The USA males will be a part of the USA girls in Paris.
Not that there was a lot doubt that each groups could be within the 2024 Olympics, however the males clinched their spot Saturday by sweeping Serbia within the Street to Paris Volleyball Qualifier in Tokyo.
The 25-18. 25-18, 25-17 victory left the Individuals 6-0 with now one meaningless match to play, Sunday in opposition to host Japan.
“I’m actual pleased with the group,” USA coach John Speraw advised us from Tokyo. “That they had an unimaginable event, they performed an unimaginable match tonight. Our offense was pretty much as good as I’ve seen all of it summer time.”
There have been 5 gamers with six kills every. Matt Anderson and Jeff Jendryk had 9 kills every, Aaron Russell had eight, Max Holt seven (and 4 aces) and TJ DeFalco six.
“We had been passing the ball rather well and (setter Micah Christenson) was simply good,” Speraw mentioned. “Even when Serbia was making some nice swings we’d simply go aspect out.”
The USA roster has been constant all 12 months as Speraw put all concentrate on attending to Paris.
In Volleyball Nations League, the Individuals acquired to the ultimate earlier than dropping in 4 to host Poland.
Final month, they gained NORECA gold for the primary time since 2017.
“It’s been an important summer time for us and we proceed to enhance in quite a lot of totally different sides of the sport,” Speraw mentioned. “We’re turning into a way more full group and tougher group to beat.
“I’m actually happy with the work the boys have put in and the way onerous they’ve been targeted on getting higher. It’s a veteran group and generally with veteran groups there’s rather less willingness to do new issues and I believe that’s not been the case with this group. I believe we’ve actually strived to proceed to enhance and I believe the outcomes present.”
On this event, the USA swept Egypt and Finland, beat Türkiye in 4, swept Tunisia after which beat Slovenia in 4.
Two groups from every pool make the 12-team Olympic event. Defending Olympic-champion France will get an computerized bid as host and the remaining 5 spots will probably be crammed subsequent 12 months.
In Pool B of this event, the USA stood two video games up within the win column on Japan and Slovenia — who performed one another later Saturday — with one to play, adopted by Serbia and Türkiye at 3-3. Egypt is 2-4, Finland 1-5 and Tunisia 0-6. Sunday, along with USA vs. Japan, Slovenia performs Serbia with their bid on the road.
In Pool A, with matches later Saturday in Rio, Germany is 5-0 and Italy and Brazil are 4-1. Germany performs Qatar, Italy performs Cuba and Brazil performs Iran. Brazil performs Italy on Sunday and Germany performs Ukraine.
In Pool C in China, Poland — which beat the Netherlands — additionally clinched with Belgium and Canada tied at 4-2. Sunday, Belgium performs Bulgaria and Canada faces Mexico.
“We’re clearly thrilled,” mentioned Speraw, whose group beat France to open the Tokyo Olympics, however then misplaced within the quarterfinals. France went on to win the gold medal.
“We’ve yet another match left and are going to play onerous however then we’re going to rejoice attaining an important aim and an important summer time with a pleasant VNL run and a gold medal in NORCECA and now qualifying for the Olympic Video games. It’s been an excellent summer time of 2023 and we sit up for the summer time of 2024.”
The USA girls, who gained the gold medal in Tokyo in 2021, clinched their Paris bid in Poland final month.
