on the team in kills with 138 to go with 10 aces, a team-high 70 blocks, 33 digs and nine assists.

Scarbrough recorded 63 digs, seven aces, 28 blocks, 54 digs and eight assists.

Greenville sophomore setter Gail Lazoda also made the honorable mention list. Lazoda ranked second on the team in assists with 291 to go with 20 kills, 27 aces and 127 digs.

McKinney North, which won the district title with a 14-0 record, claimed four of the top honors with libero Gabi Rodriguez as the Most Valuable Player, Chloe Lewis as the Blocker of the Year, defensive specialist Brynli Burgess as the Newcomer of the Year and the McKinney North staff as the Coaching Staff of the Year.

Walnut Grove of Prosper finished second in the district standings at 12-2, followed by 10-4 Lucas Lovejoy, 8-6 Melissa, 5-9 Anna, 4-10 Sherman, 2-12 Greenville and 1-13 Denison.

All-District 9-5A Girls Volleyball Team

Most Valuable Player — Gabi Rodriguez, L, McKinney North, Sr.

Offensive MVP — Danielle Whitmere, DS, Prosper Walnut Grove, Fr.

Co-Defensive MVPs — Skylar Jackson, OH, Lucas Lovejoy, Sr.; Cadence Castleberry, L, Melissa, Fr.

Blocker of the Year — Chloe Lewis, MB, McKinney North, Sr.

Setter of the Year — Mia Evans, Prosper Walnut Grove, Sr.

Newcomer of the year — Brynli Burgess, DS, McKinney North, Fr.

Coaching Staff of the Year — McKinney North

FIRST-TEAM ALL-DISTRICT

OH — Anna Sayman McKinney North So.

RS — Nicole Jacobson McKinney North Jr.

MB — Kaitlyn Jefferson McKinney North Sr.

RS

— Kate Clegg Walnut Grove So.

MB — Kyndall Smith Walnut Grove So.

MB — Mary Esler

Walnut Grove Sr.

OH

— Bella Lopez

Lovejoy Sr.

MB

— Addie Lloyd Lovejoy Sr.

MB

— Duura Kpea

Melissa

Sr.

S — Presley Willford Melissa

Sr.

MB

— Mya Shirley

Anna Fr.

S/RS — Jaxey Walker

Greenville

Sr.

OH

— Jada Washington Sherman Sr.

MB

— Tacorian Babers Denison Jr.

SECOND-TEAM ALL-DISTRICT

S — Jordan Kowallis

McKinney North Sr.

S — Malia McNeal McKinney North Jr.

OH/DS — Vivian Crumley Walnut Grove

Sr.

OH/DS — Haylee Claypoole

Walnut Grove

Jr.

MB — Ceclia Fuente Lovejoy Sr.

RS/S — Emerson Boyd Lovejoy

Sr.

OH/RS — Kennedy Scott

Melissa

Sr.

RS/MB — Lynli Dittfurth Melissa Sr.

S — Kylee Jones Anna

Jr.

DS

— Avery Jones Anna Jr.

MB — Caitlyn Teague

Greenville

Sr.

RS

— McKenzie Scarbrough Greenville

Jr.

MB —

Shepherd Martin

Sherman

Sr.

S/RS — Madelyn Whitmire Sherman Sr.

MB — Judilee Bess Denison Sr.

OH/DS — Alexis Farley Denison

Sr.

HONORABLE MENTION

Lovejoy: Avery Gray, DS/L, Sr.; Coco Natarajan, Sr.; Emory Hoover, RS, Sr.

Greenville: Gali Lazoda, S, So.

Walnut Grove: Hailey Graham, DS, Jr.; Lauren Aguilar, DS, Jr.

Sherman: Mary Clare Foley, OH, Sr.; Kyra Reeves, MB, So.; Piper Morgan, DS, Sr.

Denison: Katie-Lynn Douglas, L, Sr.; Jamison Milner, S, Jr.

Anna: Mya Sims, OH, So.; Hayden Norton, DS, So.; Mia Freitag, S, Sr.; Serenity Samules, OH, So.

Melissa: Brooklynn Johnson-Love, MB/RS, Fr.; Rachel Lewis, OH/DS, Sr.; Lily Murphy, MB/RS, Sr.; Regan Lipsett, DS, Jr.

JAMM AQUINO / APRIL 26 Hawaii men’s volleyball coach Charlie Wade guided the Rainbow Warriors to 27 wins and a Big West Conference championship last season.

