Century standout travels through Europe with Northern Lights Volleyball club team

Jan. 7—The Northern Lights Volleyball 16-1 membership group spent the vacations touring via Europe and competing in two tournaments overseas Dec. 25-Jan. 5.

The group received the 18U Youth Alpen Event in Innsbruck, Austria and took third place within the 19U SV Dynamo Worldwide Youth Event in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

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The 16-1 group out of Burnsville, Minn., is made up of gamers from excessive colleges across the state, together with Rochester Century’s sophomore Laney Stellmaker. Different gamers on the roster attend Eagan, Prior Lake, St. Paul Academy, Lakeville North, East Ridge, Thomas Jefferson (Bloomington), Waconia and Chanhassen.

In response to its web site, the SV Dynamo event “ensures three days of top-level volleyball with the perfect youth groups from the Netherlands and past. For a lot of golf equipment, the youth event has been the best preparation for the Open Membership (nationwide championships for membership groups). Overseas high youth groups see the event as a novel alternative to measure their power towards European opponents.”

The NLV 16-2 group additionally traveled and competed within the tournaments, ending third in Apeldoorn and sixth in Innsbruck.

Gamers from each groups documented their travels with journals and movies.

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Stellmaker, an All-Huge 9 choice, recorded 493 set assists, 200 kills, 313 digs, 61 ace serves and 20 blocks throughout her sophomore marketing campaign with the Panthers. She additionally reached 1,000 profession set assists through the 2025 season.