Tallahassee Club Volleyball Team Earns Podium Finish at Nationals

The Tallahassee Volleyball Academy (TVA) 18’s club volleyball team recently traveled to Baltimore, Maryland to compete in the 2024 Girls 18’s Junior National Championship and came away with a third-place finish in the USA division.

Over 300 teams from across the country competed in the event, with the USA division fielding 48 teams. Each team was required to qualify for the tournament based on past performance. The TVA team won a bid in January by finishing second at the Florida Fest tournament in Fort Lauderdale.

 The TVA team qualified for “Gold Bracket” play on Sunday based on their performance in pool play on Saturday. In the quarter-finals TVA beat a team from Memphis, Tennessee, 25-21 & 25-20. In the semi-final, against a team from Southern California, TVA lost a hard fought first set 32-30 (sets are to 25, but team must win by 2) and then fell 25-18 in the second set.

TVA Director & TVA 18’s coach Katie Faurot told TR, “This team is special! I have never seen a group that loves and supports each other as much as this team does. They put in the work and made sacrifices most teenage girls would never dream of making. Most of our players missed their senior prom in order to go to Nationals. They are the true definition of a team! They have accomplished every goal they set forth this season. They will leave their mark as the best team to ever come out of the Tallahassee – area. I am so tremendously proud of them!”

Faurot added, “This team has qualified for Nationals since they were 15. They finished 5th last year at Nationals in 17s, and when we set team goals for this season, they made it abundantly clear they wanted to make the podium in their last year of club.”