HDC and Abercrombie crowned in Maldives and USA – FIVB

On By Littum

THE MALDIVES

HDC Male triumphed in the Milo Men’s VAM Cup 2024, Maldives’ national cup competition. In a spectacular final trophy match, they celebrated a 3-2 (20-25, 31-29, 25-20, 17-25, 15-13) victory over Dhivehi Sifainge Male. HDC’s outside hitter Ismail Sajid (image in main image; credit: Club HDC) was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) and on the Dream Team alongside setter Hussain Shahid (Dhivehi Sifainge), opposite Hussain Razzan (Dhivehi Sifainge), outside hitter Adam Naseem (Dhivehi Sifainge), middle blockers Mohamed Ahsan (HDC) and Adam Fairooz (HDC), and libero Saud Ahmed (HDC).

USA

28-year-old Brittany Abercrombie took Athletes Unlimited Pro Volleyball by storm in her debut season in the unique format of this competition in the United States, where there are no fixed teams and points are counted for each athlete individually. Abercrombie won the 2024 AU Pro Volleyball Championship after finishing with 4,521 leaderboard points, leading in all three leaderboard categories. She was not only the first opponent to win the title, but also the first non-outside hitter to be crowned champion. Two outside hitters finished on first and second in final location – Dominican Republic’s Bethania De La Cruz-Mejia with 4,142 points and Madison Kingdon Rishel with 3,400 points.