JAMM AQUINO / APRIL 26 Hawaii men’s volleyball coach Charlie Wade guided the Rainbow Warriors to 27 wins and a Big West Conference championship last season.

The Hawaii men’s volleyball team will open its 2026 season in 10 days ranked No. 2 in the country according to the AVCA National Collegiate Men’s Volleyball Preseason Poll released today.

The Rainbow Warriors, who finished 27-6 last season and won a Big West championship before losing in the semifinals of the NCAA Championship, received seven of 25 first-place votes and was eight points behind No. 1 UCLA, which ended Hawaii’s season in a three-set sweep in Columbus, Ohio in May.

Defending national champion Long Beach State received five first-place votes and is ranked No. 3 going into the season, ahead of Pepperdine and No. 5 Southern California, which earned the final first-place vote.

The other Big West teams in the top 20 include No. 6 UC Irvine, No. 10 UC San Diego, No. 11 Cal State Northridge and No. 17 UC Santa Barbara.

UH’s nonconferene schedule includes home matches on Jan. 6 and 8 against No. 7 Loyola Chicago and road trips at No. 9 Stanford and No. 13 Penn State.

Hawaii also hosts the fourth-ranked Waves and will play No. 12 Lewis and the top-ranked Bruins in the Outrigger Invitational.

A four-team NIL Tournament in currently scheduled for Feb. 19 and 20 in the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., and will feature four of the top five teams in the poll.

Hawaii lost starters Kurt Nusterer and ‘Eleu Choy to graduation last season but return its top four leaders in kills as well as junior setter Tread Rosenthal.

Rosenthal was named to the All-Big West first team along with returning sophomores Adrien Roure and Kristian Titriyski.

UH opens the season against NJIT on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026, at 7 p.m. at Bankoh Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.

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Dec. 23—GRAND FORKS — UND has its new volleyball coach.

The Fighting Hawks have hired David Nguyen from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.

He replaces Jesse Tupac, whose contract was not renewed at the end of the season.

Nguyen brought Fairleigh Dickinson to the NCAA tournament in 2022 and won the Northeast Conference (NEC) regular-season championship in 2023.

Nguyen was named NEC coach of the year twice in four seasons at Fairleigh Dickinson.

His teams went 9-5, 11-3, 11-3 and 12-4 in the NEC. Before his arrival, Fairleigh Dickinson went 3-11, 2-6, 3-13, 0-14, 1-13 and 1-13 in the NEC.

"What he has been able to do at FDU was nothing short of remarkable in such a short amount of time," UND athletic director Bill Chaves said. "To be a two-time NEC Coach of the Year and leading the Knights into the NCAA tournament for the first time in their history is something that he and we believe can be replicated at UND."

Nguyen will have a similar rebuilding project at UND.

The Fighting Hawks have posted eight consecutive losing seasons as the program spiraled from a strong mid-major under Ashley Hardee (2009-13) and Mark Pryor (2014-18) to a floundering team in the Summit League.

UND went 7-20 and 4-12 in the Summit last season. It has not yet won a match at the Summit League tournament since joining the conference in 2018.

"My mission is to provide our student-athletes a first-class experience by being competitive on and off the court," Nguyen said. "We are going to work together to build a legacy our student-athletes, alumni, fans and donors can be proud of. I am excited to take this next step in my career, and I look forward to building a volleyball family at North Dakota."

This will be Nguyen's first coaching venture out West.

He attended Virginia Commonwealth University from 2013-18, serving as team manager. He was the director of operations at Virginia from 2018-19.

Nguyen was hired as an assistant coach at William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., from 2019-21. He served as an assistant at Coastal Carolina in Conway, S.C., from 2021-22, before heading to Fairleigh Dickinson in Madison, N.J.

When he was hired at Fairleigh Dickinson, he had support from people at his previous stops.

"Coaching is in David's DNA," William and Mary coach Tim Doyle said in 2022. "He's built to lead volleyball teams. I'm excited to see his purpose come to life at Fairleigh Dickinson. They say a team takes on the personality of its head coach. If that's the case, FDU will be known for working tirelessly, and like David, they'll never quit."

UND has a tie with Fairleigh Dickinson. Chaves' son, Derek, is a graduate assistant with the Knights this year.

Tupac spent four seasons at UND, going 35-77 (.313). His contract expires Dec. 31. UND announced last month that the school and Tupac mutually agreed to part ways at the end of his contract.