MONZA– M reinforINT Monza is serious and in view of the championship and Champions League it has strengthened the central defenders department with an authentic champion: the US international Taylor Averill, who after seven years has decided to try his hand again in the Italian championship.
Born in Portland (Oregon) on March 5, 1992, Averill is ready to bring power and experience to Eccheli’s court. He returns to the Super League after the seasons played with Padova (2015-2017) and Milan (2017/18). Currently involved with the American national team, of which he has been a member continuously since 2014, “Sunny” (this is his nickname) in the USA jersey can boast a gold medal at the 2023 World Cup in Japan and a silver at the 2023 VNL, in addition to ‘Gold in the North American Championship again in 2023 and Bronze at the 2018 Italy-Bulgaria World Championship.
THE CARREER-
The career of the new central defender from Monza starts from the Bay to Bay Volleyball Club during his school years at Branham High School. In 2011 he enrolled at UC Irvine University (California), while in 2012 he moved to the University of Hawaii where he was moved from the role of opposite spiker to center. Here he achieved his best results at university level, earning his first call-up to the senior Stars and Stripes national team with which he won a silver medal at the Pan American Cup played in Tijuana, Mexico. In the 2015/16 season his first job outside the USA, called by Pallavolo Padova; He stayed in Veneto for two seasons, before moving to Lombardy to wear the colors of Powervolley Milan. In the 2018/19 championship he moved to France, to Chaumont: at the end of the season he stopped playing due to physical problems. He returns to the field for the 2020/21 season wearing the Cannes shirt, still in the French top division, with which he won the Championship. In the following season, Averill’s career continued in Poland, with AZS Olsztyn, where he remained for two years, before moving, again in the Polish top division, to Projekt Warszawa with which, in the 2023/24 season, he won the CEV Challenge Cup beating MINT Vero Volley Monza in the final.
The words of Taylor Averill-
« I am extremely happy to arrive at Vero Volley next season, I really wanted to return to Italy and Monza gave me this great opportunity. I can’t wait to get to work and meet my new teammates, as well as the warm crowd at the Opiquad Arena.
