COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-- Five North Dakota State University volleyball players -- Brianna Rasmusson, Hadley Steffen, Mikaela Purnell, Emily Miron and Jessica Jorgensen -- will travel to the U.S. Olympic Training Center to take part in the U.S. Women's National Team Open Tryouts starting on Friday, Feb. 19 and running through Sunday, Feb. 21.
The tryout will evaluate approximately 231 athletes from 88 colleges from across the country for spots on the U.S. Women's National Team, the U.S. Collegiate National Teams program and U.S. Junior National Team. Miron earned one of 36 spots on the 2014 U.S. Collegiate National Team, while Megan Lambertson was selected to the 2012 U.S. Women's National A2 Team Program.
Bison Athletic Hall of Famer and AVCA Division II Player of the Year Janet Cobbs Mulholland a was member of U.S. National Team from 1989 to 1994, to playing on the Bronze Medal American team at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
U.S. Women's National Team head coach Karch Kiraly and his staff will direct the tryout process. Kiraly is a three-time Olympic Gold Medalist and U.S. Olympic Hall of Famer. The tryout will involve four sessions with three waves per session. Friday's first session goes from 2-8 p.m. MT, while Saturday's sessions are at 8 a.m. (focus on serve/receive and individual work) and 2 p.m. (middle-centered and out-of-system focus). The tryout concludes at 8 a.m. Sunday with tournament style play, along with 16-18 athletes selected by the staff to participate in a "USA" training session.
All sessions of the tryout will be streamed live. USA Volleyball will use #USAVTryout as the tryout hashtag for photos, notes, quotes and stories posted to its social media platforms Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram under the handle @usavolleyball.
Selected athletes will be notified by early March. USA Volleyball will announce the selections by the end of March once all roster spots are confirmed.
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