PVA wins Happy Volley Club Championship Cup

PVA congratulates our 18s, 16s & 14s teams for contributing points to accumuate our first Happy Volley Club Championship Cup trophy.

In addition, a specical congratulations to PVA 18s for winning the championship (a three-peat!).

The weekend's highlights for the 18s division were included in the PrepVolleyball.com June 4th Court Report, which is pasted below. The entire court report can be accessed with your membership login at www.prepvolleyball.com.


"PVA 18s won their third consecutive Happy Volley championship last weekend in State College, Pennsylvania.

The 18s played Saturday and Sunday without star Mariah Henley due to prom but cruised into the Gold Bracket on the strength of great serving by defensive players Julie Joyce and Brittany Stambaugh and efficient attacking by middles Rhiannon Fiala and Katrina Pisch.

On Monday, PVA took the final from Columbia 17s led by high flying Liz Brown and ultra-competitive setter Casey Giovanazzi. Columbia hung tight in Game 1 but had no answer for right sider Lauren Mobley, who scored at will from both sides of the court. A late Fiala block and Mobley kill down the line sealed Game 1, 25-23.

In game 2 it was Ashley Morgan early splitting the Columbia block and Pisch and Fiala late. Fiala has chosen to forgo college volleyball to major in engineering at Penn State and will start school before Nationals so this was her last match. And though it took her three swings, she put away match point, ending her club career with a kill and a tournament win.


Without the services of stud outside Sarah Brady, PVA 17s shuffled its line up, resulting in an undefeated weekend at the Happy Volley tourney in Pennsylvania until a heart-breaking three-game loss to a crafty Revolution 18s team in the quarterfinals of the 18s division.

With Russ Rose eying future PSU defender, Revolution's Maggie Harding, PVA’s Julie Harvey, a junior middle, put on a show in Game 1, scoring at will. "Rev" pulled away to win, 25-20, but PVA took the second, 26-24, and rode Harvey and a strong serving game to an 8-3 lead at the change in Game 3.

Two months earlier, Revolution bested PVA 17s in three and this day would prove no different. Led by the service attack of Juanita College-bound Rachelle Wiegand and a key solo block by Colleen Black (St. Francis University), the momentum swung back to Revolution, which never looked back, winning Game 3, 15-12.



Middles Harvey, Jenn Whalen and Katie Schock provided steady offense PVA’s team all weekend. With improving ball control and depth (and the return of Brady), this team's offensive capabilities could leave at mark a AAU/JVA Nationals in a few weeks.


PVA, from Philly, took the Happy Volley Cup with gold finishes by the 16s, who played without a setter; and the 14s, who finished third."

GO PVA!!