MONZA, 28 JUNE 2024 – Another piece from 90 at the court of Massimo Eccheli: Taylor Averill will be part of the central department of the MINT True Volley Monza for the 2024/2025 season. Born in Portland (Oregon) on 5 March 1992, Averill is ready to live a new experience in the Italian championship, after the seasons played with Padova (2015-2017) e Milano (2017/18). Currently engaged with the National Americanaof which he has been a member continuously since 2014, “Sunny” (this is his nickname) in the USA jersey he can boast a gold medal at the 2023 World Cup in Japan and a silver at the 2023 VNL, in addition to the Gold in the North American Championship also in 2023 and the Bronze at the Italy-Bulgaria World Cup 2018.
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.
“I am extremely happy to arrive at Vero Volley next season – Averill’s first words – 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.”
THE BOARD
Taylor Averill
Nato a Portland March 5, 1992
Height: 201 cm
Role: Central
CAREER WITH CLUBS
2010-2011 UC Irvine (USA)
2011-2015 Hawaii University (USA)
2015-2017 Volleyball Padua
2017-2018 Powervolley Milan
2018-2019 Chaumont (FRA)
2020-2021 AS Cannes (FRA)
2021-2023 ASZ Olsztyn (POL)
2023-2024 Project Warsaw (POL)
2024-2025 MINT TRUE VOLLEY MONZA
TITLES WITH CLUBS
2020/21 French Championship
2023/24 CEV Challenge Cup
TITLES WITH THE US NATIONAL TEAM
2014 Silver – Pan American Cup
2018 Bronze – World Championship
2023 Argento – Volleyball Nations League
2023 Gold – North American Championship
2023 Gold – World Cup
