U.S. Men Announce 14-Player Pan Am Cup Roster, Representing 10 Schools

  0 Wendy Mayer | August 24th, 2018 | International Volleyball, News, NORCECA volleyball, U.S. Men's National Team

As the United States looks to earn its sixth Pan Am Cup title, the team will look to 14 players to get the job done.

The Americans, which most recently reached the podium in 2014 (silver) and last earned gold in 2012, will be under the leadership of setter Jonah Seif, who has been selected as team captain.

In addition to Seif, the team includes five other players who were on the 2017 Pan American Cup team, which finished fifth: Price Jarman, Mitch Stahl, Arvis Greene, Jake Arnitz and David Wieczorek.

Pepperdine men’s coach David Hunt will act as head coach for the team, which will play Aug. 28 to Sept. 2 in Cordova, Veracruz, Mexico. Joining Hunt on the coaching staff are UCLA assistant John Hawks and USC assistant Greg Walker.

“I talked a lot with John Speraw about not just where guys are right now, but who could help the senior team in the future,” Hunt said. “This is an opportunity to see some guys who haven’t played a lot in a match environment.

“We have a lot of size and physicality. So far, we’re showing to be a pretty good blocking team. Our challenge is going to be our ability to side out against teams that run something different than we’re used to. But I’d rather be in our pool than an easier pool and have to go from zero-to-110 in the quarterfinals and semifinals.”

The American men are in a pool with defending champion Argentina, Puerto Rico and Peru.

The players hail from 10 different schools, including three from national runnerup UCLA (Mitch Stahl, Jake Arnitz, J.T. Hatch) and two each from Stanford (James Shaw, Kyle Dagostino) and Pepperdine (Matt Pollock, David Wieczorek).

The 14-person man roster is below.

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Wendy Mayer

Wendy Mayer has worked in athletics media relations for the last 20 years. The Northwest Missouri State alumna is currently senior writer for Volleymob.com after spending the last 15 years with Purdue athletics.

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