Verified Utah volleyball coverage built from official roster pages, school recaps, and conference material.
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UVU's current roster makes volleyball easy to cover in a way that feels specific to Utah. Sami Blackett brings an Orem story and all-conference production. Alyvia Jaffa brings Morgan roots and a career-high performance that shows where the Wolverines' front-row depth lives.
That matters because volleyball coverage works best when it is attached to athlete development and community familiarity, not only standings.
The Wolverines entered 2025 picked first in the WAC preseason poll, which gave the program immediate stakes. Add in in-state athletes and official match recaps with identifiable moments, and the sport becomes one of the site's strongest growth lanes.
This hub keeps those pieces together so Utah volleyball readers can move between the program story and the athlete story without losing context.
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Sami Blackett is a 6-1 junior outside hitter from Orem who leads Utah State in kills, service aces and points in the Aggies' first Pac-12 season. The 2023 Utah 4A State Player of the Year and a two-time First Team All-WAC selection at Utah Valley, she is the only Aggie ranked among the team's top five in all five statistical categories, and produced a season-high 20 kills against her former program on September 17, 2026.
Alyvia Jaffa was a Utah Valley middle blocker from Morgan High School and Utah Hive who played through the 2025 season, when she set a career high against Navy. She is no longer listed on the Wolverines' 2026 volleyball roster.
Dani Jensen was a libero and defensive specialist on USU Eastern's 2025-26 volleyball roster, a Price native out of Carbon High School. She is no longer listed on the Eagles' 2026-27 roster.
Raven Rodriguez was a setter on USU Eastern's 2025-26 volleyball roster, a Herriman product out of Riverton High School. She is no longer listed on the Eagles' 2026-27 roster.
Published stories
The reporting here keeps the athlete pages, team pages, and school pages connected through the same sport.
On back-to-back road weekends, USU Eastern volleyball answered a sweep at No. 12 College of Southern Idaho with a 3-1 win the next day, then rallied from two sets down to beat No. 12 Snow College. The Eagles are 11-10 and 4-2 in the Scenic West.
Picked seventh in the Big Sky preseason poll, Utah Tech volleyball is 11-3 and 4-0 in its first season in the league, with eight straight wins and the first five-match sweep streak in the program's NCAA era.
BYU women's volleyball is 10-1 and 2-0 in the Big 12 after a four-set win at Kansas State on Oct. 1, 2026. Elli Mortensen, Claire Little Chambers and Kelli Jo Burgess lead a seven-match winning streak in Rob Neilson's first season.
AJ Cottle, Trevor Herget and Connor Oldani were on the U.S. roster that beat Costa Rica 3-1 in San Salvador for the country's first men's U23 Pan American Cup title, finishing 4-0 and dropping one set.
Utah swept No. 21 Colorado, rallied past No. 17 Baylor and opened Big 12 play 2-0 behind Princess Atamah's two-way work and a five-match winning streak.
Utah State answered a first-set loss with three straight wins against Gonzaga, hitting a season-best .357 and blocking 12 balls in the first Pac-12 victory by any Aggie team.
Snow College answered a first-set loss by winning 27-25, 25-23 and 28-26 against No. 4 Salt Lake Community College, splitting the opening Scenic West weekend in Ephraim.
Sami Blackett has 106 kills, 12 aces and 129.5 points through nine matches, leads Utah State in three statistical categories and is the only Aggie in the team's top five in all five.
Tessa Treanor hit .500 with a career-high 20 kills against San José State, then added a 10-kill, 12-dig double-double at UC Irvine. On September 14 the Big Sky named the Salem Hills graduate its Offensive Player of the Week.
USU Eastern beat Western Nebraska, Treasure Valley and Central Wyoming at the CSI Starr Corporation Invite, then lost three of four at the Bruin Bash. Both weekends land before the Scenic West opener on September 18.
No. 5 SLCC beat Odessa College in four sets, then pushed reigning national champion and No. 1 Miami Dade through four more sets as the Bruins opened the 2026 Bruin Bash at home.
Weber State swept its own Wildcat Invitational and is unbeaten at Swenson Gym. Utah State and BYU visit Ogden on September 15 and 17 before a trip to Utah Valley closes the non-conference schedule.
Snow College is 7-4 and ranked No. 14, and Clinton freshman middle blocker Emily Kenison has earned SWAC Player of the Week with 48 kills and 32 blocks through 26 sets.
Orem's Sami Blackett brings two First Team All-WAC seasons and 771 career kills from Utah Valley to Utah State, landing on the Pac-12 Preseason Impact List as the Aggies enter a new conference.
No. 7 SLCC volleyball went 3-1 at the Battle at the Beach in Fort Myers, Florida: a sweep of Polk State, a four-set upset of host No. 2 Florida Southwestern, a five-set loss to Daytona State and a four-set win over Eastern Florida State.
In first-year coach Alyssa D'Errico's debut, Utah volleyball took three of four sets from Weber State in an August 15 exhibition, leaning on aggressive serving and a balanced attack.
Utah's home volleyball match against UCLA will air on ESPN, one of seven Big 12 programs the network is featuring in 2026 — and it comes off a team that just earned national academic honors.
Utah State's 2026 volleyball signing class includes eight transfers, four freshmen and eight players with Utah high-school or hometown ties ahead of the Aggies' first Pac-12 season.
Utah Valley leaves the WAC for the Big West on July 1, 2026, competing in 13 league-sponsored sports while wrestling stays affiliated with the Big 12.
Six Utah women's college athletes — across volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse — whose 2025-26 seasons are already on the record, from UVU's All-WAC outside hitter to a Westminster home-opener hero.
The Eagles' 2025-26 roster has both a Price hometown anchor and a Herriman setter path, giving USU Eastern volleyball a stronger local frame.
USU Eastern's NJCAA volleyball program in Price has moved players into Division I rosters for years, and the 2025 Eagles roster keeps that pipeline visible statewide.
The Wolverines opened the season on top of the preseason poll, and the resumes of Sami Blackett and Alyvia Jaffa explain why Utah Valley carried real conference weight.
A career-high performance against Navy gave Utah Valley a specific front-row story to carry into the rest of a season that began with WAC-title expectations.