League One Volleyball ( LOVB) on Thursday revealed Atlanta and Houston as the initial of its franchise business for its pro females’s organization readied to introduce in 2024.
LOVB claimed in a press release:
With LOVB’s Houston Skyline and A5’s durable club visibility in these cities, LOVB will tactically connect its pro groups to these clubs, assisting the organization to construct an ecological community of fandom, beginning on the very beginning as pro gamers come to be much more acquainted and obtainable to club gamers and the neighborhood at huge. A5 flaunts greater than 123 groups and Houston Skyline has 79 groups throughout 3 locations in the better Houston location. These LOVB clubs have actually established a variety of marquee gamers like Madisen Skinner from Houston Skyline and Marianna Singletary from A5, that were both component of Texas’s 2022 NCAA Volleyball champion group, along with others that have actually taken place to play in university and past.
LOVB likewise revealed that Olympian Haleigh Washington has actually signed up with the company. Previously LOVB authorized 2 of her gold-medal-winning colleagues, Kelsey Cook and Justine Wong-Orantes
“At LOVB, we are not just setting out to create another league, but to make major league volleyball in the US a reality,” Katlyn Gao, founder and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of LOVB, claimed in a press release. “We are being extremely systematic and deliberate in just how we construct. Through our neighborhood up design, which begins with our clubs, we are proactively producing a course from club to pro, along with constructing an ecological community of involved followers from the very beginning.
“We believe volleyball deserves to be on center stage and are incredibly proud of the strides we are making in the sport.”
We discussed LOVB in December 2021.
LOVB claimed its initial season will certainly consist of “six teams, in six different cities across the country. The inaugural season will begin with a pre-season in November 2024, and then will move onto the main season starting in January and concluding in April 2025.”
LOVB is the 3rd company to begin pro females’s volleyball in the UNITED STATE Athletes Unlimited has actually currently held 2 of its periods and the Pro Volleyball Federation likewise is introducing a pro organization in2024 PVF has actually revealed 4 franchise business locations, Columbus, Ohio; Omaha; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and, remarkably, likewise Atlanta.
