PVF All-Star Match comes to Fishers this weekend

FISHERS, Ind. – The stars of professional volleyball will play on the national stage right in central Indiana.

Fishers Event Center will host the inaugural PVF All-Star Match on Saturday. The event will be televised nationally on CBS (it will air on CBS4 locally). The broadcast is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

As of Friday morning, just a few tickets were still available.

Purdue’s Dave Shondell and Georgia Tech’s Michelle Collier will serve as coaches, with the teams named after each coach: Team Shondell and Team Collier.

Four Indy Ignite players made the squad:

• Leketor Member-Meneh (outside hitter)
• Sydney Hilley (setter)
• Azhani Tealer (opposite hitter)
• Kylie Murr (libero)

Murr will replace Member-Meneh, who won’t be able to participate in the All-Star Match due to injury. She ranks No. 2 in PVF with 143 digs.

Team Collier roster

• Leah Edmond, Atlanta Vibe (outside hitter)
• Morgan Hentz, Atlanta Vibe (libero)
• Megan Lush, Columbus Fury (outside hitter)
• Marin Grote, Grand Rapids Rise (middle blocker)
• August Raskie, Grand Rapids Rise (setter)
• Sydney Hilley, Indy Ignite (setter)
• Kylie Murr, Indy Ignite (libero)
• Kaitlyn Hord, Omaha Supernovas (middle blocker)
• Brittany Abercrombie, Orlando Valkyries (opposite hitter)
• Adora Anae, Orlando Valkyries (outside hitter)
• Ronika Stone, San Diego Mojo (middle blocker)
• Camryn Hannah, Vegas Thrill (opposite hitter)
• Hannah Maddux, Vegas Thrill (outside hitter)

Team Shondell roster

• Merritt Beason, Atlanta Vibe (opposite hitter) 
• Khori Louis, Atlanta Vibe (middle blocker)
• Carli Snyder, Grand Rapids Rise (outside hitter)
• Leketor Member-Meneh**, Indy Ignite (outside hitter)
• Azhani Tealer, Indy Ignite (opposite hitter/middle blocker)
• Camila Gómez, Omaha Supernovas (libero)
• Brooke Nuneviller, Omaha Supernovas (outside hitter)
• Kaz Brown, Orlando Valkyries (middle blocker)
• Pornpun Guedpard, Orlando Valkyries (setter)
• Shara Venegas, San Diego Mojo (libero)
• Alisha Childress, Vegas Thrill (setter)
• Charitie Luper, Vegas Thrill (outside hitter)
• Berkeley Oblad, Vegas Thrill (middle blocker)

**Unable to play due to injury

Voting from fans, coaches and league officials determined the roster. Selected All-Stars were split into two teams that will play a three-set match. The match will shake up how the winner is typically determined:

Rather than the typical way of determining the winner by the team taking the most sets, the PVF All-Star Match will be decided by combined point differential over the three sets. It means that even if a team loses the first two sets, it could still be the match winner if it captures the third set by more points than it lost the opening sets combined.

Players represent each of the league’s eight teams. The Vegas Thrill have the most All-Stars with five, with the Atlanta Vibe, Indy Ignite and Orlando Valkyries sending four players each.

Jalen Rose, the retired NBA star whose career include six seasons with the Indiana Pacers, will co-host the match with Shawn Johnson East, a four-time Olympic gymnastics medalist.