Sachem North alum Dylan Missry received word that he has made the 12-man roster for Team USA Volleyball to compete at the world championships.
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Missry, who plays at UCLA, has been training at Lake Placid with the 20-man team the last two weeks and cuts were made on Tuesday bringing the roster to 12.
USA scrimmaged Brazil already this week and they are headed to the Czech Republic now and will open up play on June 23.
From Team USA
The United States has never won a medal at the FIVB Men’s Under-21 World Championship.
The U.S. Men’s Junior National Team finished 11th in 2015 and 2013.
“At the youth level, the U.S. stacks up pretty well,” U.S. MJNT Head Coach Jay Hosack said. “The under-21 team is a completely different story. This is a group of kids who have played one to two years of college volleyball in respective gyms. In the rest of the world, players are already playing professionally.
“We have great talent. I think a top eight finish would be a good goal to shoot for. If we can get into the top four, it would be an outstanding finish for USA Volleyball at this level.”
The team shares its opening-round pool with Turkey, Cuba and Russia.